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From the K-12 Maker Lab

K-12 Maker Sessions at FAB26 on MIT Campus, July 27-31, 2026

Project spotlight: Shadow casters

Takeaways from 2020 - A Conversation with Maker Educators

Making in the classroom

Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators

Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

Sylvia Libow Martinez

Start Making!: A Guide to Engaging Young People in Maker Activities

Danielle Martin, Alisha Panjwani, Natalie Rusk

The Art of Tinkering: Meet 150+ Makers Working at the Intersection of Art, Science & Technology

Karen Wilkinson, Mike Petrich

February 4, 2014

Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student

John Spencer, A J Juliani

Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom

Ross Cooper, Erin Murphy

December 19, 2016

Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds

September 27, 2016

Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School

February 17, 2015

Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff

Curt Gabrielson

December 1, 2015

Zero to Maker: A Beginner's Guide to the Skills, Tools, and Ideas of the Maker Movement

October 31, 2017

Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration

Scott Doorley, Scott Witthoft, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

January 3, 2012

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith

August 16, 2016

Project inspiration

Paper Inventions: Simple Supplies, Creative Engineering, Extraordinary Fun!

October 28, 2025

The Big Book of Maker Skills: Tools & Techniques for Building Great Tech Projects

November 4, 2014

The Invent To Learn Guide To Fun: Makerspace, Classroom, Library, and Home STEM Projects

Imagine Design Create: How Designers, Architects, and Engineers Are Changing Our World

The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn

Colleen Graves, Aaron Graves

October 19, 2016

The Elements of Pop-Up

October 1, 1999

Makerspace layout and safety

Safer makerspaces, fab labs and STEM labs: A collaborative guide!

Kenneth Russell Roy, Ph.D., Tyler S. Love, Ph.D.

January 1, 2017

Review and Recommendations of Best Practices for K-12 STEM Learning Spaces

Jake Foster, Laura Smith

January 1, 2018

Safer engineering and CTE instruction: A national STEM education imperative. What the data tells us.

Tyler S. Love, Kenneth R. Roy, ITEEA

January 1, 2022

Electronics

Getting Started in Electronics

Forrest M. Mims III

Make: Electronics

January 1, 2021

Leah Buechley, Kanjun Qiu, Sonja de Boer (Illustrator)

January 1, 2014

Articles for teacher/administrator/community buy-in

Tinkering is Serious Play (Educational Leadership, STEM for All, 2015)

Bevan, Petrich, and Wilkinson

January 1, 2015

7 Things You Should Know About Makerspaces (EDUCAUSE, 2013)

The Maker Mindset (Dale Dougherty)

Integrating Makerspaces Throughout the Curriculum (THE Journal, 2018)

September 4, 2018

Technology Helps Schools Answer the ‘Why’ of STEAM Learning (EdTech, 2020)

January 1, 2020

Using a Makerspace for English and Humanities Instruction (Edutopia, 2019)

Lauren Huddleston

Maker Movement Reinvents Education (Newsweek, 2014)

September 19, 2014

Presidential Proclamation -- National Week of Making, 2016 (The White House, 2016)

President Barack Obama

The Growth of Making in K-12 and the Expectations for Maker Resources at Universities (ISAM, 2016)

Diane M. Brancazio, Dawn Wendell

January 1, 2016

Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time (MIT News, 2025)

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