Maker Corps was designed to meet the demand for human capacity in youth serving organizations eager to embed making into their programs. The program was launched in 2012 at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America Conference as a commitment to train and place over 1,000 Corps members across al...
Please see the below website for more information: http://www.union.edu/offices/human-resources/jobs/hourly/7204-makerspace-coordinator---2-year-position.php
Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is an open competition supporting breakthrough solutions to the world's most intractable development challenges—interventions that could change millions of lives at a fraction of the usual cost. http://www.usaid.gov/div
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR enables...
USAID has created a constellation of seven Development Labs that harness the intellectual power of great American and international academic institutions and that catalyze the development and application of new science, technology, and engineering approaches and tools to solve some of the world's...
About this Proposal On December 3rd 2014, a group of signatory schools who supported 'Fostering a Generation of Makers' White House Maker Faire campaign gathered in Washington DC to discuss next steps. This generated incredible ideas and insight as we moved another step forward in defining a Mak...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has joined with several U.S. Government (USG) supported agencies to support Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER). Administered by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), PEER is a competitive grants program tha...
About this Proposal On December 3rd 2014, a group of signatory schools who supported 'Fostering a Generation of Makers' White House Maker Faire campaign gathered in Washington DC to discuss next steps. This generated incredible ideas and insight as we moved another step forward in defining a Mak...
As the youth development program of the Cooperative Extension System of land-grant universities, 4-H is the nation’s largest youth development organization, empowering six million young people throughout the United States. Cooperative Extension of 1862 and 1890 land-grant universities provide th...
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) is another program that expands funding opportunities in the federal innovation research and development (R&D) arena. Central to the program is expansion of the public/private sector partnership to include the joint venture opportunities for small bus...
http://www.nationalyouthsummit.org/maker-conference/
About this Proposal On December 3rd 2014, a group of signatory schools who supported 'Fostering a Generation of Makers' White House Maker Faire campaign gathered in Washington DC to discuss next steps. This generated incredible ideas and insight as we moved another step forward in defining a Mak...
Intellectual Property Awareness Assessment Tool http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/assessment/index.html General Information Concerning Patents http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/generalinfoconcerning_patents.jsp Pro Bono (Free Legal Representation) http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/proseprobono/ ...
We invite you to submit an abstract to the Eighth Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education which will be held at the campus of Union College in Schenectady, New York. We welcome abstract submissions on any topics that relate to how engineering integrates into a liberal arts education, and h...
The Maker VISTA Project focuses on urban and rural areas that have been deemed high poverty and have little access to the Maker Movement as a STEM initiative. The project will foster maker programming year round in 10 communities across the nation, using community-school outreach strategies to en...
About this Proposal On December 3rd 2014, a group of signatory schools who supported 'Fostering a Generation of Makers' White House Maker Faire campaign gathered in Washington DC to discuss next steps. This generated incredible ideas and insight as we moved another step forward in defining a Mak...
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What is Maker Corps: Maker Corps was designed to meet the demand for human capacity in organizations eager to embed making into their youth-oriented programs. In the past two years, Maker Ed has served more than 140,000 children and families by placing over 200 Maker Corps Members in 50 organiza...