Here are two stories from up the coast in Virginia, of schools in Albemarle County that have been building a Project Based Learning curriculum for 12+ years and then did an exponential advance into the makerspace movement.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/25226286/high-school-students-show-off-3d-scanner-at-tom-tom-fest, a focused story of their makerspace festival and student creativity from their makerspace.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/24201428/albemarle-schools-maker-spaces-program-gets-national-attention, this is the bigger Albemarle story, of getting national attention, of administrators from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and elsewhere stopping by the school to see how they can use the program at the college level.
""We're interested in re-envisioning our teaching resources center, our TRC, into more of a 21st century learning commons complete with Maker Space," said Karen Wixson, the dean of the school of education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. "It's exciting that they see this space and what's done here as sort of the center of the school and that it's used by many different teachers in many different subject areas," she said. "They're more collaborative they're more engaged, so that's what excites me."Thursday, administrators from Harvard will be touring Monticello High School to learn more about Maker Spaces. Some students will also be presenting their work to members of the Smithsonian Thursday as well.”
P.S. We need more stories of makerspace developments in communities.
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