[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: White House Week of Making -- quick note → save the date
Mitch Altman
maltman23 at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 27 13:45:14 UTC 2016
In case anyone wants to be involved with the White House National Week of Making, please see below:
Subject: Fwd: quick note → save the date
To: maltman23 at hotmail.com
From: mitch at CornfieldElectronics.com
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:42:46 +0100
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Subject:
quick note → save the date
Date:
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:58:16 +0000
From:
Coy, Andrew B. EOP/OSTP
<Andrew_B_Coy at ostp.eop.gov>
To:
mitch at CornfieldElectronics.com
<mitch at CornfieldElectronics.com>
Mitch,
I’m
excited to share a quick note that the
National
Week of Making will be returning this year
with celebrations to happen all over the country from
June
17-23, 2016 – be sure to
SAVE THE DATE!
You
can read the full White House announcements on the
WH
OSTP Blog or in the full
WH
Fact Sheet. Please
share out the news so everyone knows the dates, and feel
free to use the
#WeekofMaking
and/or
#NationOfMakers
hash tags.
Additionally,
here are some related links to the things the community is
already doing to support the announcements – I would love to
see even more happen, so please let me know what ideas you
might have:
·
weekofmaking.org
(community website where folks are able to post
locally-organized events)
·
makerpromise.org (the
Maker Promise collaboration website with form for
principals, district leadership, civic leaders, and others
to sign up and make the promise)
·
makerfaire.com/national (National Maker Faire website with more
information about the June 18-19 event)
·
nationofmakers.org
(Nation of Makers site supporting a number of initiatives,
such as the National Maker Faire with Maker Media or the
Maker Map)
·
ctemakeoverchallenge.com (CTE Makeover Challenge portal)
Let me
know if you have any questions or if I could help connect
you to the right folks for things related to the
announcements.
(I
have pulled out the sections on the Maker-related WH
Announcements and pasted them below my signature)
Best,
Andrew
Coy
Senior
Advisor for Making
Office of
Science and Technology Policy
Executive
Office of the President | The White House
whitehouse.gov/ostp
| acoy at ostp.eop.gov
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/09/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-doubling-techhire-communities-and-new
New Commitments in Support of the President’s
Nation of Makers Initiative & Advancing Career &
Technical Education
In June
2014, President Obama hosted
the
first-ever Maker Faire and
launched the Nation
of Makers
initiative, an all-hands-on-deck call to give many more
students, entrepreneurs, and Americans of all backgrounds
access to a new class of technologies—such as 3D printers,
laser cutters, and desktop machine tools—that are enabling
more Americans to design, build, and manufacture just about
anything.
In recent
years, the rise of the maker movement and growing community
of self-identified “makers” is a huge opportunity for the
United States. The rapid deployment of advanced tools like
3D printers, CNC machining, and tools for digital design—and
their precipitous drop in price—is empowering tinkerers,
entrepreneurs, and companies to transform an idea from a
drawing on the back of a napkin to a working prototype
faster than ever before.
These new
tools can also help recreate “shop class” for the 21st
century, giving students the types of hands-on STEM learning
experiences that spark interest in science and technology
careers and broader 21st century skills. It is also
promoting a “maker mindset”—dispositions and skills such as
curiosity, collaborative problem-solving, and
self-efficacy—with mentors and educators also inspiring the
next generation to invent, tinker, and learn vital skills in
STEM education.
Over the
past two years, the Administration has
worked
with hundreds
of K-12 schools, universities, cities, libraries, museums,
and local employers to ensure that the maker movement is
able to support and reach students and adults of all
backgrounds.
Building
on that success, today
the Administration is
announcing new federal steps and private commitments to
reach even more students and adults in the coming year:
·
The U.S. Department of
Education (ED) is launching the
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Makeover
Challenge
to encourage the creation of more makerspaces in American
high schools. The new challenge will invite high
schools to innovatively create more “makerspaces” where
students have the tools, space, and mentors to design,
build, and innovate. With a prize pool of $200,000 that will
be divided equally among as many as 10 prize recipients, the
challenge calls upon eligible high schools to design models
of “makerspaces.” These can be facilities such as
classrooms, libraries, or mobile spaces equipped with the
appropriate tools and CTE-trained educators. The winners
will be showcased to the broader CTE community as potential
models for replication, particularly in schools that serve
high proportions of low-income students. In collaboration
with the Department of Education, and complementary to the
CTE Makeover Challenge, Digital Promise and Maker Ed are
launching the
Maker
Promise, a pledge for K-12 school leaders to
support their students by dedicating a space for making,
designating a champion for making, and displaying the
results of making. Participating schools will have access to
a suite of resources that enable them to empower students to
be makers of things, not just consumers of things.
·
Urging Congress to
Reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act:
Today, the Acting Secretary of Education John King will
reaffirm the Administration’s commitment to reauthorize and
reform the
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Act, which provides middle
schools, high schools, and higher education institutions
more than $1.1 billion per year to support career and
technical education (CTE). Since 2012, the Administration
has supported a reauthorized Carl D. Perkins Career &
Technical Education Act that would ensure that all CTE
programs become viable and rigorous pathways to
postsecondary education and career success. The
Administration’s reauthorization proposal would increase the
alignment between CTE and labor market needs; strengthen
collaboration among secondary and postsecondary programs,
business, and industry; create a better system of
accountability; and provide competitive funding toward
evidence-based programs to promote innovation and reform in
CTE.
·
The White House, along with
federal agencies and the broader community, will celebrate
a Week of Making this June 17-23:
In line with the anniversary of the first-ever White House Maker Faire,
the White House will participate in a National
Week of Making this June 17-23, 2016. The
week will coincide with the National Maker Faire here in
Washington, D.C. on June 18-19, featuring makers from across
the country and will include participation of the Department
of Education, National Science Foundation, U.S. Agency for
International Development, U.S. Small Business
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, National Endowment of the
Arts, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Corporation for National and
Community Service, and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden. Additional agency activities include the
Department of Energy featured at the Bay Area Maker Faire
with the “Make: ENERGY – From Discovery to Innovation”
pavilion highlighting science and technology innovations at
the National Laboratories, and the U.S. Navy expanding its
current maker program to multiple regional centers through
creation of mobile Fab Lab trailers.
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