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Welcome our Newest Team Members!
Our little team is growing! We wanted to take a few minutes to introduce two of our newest team members and just for an extra special treat, we decided to have them interview each other. Photo caption: Arvan and the...
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New Project November: Design a Controller for Make a Sketch
Have you seen our new apps?!?!?! The new Makey Makey Apps are the culmination of years of learning and play at JoyLabz. We took our tried-and-true piano app that was created when Makey Makey was first introduced, and we took...
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Pathfinders Online Summer Institute 2022
We are so excited to once again partner with the Infosys Foundation USA to provide professional development to teachers this summer! Deadline to apply : May 15 Round 1:Return Acceptance Letters by May 1st Round 2: Return Acceptance Letters by May...
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Free Resources and Online Professional Development for Teachers
New to Makey Makey? Makey Makey® makes it easy to integrate STEM into your curriculum in ways that will be fun and engaging for students. Makey Makey can be used in any subject area to help students grasp new concepts through...
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A Live Q&A with Doll-E 1.0 Author Shanda McCloskey
Join us for our first ever student-focused webinar! Teachers, we are inviting you to bring your class to this webinar to hear from Shanda McCloskey, the author of the best selling book Doll - E 1.0. Your students will be...
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Featured Educator: Josh Burker and Margaret Pastel
We love the innovative ways that educators (in both formal and informal learning spaces) introduce learners to the concept of physical computing with Makey Makey and coding languages like: Scratch, Processing, and Python. Each month, we like to feature an...
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Top Blog Posts of 2018!
Top Blog Posts 1. Makey Your Own Interactive Exit Ticket/Voting Machine Colleen was challenged on Twitter to make an informal exit rating machine for teachers. Check out this post describing the challenge and how other teachers are hacking this guide. 2. Introducing our...
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Inspirational STEAM Projects from Educators!
Looking for inspirational ideas to use in your classroom? Here are some open ended and engaging projects we've seen teachers employ in their own classrooms! Game Controllers Code a game and build a game controller. The more divergent the controller...
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Assistive Technology, Occupational Therapy, and More Accessibility Resources
We've seen a lot of great Makey Makey work centered around the topic of accessibility and assistive technology devices. More and more occupational therapists are starting to gamify their work. Schools are also seeing the importance of combining empathy alongside invention literacy....
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Design, Making, and Teaching with Doll-E 1.0
Have you read Doll-E 1.0? It's a great picture book to inspire making! Plus, it features Makey Makey in the illustrations. You'll have to read it to find the dog playing a banana piano! Simply GENIUS! Makey Makey (and banana)...
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