by Terri Willingham | Oct 16, 2014 | civic engagement, Creativity, Libraries, Makers, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
The Eureka! Factory has been chugging full STEAM ahead since Maker Faire Orlando, with more great projects and programs coming off the creative conveyor over the next few days. This past weekend, our 2nd annual ROBOTICON FIRST Showcase , sponsored by Bright House...
by Terri Willingham | Sep 10, 2014 | Libraries, Makerspaces, paradigm shifts, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
The journey to bringing the John F. Germany Library makerspace to life – a space now known as The Hive – has been a bumpy and sometimes complicated one, as new and untried journeys can be. It can be hard to create something no one’s seen before, in...
by Terri Willingham | Aug 22, 2014 | Civil Rights, Creativity, knowledge, Makers, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
They worked as riveters, buckers, sanders, welders, crane operators, bus drivers, uniform makers, bullet makers, parachute folders, clerical workers, assembly line workers, Red Cross and so much more. They were teenagers, young adult to senior citizens. They came...
by Terri Willingham | Aug 2, 2014 | art, Creativity, education, Life, Makers, Society, TEDx, Theresa Williingham, travel, Uncategorized
Life is short and you need to do what you wanna do, what you have a passion for… The thing is you gotta dream big and that’s all there is, you just gotta dream big… Ritch Branstrom While on a trip to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan recently, we stayed at a...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 24, 2014 | Creativity, education, Life, Makers, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
Tinkering is a minor risk taking activity without any great consequence; it is not goal directed nor are there defined outcomes. There are no key performance indicators for tinkering. Thus, tinkering is suspended from the pressures of defined goals and time limits....
by Terri Willingham | Jul 21, 2014 | Creativity, Makers, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
There’s a very interesting dialectic between science and science fiction. If you take a look at, for example, Edwin Hubble, the greatest astronomer of the 20th century, he was destined to be a Missouri country lawyer. He remembered reading Jules Verne as a...
