Bluff Park Maker Faire 2017

Being a “Maker” encompasses many talents. The Bluff Park Maker Faire was established as an authentic learning opportunity which would be personally relevant to the individual student.

The goals of the project:

• Allow for student intrinsic motivation and self-directed learning
• Facilitation of the 4 C’s: Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
• Provide students opportunities that allow then to fail in order to succeed
• Provide for student opportunities to enhance Project, Problem, Design, Inquiry, and Challenge Based Learning
• Promote student literacy through writing, reflecting, and journal writing while Making in specific subject areas
• Promote service student learning by identifying and inventing solutions to local and world problems
• Give students the opportunity to learn through kinesthetic opportunities
• Introduce students to the iterative process for problem solving
• Support student inquiry by relaying the importance of good questions and continued questioning
• Categories of Maker Projects: Inform, educate others/teach, improve lives, entertain, etc.

Pictures of projects and information to be posted by 2.20.2017.