News about California Community Colleges building makerspaces with support from the CCC Maker CCCCO grant under the Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy framework. 

Project Updates April 2018
Recent Statewide CCC Maker initiative activities included:
  • Advisory committee members met at Sacramento City College (SCC) on April 5 to discuss a statewide strategic focus for the final year of the CCC Maker Initiative. They also met the students, faculty, staff, mentors and administrators supporting SCC makerspace
  • With the California Council of Science and Technology, CCC Maker held a symposium for CCC Maker college teams on internships and work-based learning at Glendale Community College on March 16
  • Colleges are preparing quarterly fiscal and narrative reports due April 16 documenting student impact statewide through community, curriculum, internships and makerspaces
  • The TAP distributed a template for colleges to use in developing the year two of implementation budgets and work plans 
  • CCC Maker and California Council of Science and Technology are planning a statewide symposium on maker curriculum at Folsom Lake College on April 13 with reception on April 12 at Hacker Lab powered by Sierra College for the college teams
Colleges Tell Their Makerspace Implementation Stories

Foothill College's Krause Center for Innovation earned its way into the #InfyMakers Awards finals Infosys Foundation USA.

Three CCC Maker Colleges -- College of the Canyons, Allan Hancock College and Moorpark College -- are collaborating with other schools  to host a Southern California Makerspace Festival on April 28 at College of the Canyons.

At American River College, Design Hub interns demonstrated drone flying to middle school and high school students using drones that students designed, 3D printed and assembled using tools in the makerspace.

College of San Mateo announced the arrival of the Glowforge laser cutter/engraver for the makerspace in the library.

Moorpark College will host a free community maker fair on Tues., April 24 in the campus quad.

U.S. Bank offered makerspace scholarships to Sierra College business and mechatronics students who presented at a US Bank symposium and California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE) conference.

San Bernardino Valley College's Innovation & Entrepreneurship (IE) Accelerator's first round of equipment arrived including button makers for events, Cricut Makers for children's camps and a lathe for small business makers.

Folsom Lake College built furniture for the fiber arts area of the makerspace which is in the Clean Lab and houses a sewing machine, embroidery machine and Lilypad Arduino gear.

Glendale Community College's Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers sponsored the third annual Maker Faire on March 17 showcasing student STEM and maker projects.

Hartnell College launched a weather balloon at the Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit.

Woodland Community College reports that the 3D printers are the "superstars of the makerspace" and they've been holding workshops where students design a key tag in TinkerCad and then produce it using 3D printing.

Moreno Valley College offered Arduino Tech Ed Seminars to introduce students to real-world application of microcontrollers, while incorporating programming and problem solving skills. 

Butte College Create Space is collaborating with the college bookstore to promote and sell student made products and stock maker materials.

ALICE Makerspace at Golden West College hosted a day inspiring kids to "Dream Big" with Orange County Department of Education -180 middle school students, three school districts, one Design Thinking Challenge and 90 innovative backpack prototypes.

To see college blog posts, go to resources on the CCC Maker website.
CCC Maker Presentations & Published Articles

Conferences:
  • Deborah Bird presented the CCC Maker Initiative at the SAITech Conference on April 10, 2018 in Oceanside CA.
  • CCC Maker gave a presentation at CCCCOE on the CCC Maker Initiative and Guided Pathways Alignment on March 9, 2018
Recent Articles:
  • Campus Technology (April 6, 2018) California Community Colleges Mass-Producing Student Makers 
  • Moorpark Acorn (April 6, 2018) Moorpark College puts 'maker' grant to good use
  • League for Innovation in the Community College -- Innovation Showcase (April 2018) Sierra College Incorporates the Maker Mindset into Education 
  • Comstock's (April 3, 2018) Makers Wanted: As American manufacturing struggles and California employers face worker shortages, will investment in educational makerspaces help strengthen local industry? 
  • Santa Maria Times (March 30, 2018) Superhero STEAM Camp opens new opportunities for local Girl Scouts 
  • The Union (March 25, 2018) Community college grant opens doors for Sierra College students
  • PRWeb (March 16, 2018) Pepper-Kittredge Selected as Girl Scout Community Partner of the Year 
  • California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (March 15, 2018) California Community Colleges Makerspaces Make Progress in First Six Months of Implementation in Preparing Students for Careers 
  • Mountain View Voice (Feb 12, 2018) Foothill tinkers with New Makerspace
  • Los Angeles Times (February 12, 2018) GCC: Maker Faire will showcase student projects  
Links to articles are on the CCC Maker website  under About - Press.
Important Dates
April 13 - CCC Maker & CCST -- Maker Curriculum Symposium at Folsom Lake College

April 24 - Moorpark College will hold a community maker fair

April 28 - Southern California Makerspace Festival at College of the Canyons

April 29 -- MakerEd deadline for proposals for Maker Educator Convening in October

May 4 - CCC Maker Year 2 Work Plan & Budget Due

May 5 -- Cabrillo College will host the Santa Cruz Mini Maker Faire

May 18 - 20 Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo

May 23 -- Carol Pepper-Kittredge will speak on Makerspaces to STEM Careers at Infosys Foundation Outlook 202

June 9 - ISAM 2018 Student posters and video submissions are due

June 15- CCC Maker 4th Quarter Fiscal & Narrative reporting due

July 13 - CCC Maker Annual Fiscal & Narrative reporting due

Aug. 3- 5 - 3rd International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM) 2018 Co-hosted by Stanford University and UC Berkeley, at Stanford

Sept. 19-21 National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) will hold a "Making, Inventing & Entrepreneurship" conference in San Francisco.

Oct. 19-20 MakerEd 4th Annual Maker Educator Convening in San Jose
Carol Pepper-Kittredge | CCC Maker | 916-660-7801 | Email Carol | CCC Maker Website

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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