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STEAM from the Heart: Connecting Making and SEL
Save the date for our next webinar! Join these lively educators as they discuss ways they've used making as a springboard for teaching SEL concepts.Learn how to focus on teaching your students to support others while making, how to solve...
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Featured Partnership: Rural Tech Fund
Featured Partnership: Rural Tech Fund We are happy to announce a new partnership with Rural Tech Fund! Through our partnership, educators who receive Makey Makey donations from the Rural Tech Fund will now receive a seat from Makey Makey in...
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Meet our Newest Team Member!
Makey Makey is a small team, but we are ready to move and forge new directions in invention literacy and maker education. That's why we are expanding our team to help us get new products to market! Meet Derek Runberg...
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Introducing our New Classes for Kids at Home!
Have a Makey Makey at home? Ready to start inventing from home? We’ve been working hard at creating a course that kids can take on their own! The first four lessons are live, but we are busy bees still...
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Social Shoutout: Look at this awesome Teacher PD!
July was full of Teacher Professional Development. Not only are we currently leading our InfyPathfinders Summer Institute, but we are seeing so many great PDs held around the country! Infosys Pathfinders Our two week long summer institute hosted by the...
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September Social Shoutouts including Tyzo Bloom covering Red Hot Chili Peppers with Chili Peppers
Musical Experiments Tyzo Bloom wowed us with his rendition of a Red Hot Chili Pepper's song with ... you guessed it! Chili peppers! (And oh snap! This is even mentioned in the Rolling Stone Magazine today!) Chili Peppers with Chili Peppers...
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#FunFactFriday: Makey Makey Word Wall and Scratch Soundboard
Today's #FunFactFriday post is written by Colleen Graves who actually writes the majority of these blog posts! LOL! But today is a reprisal post from her blog where she blogged about maker projects before coming to Makey Makey as our...
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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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GameBender Taking a New Direction
On May 24th, 2019, we announced our new company, GameBender. The soul of GameBender is our mission "The World is a Construction Kit." We encapsulated this mission over the last 4 years in GameBender OS (software that lets you create...
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Tilt Sensor: Tilting Cup Joystick
TIMING{;}45 min --- GRADES{;} 5th-12th --- SUPPLIES{;} Makey Makey Tin Foi Clean yogurt cup Alligator Clips (5) Conductive Fabric Tape Metal pushpin Steel ball bearing --- PRODUCTS{;} Makey Makey Classic Craft and Code Booster Kit --- ENDCAP{;} Get inspired and see...
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