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. 

CCC Makerspace Startup Guide Published
Request your copy of the CCC Makerspace Guide.
Project Updates June 2018
Recent CCC Maker initiative activities included:
  • The Technical Assistance Providers (TAP) have met with each CCC Maker college to go over work plans in advance of grant contracts being renewed for the final year July 2018-May 2019.
  • CCC Maker and several colleges - Cabrillo College, Glendale College & Hacker Lab powered by Sierra College -- had booths at the Maker Faire Bay Area held in San Mateo on May 18-20. Many students and college teams worked in the CCC Maker booth and faculty and students hosted tables and presented during the Industry, College & Career Day.
  • The CCC Maker Initiative and two CCC Maker Colleges -- Folsom Lake College and Allan Hancock College -- were selected to present at the International Symposium of Academic Makerspaces (ISAM) on August 3-5 at Stanford University.  Sacramento City College submitted a video for consideration as well.
CCC Makerspace Startup Guide Released

In early June, the CCC Maker Initiative published The California Community College Makerspace Startup Guide -- Preparing Students for Jobs of the Future. Based on the first year of experience guiding 34 colleges through the planning process, the guide was developed to help other colleges, schools and communities benefit from building a maker community to provide hands-on and entrepreneurial skills sought by employers.

According to Dale Dougherty, CEO, Maker Media and chair of the CCC Maker Advisory Committee, community colleges are in the unique position to democratize making by giving students in the largest and most diverse education system in the country access to makerspaces. "Students develop the ability to learn, adapt and change when they join a maker community," said Dougherty. "As students create projects that reflect their interests and abilities, and share it with students from other disciplines such as art, engineering or business, it can change the nature of their lives. They gain a sense of agency to learn, earn and live a good life." 

The California Community College Makerspace Startup Guide is intended to help other colleges make these same opportunities available to their students. Go to the Startup Guide page on CCC Maker to request a copy of this open-source publication.
College Makerspace Implementation Stories 

Mt San Jacinto College established a Cell Culture Lab as a unique main feature of the Eagle MakerSpace where they would like to simulate a biotech manufacturing environment.

City College of San Francisco is working with SF Made to connect students with jobs in the local manufacturing industry.

Moreno Valley College has completed the first steps in the conversion of the STEM Mobile Innovation center iMAKEMOBILE, a mobile makerspace which is designed to serve as a rapid prototype design space.

In anticipation of Mother's Day, San Bernardino Valley College hosted its first community event to promote the IE Accelerator. Participants designed mugs with personalized vinyl designs as well as handmade cards for their mothers.

Sierra College, Hacker Lab and Sierra Makerspaces hosted more than 40 attendees, including 25 disabled adults, at an assistive technology build-a-thon led by Makers Making Change and Communication Technology Education Center.

The College of Alameda students are making 3D printing parts for robotic teams and for DJ booths, as well as bottle openers, practice models, gaming equipment and even some organization tools for the campus Fab Lab.

Through a Packard Foundation grant, Hartnell College Makerspace is collaborating with the Alisal Center for the Arts so college students can teach youngsters from the community how to use 3D printers for prototyping and introduce them to the maker movement.

Folsom Lake College has the goal this summer to make sure that each staff member is comfortable on each fabrication process and machine so students are cross training each other. Everyone is excited by what they can make with the new Baby Lock embroidery machine.

To see college blog posts go to resources on the CCC Maker website.
CCC Maker Shares What We've Learned About College Makers

Conferences:
  • At the Maker Faire Bay Area - Industry, College & Career Day - on May 18, Tom Cappelletti, Sacramento City College and Maura Devlin-Clancy, City College of San Francisco presented on Making at Community Colleges. Several CCC Maker college students were also brought on stage by Dale Dougherty to share their stories or were given a shout out from the stage.
  • The movie, Making a Makerspace, produced by Sacramento City College, was shown at the Infosys CrossRoads  Conference on May 21-24 in Scotts Valley, CA.
  • Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Statewide Director, CCC Maker, gave a keynote presentation about how CCC Maker built a network of college makerspaces at the California State (CSU)  University Maker Convening held at CSU Sonoma on Friday, June 1, 2018.  
  • Salomon Davila & Deborah Bird presented for CCC Maker on the Makerspace Track at the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers (NCATC) Summer Workshop 2018 on June 4 & 5 at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita.
  • CCC Maker was well represented at the Nation of Makers Conference on June 8-10, 2018 in New Mexico. Dale Dougherty, CEO, Maker Media and chair of the CCC Maker Advisory Committee, was a keynote speaker and he showed the Sacramento City College movie, Making a Makerspace. Another CCC Maker Advisory Committee member, Stephanie Santoso, is a founding board member of the Nation of Makers and was part of the conference organizing committee. Zack Dowell, Folsom Lake College and CCC Maker Advisory Committee member, and Brie Lindsey, California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) and CCC Maker symposium organizer, were there too. Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Statewide Director, and Technical Assistance Providers, Deborah Bird and Salomon Davila, represented the initiative leadership team.
Important Dates

July 13 - CCC Maker 4th Quarter 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 (Early registration fees through June 15)

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 - CCC Maker presentation
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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