An email announcement about the National Week of Making came through the LAIP inbox recently, and we want to spread the word! The Office of Science & Technology is promoting this White House initiative, and we wanted to share the following from OSTP’s Assistant Director of Making, Andrew Coy:
We are looking forward to having you join forces with us from June 17th through the 23rd and would love for as many others as possible get involved. Here are a few ways folks in the community are already active:
- Posting a photo about the #NationOfMakers – lots of folks are already active online and there are even some community-created images created by Adam Bellow that can be found below.
- Organizing an event and/or host an open house at your local school, library, rec center, makerspace or set up a hangout online to connect and share your inventions with Makers across the country. Some have posted their events on a community website such as weekofmaking.org
- Volunteering to be a mentor for someone who is interested in learning a new skill or find a mentor who would be interested in teaching a new skill you’ve been wanting to learn for a while.
- Organizing a maker roundtable, maker town hall, or maker tour to convene thought leaders and decision makers in your community. (An example of this is what Adam Savage did last week in Cleveland: http://bit.ly/1N3g6oB – which was organized by Adam’s team at Tested in collaboration with Lisa Camp from Case Western Reserve University and Sonya Prior-Jones of the Fab Foundation out of MIT – Adam is actually talking about it live today during a Reddit AMA you can follow here: redd.it/4hv3an)
- Your idea here!
Stay updated at http://ift.tt/1sBdyF9 and follow the community conversation online at #NationOfMakers and #WeekofMaking.
We know there are SO many libraries out there who do amazing maker things (see just a few of them here on the LAIP!). We can’t wait to hear what you’re up to during the #WeekofMaking in June!
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