In our past few trips to Maker Faire we’ve been enjoying a shift, not only is the maker movement growing, but it’s the maker kids movement is growing too! We’ve already shared the kid-focussed projects that we’re most looking forward to from this year’s faire (you can see them here). We love to celebrate making and inventing in kids, you could say it’s our raison d’etre.
The Importance of Making
Why do we think making is so important?
We started Technology Will Save Us when we found a laptop in the trash and thought it was crazy that someone would throw a working piece of technology away. It really highlighted the role that tech has in our everyday lives and our relationship with it. We don’t really understand it, yet it pervades everything.
We asked ourselves the question, what if people understood the world of tech around them, what if by getting their hands on it, and making themselves that they developed a keener bond, rather than a dependency on it.
Dale Dougherty creator of Make Magazine said “[in the past] kids had lots of opportunities to make. We’re getting back to that.”
Kami Wilt, organizer of the Austin Mini-Maker Faire, also supports this thinking. “People are realizing — or remembering,” she said, “that it is satisfying and meaningful and empowering to make things ourselves, to achieve mastery with skills and in areas of interest, and to be able to take an idea all the way from just a spark to fruition.”
The Future
The maker movement is growing and the world of creative tech tools was on the rise, we felt there was a need for a business that would empower the creator generation and empower parents while inspiring kids to make and be productive with tech in a fun and hands on way.
by MindMake via MindMake Blog
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