"Don't be bored…make something."
"Don't be bored…make something." These words were spoken by Joey Hudy, the youngest intern in the history of Intel who at the age of 16 was hired by their CEO, at the Higher Education Maker Summit at ASU-Tech Shop in Chandler, AZ. It was inspiring to hear from all maker-engineers, maker-musicians, maker-designers, maker-authors, and who I will call maker-evangelists at this national event. What was neat was that this conference coincided with the last session of the first part of a STEAM Machines club I started at my school made possible through a generous grant from ASU that included $3000.00 worth of 'maker' supplies for middle schoolers to dream, create, and iterate Rube Goldberg machines. The whole experience from start to finish was full of 21st century skills in action with teams of students collaborating and communicating to create their machines, solving problems through critical thinking and application of physics concepts all along the way. Most reward...