NACCE Makerspace Webinar - Wed., March 27 9 am PST 

 Join us for the NACCE Member Webinar - Utilizing Makerspaces to Grow Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystems with CCC Maker guests. NACCE is graciously opening this webinar to those interested in the maker movement and attending make/SHIFT.

If you want to provide your students with real world entrepreneurship and makerspace education, join us at the make/SHIFT Makerspace Ecosystem Summit in Irvine CA from April 24-26. Hear best practices, connect with a national ecosytem and find new partners among  statewide and national educators, K-12 and community college leadership, foundations, industry representatives and policy makers. CCC Maker and the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) are hosting this national conference to share ways to inspire students to find their career paths and develop skills that prepare them for exciting workforce opportunities.

We look forward to connecting with you. Register today at make/SHIFT Summit.

Recent CCC Maker initiative activities included:

• The CCC Maker Accountant, Technical Assistance Providers and leadership team have been visiting colleges, conferring with teams and offering webinars to guide them to a successful finish of the initiative on May 31.
• Several CCC Maker colleges are currently offering Makermatic team internships to 15-25 students per campus. An evaluator is working with the teams to assess the project and provide insights to others considering using CCC Maker's model for a makerspace-based cohort internship with a business partner. The Makermatic team internship coach's guide is being updated and will be ready to share at make/SHIFT.
• CCC Maker is producing videos representing the diverse approaches CCC Maker colleges are taking to build their makerspace communities as well as collecting insights from advisory committee members and makerspace education leaders: Dale Dougherty, Stephanie Santoso, Van Ton-Quinlivan and Willy Duncan.
• Entrepreneurial and makerspace education speakers  have been confirmed and will be sharing their expertise at make/SHIFT, a national Makerspace Ecosystem Summit, in Irvine California on April 24-26. 
• Students from across the CCC Maker network submitted 56 student project videos produced in their college makerspaces. Of those, 12 were selected to share their projects during the make/SHIFT reception and poster session. In addition, CCC Maker college teams will be displaying at the poster session and answering questions.
• CCC Maker is making plans for Maker Faire Bay Area, May 17-19 in San Mateo. The initiative will host a stage on Friday afternoon from 1-4 with student project demonstrations and presentations to showcase the impact of community college makerspaces. The initiative will also have a booth during this internationally recognized maker event.

College Makerspace Activities 

College of the Canyons hosted the So Cal Makerspace Festival on March 23 in Santa Clarita, CA.

Moreno Valley College iMAKE Mobile with the City of Moreno Valley is assisting small business entrepreneurs with technical knowledge using a rapid prototype space for innovative design work.

Moorpark College student workers shared their expertise in button making, 3Dprinting & stickers to introduce MakerSpace to high school students during Career Technical Education (CTE) High School day.

Sacramento City College shared student projects, Makermatic internship and other makerspace programs attracting over 500 students visits per month with Van Ton-Quinlivan, Executive Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Workforce and Digital Futures, California Community Colleges, who said she was "so proud to have a sponsored a community of engaged learners."

Folsom Lake College Innovation Center added new tools and equipment to the makerspace recording studio and hosted events so students could tour the space and jam with music makers.

Sierra College Makermatic interns met at Hacker Lab powered by Sierra College to develop and present a solution to a real life business challenge guided by business leader, Kevin Cobb, principal, AP Architects, with Denise Bushnell, Business and Information Technology faculty member.

Hartnell College had a visit from Bruce Woolpert's Algebra Academy teaching the math behind electric circuits.

Cabrillo College Makermatic interns are being guided to explore a business challenge by Calfee Design.

Mt. San Jacinto College made 1:10 scale model of the Eagle Makerspace to help with planning how to incorporate virtual and augmented reality gear, fabric arts and a ThinkerSpace for project planning.

T o see college blog posts go to  resources on the CCC Maker website .

Cabrillo College Interns Represent Many Majors

Cabrillo College expects to place 60 students in CCC Maker internship experiences by May 31, 2019, explained John Graulty, Ed. D., Dean of Visual, Applied, and Performing Arts at Cabrillo College and makerspace team leader. "Currently 33 Cabrillo Makerspace interns are in the process of completing or have already completed 20-60 hour paid internships since March 2018," said Graulty. "The interns represent the 19 diverse majors."

Although many interns come from Art, Engineering and Digital Media, the other majors represented include Biology, Business, English, Fire Tech, Geography, Kinesiology, Psychology and Sociology, among others, according to Graulty. "This diverse set of majors represents even more diversity than we anticipated being served by the makerspace and its CCC Maker internship program," said Graulty. "This is a great testament to non-siloed 21st century education in the service of placing students in unique jobs of the future."

CCC in the News

Santa Maria Times (March 23, 2019) Origami, 3D printing capture creativity at Santa Maria library's makerspace program by Kenny Cress 

NACCE Community College Entrepreneurship (Winter/Spring 2019) New Makerspace Summit on Tap pg. 10

Campus Technology (March 12, 2019) Makerspace Summit Coming to SoCal in April By Dian Schaffhauser 

Noozhawk (March 9, 2019) Hancock College, Keys 2 the Coast Offer Innovative Internship - Students work to solve real-world business challenges by Donna Polizzi 

SCVTV (March 5, 2019) March 23: SoCal MakerSpace Festival at COC  

Gold Country Media (March 4, 2019) Loomis Soroptimist Club Education Awards empower women - Carol Pepper-Kittredge recognized with Ruby Award

Citizen Schools (February 11, 2019) Makerspace Ecosystem Summit for College Educators April 24-26 in Irvine, CA by Kaniah Dunn

Important Dates

March 27, 2019 - NACCE  Member Webinar - Utilizing Makerspaces to Grow your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with CCC Maker guests. NACCE is graciously opening this webinar to those interested in the maker movement and attending make/SHIFT. (Use the link in the first article above.)

March 30, 2019 Maker Ed Community Studio Launch Party in Berkeley 10 AM - 1 PM (makered.org)

April 5, 2019 Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Carol Pepper-Kittredge, CCC Maker, will be speaking at Fabricators Shop Talk in Irvine CA (ifai.com)

April 5, 2019 CSU Maker Convening - Call for Proposals deadline (make.sonoma.edu/csumaker) 

April 10-12, 2019 US Fab Lab Conference Bethlehem PA (usfln.org)

April 15, 2019 CCC Maker college N arrative and Fiscal reports  through March due 

April 24-26, 2019  CCC Maker & NACCE  make/SHIFT Makerspace Ecosystem Summit, at the Irvine Hotel in Irvine CA (Register at NACCE.com)

May 2-4 Wonderful Idea Creative Coding Workshop in Berkeley, CA (wonderfulidea.co/creative-coding-pd)

May 17, 2019 1-4 PM CCC Maker Culminating Celebration at the Maker Faire in San Mateo

May 17-19, 2019 Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo (makerfaire.com/bay-area/)

May 30-31, 2019 California State University Maker Convening at Sonoma State (make.sonoma.edu/csumaker) 

June 13, 2019 Final Narrative and Fiscal reports due, with reporting of expenses through May 31, 2019, as well as match report