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Project Updates September 2017
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Recent CCC Maker project activities included:
- The TAP met with colleges to update implementation workplans & budgets and Deborah Bird says: "There's a real sense of momentum and high energy among the colleges."
- Colleges began updating their web pages and adding blog posts
- CCC Maker presented at International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces
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Colleges Start Implementing Their Plans
Moorpark College
held a pop-up Makerspace on Sept. 11 in the Campus Center.
Hancock College
held an "incredibly fruitful" Makerspace Advisory Committee meeting hosted by partner, the Santa Maria Public Library, with representatives from the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, Orcutt Academy's K-8 school, the Pacific Conservatory Theatre, STEAMTrunk, the Family Partnership Charter Schools and the college. They've scheduled another meeting for October.
Maura Devlin-Clancy at City College of San Francisco is actively using Twitter to share news that she has curated that is relevant to college maker communities as well as sharing her experiences learning how to 3D print.
Sacramento City College
held a ribbon cutting for their future campus makerspace attended by over 100 students, faculty and staff. The event was organized by eight students and four faculty members. And they convinced History and Math professors to create projects for their students and use the space.
At Foothill College's Krause Center for Innovation, students attending orientation day made circuit flashlights.
Sierra College's Early Childhood Education faculty arranged for Cheng Xueqin, Director of the Office of Pre-Primary Education, Anji County Department of Education, Zhejiang Province, China to present "Doing/Seeing/Thinking/Making: The Ecology of Anji Play," at Hacker Lab Powered by Sierra College that was well attended by community educators and broadcast live to thousands of people in China.
In the Making Social Change course at Folsom Lake College, the class talked about Indian independence, and about the emblematic role of khadi - handspun and hand-woven cloth - in the movement. Building upon the prototype Erica Tyler (Anthropology) developed, students created drop spindles using dowels, hooks, and laser cut whorls. Find more of Zack Dowell's great
curriculum ideas on his blog.
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CCC Maker Goes to ISAM
The CCC Maker project was well represented at the International Symposium on Academic Maker Spaces held at the
end of September.
Deborah Bird, Technical Assistance Provider (TAP), gave the CCC Maker presentation at ISAM with Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Statewide Project Manager and Salomon Davila, TAP. She summarized what we learned during the seed grant start-up phase. The CCC Maker paper for ISAM was authored by Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Deborah Bird and Paul DeVoe. The paper and presentation are available on the CCC Maker website.
Amy Schultz, NAACE and CCC Maker Ecosystem Service Provider, used the CCC Maker experience with Ecosystems as an example in her presentation. CCST Service Provider Brie Lindsey also attended.
Sierra College student, Savannah Turner, who is also a Stanford Innovation Fellow, created a poster on prosthetics and Jonathan Schwartz, faculty adviser, Sierra College presented her poster to conference attendees. The Sacramento City College video produced by students that chronicled the college's journey during the startup stage of CCC Maker was shown at the conference as well.
Additionally, Zack Dowell, Making across the Curriculum Service Provider and Folsom Lake College Team Leader, as well as Dominic Gutierrez, Team Leader, Sierra College attended the ISAM conference.
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Important Dates
Sept. 30 -- Deadline Seed Grant posted expenses
Oct. 13 -- Seed Grant financial reports, and Implementation July-September 2017 quarter fiscal reports are due
Nov. 16 -- CCC Maker: Building a Network of Makerspaces in California Community Colleges will be presented at the Community College League of California Annual Convention in San Jose |
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The CCC Maker initiative is funded by Grant # 16-203-001 awarded by the California Community College Chancellor'sOffice
, Workforce and Economic Development Division, to Sierra Joint Community College District.
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