Prompt questions regarding everyday objects and appliances.

Make discoveries about sound through building and using a variety of instruments.

Explore properties of light by creating moving scenes with objects.

Move quickly through the process of design, testing, and redesign. 

Learn basic carpentry exercises designed to give young students the know-how to safely use a variety of tools. 

Quick projects with simple materials that engage students in basic circuitry.

Create wearable, flexible projects, and think critically about the flow of electricity.

How do light and sound travel, and how are they used for communication?

Learn computational thinking concepts and practices, like brainstorming, designing, engineering, and programming.

Learn the building blocks of computer programming and explore concepts like angles and shapes.

MEMs provide a welcoming environment to share successes, get feedback on upcoming projects, troubleshoot ongoing issues, and mingle outside of our respective organizations.

To help schools and other organizations prepare for and bring their creativity to Mini Maker Faires.

To help schools and other organizations prepare for and bring their creativity to their own School Maker Faires.

Guidelines to help schools and other organizations prepare for and bring their creativity to the Maker Faire.

Thinking routines are easy to use, easy to remember, easy to transfer, and vividly effective when used on a wide variety of topics.

A project guide template that is useful for educators and facilitators who are new to making or new to a particular project.

Having a Mini Makerspace built into the classroom has inspired rich, project-based curriculum in the 1st grade.

Building a scribble machine is an exercise in design, experimentation, persistence, and observation.

Adaptable to different grade levels and materials, from cardboard to wood and nails, scraps to fabric, conductive thread and LEDs.

Make discoveries about electricity and current by creating connections between different types of circuit blocks.

Introduce students to natural occurrences such as earthquakes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and wildfires.

Sewing activities can be a great way to teach math skills, including patterns, measurement and geometry.

Linkages are a versatile project that introduces mechanical motion and are a fun way to connect to STEM learning.

As simple as stapling together sheets of paper, or as elaborate as creating an ornate book cover and intricate binding patterns.

Using simple materials, students will design and build their own visions of what a hand should be.

Turtle Art is free software that lets users design and draw using simple programming commands.