Learn Supercharge Your Summertime At Maker Camp
We’re pleased to stimulate got Dale Dougherty, founder in addition to publisher of MAKE magazine in addition to Maker Faire, bring together us today to beak nearly Maker Camp—a free, online summertime military camp for teens on Google+. Last year, to a greater extent than than 1 1000000 campers joined in, in addition to this summertime is looking fifty-fifty brighter. Maker Camp volition officially boot off at eleven a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EDT today inwards a alive Hangout On Air from San Francisco’s Exploratorium in addition to volition larn on for the adjacent half dozen weeks. - Ed.
Camping has long been a summertime tradition that calls us to explore the outdoors, engage inwards fun activities in addition to brand novel friends. Overnight camping ground powerfulness involve setting upward tents in addition to gathering to a greater extent than or less a campfire, spell twenty-four hr menses camps tin lav focus on areas of involvement such every bit chess, computers, robotics or sports (we’ve worked alongside a lot of these at Maker Media). Yet no affair what variety of military camp it is, or where it takes place, military camp has to hold out fun in addition to social.
Maker Camp is a whole novel variety of camp: an online summertime military camp that is completely complimentary in addition to opened upward to everyone. Maker Camp takes house wherever yous are, yesteryear letting yous practise fun activities in addition to percentage them alongside others through the Google+ platform. You’ll brand cool projects, larn on epic virtual “field trips” in addition to run into awesome makers.
This is Maker Camp’s instant summer, in addition to the format is similar: Each weekday morning, we’ll postal service a novel projection or activeness on our Google+ page—30 things to brand over half dozen weeks. Each weekday afternoon, melody inwards to a alive Google+ Hangout On Air to run into goodness makers who create amazing things. And similar terminal year, our Field Trip Fri Hangouts volition accept yous to novel places that few of us larn to see. For instance, we’re excited to accept yous to NASA Ames Research Center adjacent week, in addition to this calendar week we’ll hold out checking out 1 of the world’s fastest sailboats, from Oracle Team USA.
We’ve added a few things to brand this year's Maker Camp fifty-fifty better. There's a novel Google+ Community for Maker Camp, then it volition hold out fifty-fifty easier for yous to chat alongside other campers in addition to regard what they’re working on. We too stimulate got a network of affiliate camps (we telephone band them “campsites”), then yous tin lav create in addition to brand together inwards your local library, youth lodge or makerspace. If there’s a campsite close you, you’ll honor it on this map. We’ve worked alongside Google to render many of these campsites alongside maker equipment similar soldering kits, LEDs, Raspberry Pi boards (mini Linux computers), in addition to Arduino microcontrollers (good for making robots in addition to other gadgets).
Maker Camp hopes to foster the DIY (do-it-yourself) spirit inwards immature people. We desire each camper to regard how much at that spot is that yous tin lav practise in addition to how much at that spot is to explore all to a greater extent than or less you. Once yous laid about doing things, you’ll run into others who percentage your interests, in addition to yous tin lav collaborate to function on projects together. We telephone band that DIT (do-it-together). Google+ is a platform for that variety of collaboration, in addition to it extends to whatever location in addition to whatever fourth dimension zone. And when Maker Camp comes to an end, you’ll stimulate got friendships that terminal beyond summer.
Maker Camp powerfulness non hold out surrounded yesteryear trees or close a lake, exactly it has many of the wonderful features of camping. For instance, yous tin lav intend of your reckoner every bit the campfire that nosotros get together around, in addition to alongside to a greater extent than than a 1000000 campers, our virtual campfire is pretty big! Plus, similar whatever camp, you’ll larn the most out of Maker Camp yesteryear participating. Meet other makers, larn involved inwards conversations, practise things you’ve never done earlier in addition to most of all, brand something!
What each of us tin lav practise is pretty amazing, withal what nosotros tin lav practise together is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than amazing. In that spirit, I invite yous all to bring together us at Maker Camp, starting today. Just follow Make on Google+ to join, in addition to let’s brand this the best summertime ever.
Camping has long been a summertime tradition that calls us to explore the outdoors, engage inwards fun activities in addition to brand novel friends. Overnight camping ground powerfulness involve setting upward tents in addition to gathering to a greater extent than or less a campfire, spell twenty-four hr menses camps tin lav focus on areas of involvement such every bit chess, computers, robotics or sports (we’ve worked alongside a lot of these at Maker Media). Yet no affair what variety of military camp it is, or where it takes place, military camp has to hold out fun in addition to social.
Maker Camp is a whole novel variety of camp: an online summertime military camp that is completely complimentary in addition to opened upward to everyone. Maker Camp takes house wherever yous are, yesteryear letting yous practise fun activities in addition to percentage them alongside others through the Google+ platform. You’ll brand cool projects, larn on epic virtual “field trips” in addition to run into awesome makers.
This is Maker Camp’s instant summer, in addition to the format is similar: Each weekday morning, we’ll postal service a novel projection or activeness on our Google+ page—30 things to brand over half dozen weeks. Each weekday afternoon, melody inwards to a alive Google+ Hangout On Air to run into goodness makers who create amazing things. And similar terminal year, our Field Trip Fri Hangouts volition accept yous to novel places that few of us larn to see. For instance, we’re excited to accept yous to NASA Ames Research Center adjacent week, in addition to this calendar week we’ll hold out checking out 1 of the world’s fastest sailboats, from Oracle Team USA.
We’ve added a few things to brand this year's Maker Camp fifty-fifty better. There's a novel Google+ Community for Maker Camp, then it volition hold out fifty-fifty easier for yous to chat alongside other campers in addition to regard what they’re working on. We too stimulate got a network of affiliate camps (we telephone band them “campsites”), then yous tin lav create in addition to brand together inwards your local library, youth lodge or makerspace. If there’s a campsite close you, you’ll honor it on this map. We’ve worked alongside Google to render many of these campsites alongside maker equipment similar soldering kits, LEDs, Raspberry Pi boards (mini Linux computers), in addition to Arduino microcontrollers (good for making robots in addition to other gadgets).
Maker Camp hopes to foster the DIY (do-it-yourself) spirit inwards immature people. We desire each camper to regard how much at that spot is that yous tin lav practise in addition to how much at that spot is to explore all to a greater extent than or less you. Once yous laid about doing things, you’ll run into others who percentage your interests, in addition to yous tin lav collaborate to function on projects together. We telephone band that DIT (do-it-together). Google+ is a platform for that variety of collaboration, in addition to it extends to whatever location in addition to whatever fourth dimension zone. And when Maker Camp comes to an end, you’ll stimulate got friendships that terminal beyond summer.
Maker Camp powerfulness non hold out surrounded yesteryear trees or close a lake, exactly it has many of the wonderful features of camping. For instance, yous tin lav intend of your reckoner every bit the campfire that nosotros get together around, in addition to alongside to a greater extent than than a 1000000 campers, our virtual campfire is pretty big! Plus, similar whatever camp, you’ll larn the most out of Maker Camp yesteryear participating. Meet other makers, larn involved inwards conversations, practise things you’ve never done earlier in addition to most of all, brand something!
What each of us tin lav practise is pretty amazing, withal what nosotros tin lav practise together is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than amazing. In that spirit, I invite yous all to bring together us at Maker Camp, starting today. Just follow Make on Google+ to join, in addition to let’s brand this the best summertime ever.