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Bring Maker projects into your curriculum. Empower your students to design, build, innovate, and thrive.​

​The MIT Edgerton Center K-12 Maker Lab is your resource for Maker-centered learning. We offer professional development and free online resources that train educators to integrate hands-on, creative, and tech-rich projects into any subject. Our goal is to equip students with competencies in critical thinking, perseverance, and collaboration, along with the skills to express their ideas with modern creative technologies.

Why Make?

Energize any academic subject with student-focused
​Maker projects.

Empower your students with skills in critical thinking, problem- solving, collaboration, and communication.

Inspire your students to experiment, iterate, and become self-directed learners.​

Learn to use digital fabrication, coding, electronics, and handcrafting ​effectively in your classroom.

Shopping Lists

Make shopping for your Makerspace easier with these curated lists of tools and materials that we like using in our Makerspace and PD workshops.

We are not affiliated with any seller or manufacturer and we do not earn revenue from these recommendations - we just like them for their combination of quality, price, and availability.

• Electronics​
• Craft tools
• Textiles and wearable electronics
• Vinyl/craft cutter (Cricut/Silhouette)​
• Arduino and micro:bit
• 3D printing
• Laser cutting
• ​Shop and hand fabrication

From the Make: Live stage at Maker Faire Bay Area -
​Adaptable Maker Projects in Academic Classrooms

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Get Making!

Explore our growing collection of adaptable project tutorials using basic and advanced Maker tools.

Professional Development for your school or district

Tailored training and coaching to design and deliver meaningful, engaging Maker projects

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​Maker Projects

Inspiration and teacher tools for creating your own Maker projects for K-12 academic classes.

Instructables

We develop and publish comprehensive Instructables geared towards K-12 Maker educators, but enjoyable (and doable!) by anyone.

Maker Tools

• Choose the right software, tools, and materials for your space
• Downloadable charts
• Training guides

Run a Makerspace

• Organize and run your own Makerspace
• Best practices to foster safety, communication, collaboration, student ownership, and play
• Follow a step-by-step guide to set up yours

Webinars

Watch recordings and get resources from our K-12 Maker project tutorial webinars. Kind of like a live Instructable - we will take you through the tools, materials, and techniques needed to create these adaptable Maker starter projects that you can use in your classroom.​

PD Workshops at MIT

Join the K-12 Maker experts on campus at MIT for hands-on project workshops.

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For decades before the dawn of the Maker movement, the Edgerton Center has been a home for Makers: collaborative, playful, experiential learners who believe everyone should have access to the tools for building a better world. We began by supporting MIT students as they came together and learned how to build the things they love. Over the years, we've grown to support local community members, international schools, and STEAM education organizations looking for access to tools, activities, and collaborators.
The K-12 Maker team prepares teachers to lead engaging and relevant learning experiences, giving their students the tools to create, the courage to fail, and the empathy to solve problems as a community. We do this through professional development workshops and free online resources. Teachers transform from direct instructors to facilitators of meaningful projects that utilize creative, current technologies.  
We continually improve our materials and approaches to Making in the classroom as technology and the educational landscape evolves. We invite K-12 educators to join our community of Makers and to use this webiste as a resource for setting up, operating and enjoying Makerspaces.