We are very excited to announce that we have been selected for the fourth cohort of MakerEd’s Making Spaces Hubs! We join a group of 10 hubs—including two community makerspaces, three K–12 school systems, three higher education institutions, and three museums—working over a 30-month professional learning and capacity-building program designed to develop local leadership around maker-centered learning and build a foundation to embed change in three core areas (pedagogy, community, and culture) while emphasizing sustainability and growth.

We are grateful to Cognizant’s Making the Future initiative for sponsoring Moonlighter and seven other Cohort 4 Hubs, and Google for their continued investment in the programming at Maker Ed.

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It has been a busy Summer for Makers — with so many incredible programs, events, and developments — we’re just so excited to share it all with you! From Summer Camps to Combat Robot events to National Maker Challenges… Summer has been non-stop!

Summer STEAM Maker Camp 2019

Moonlighter Makerspace hosted 10 weeks of maker camps for 7–12 year olds. With a new challenge each week, our young makers had to design and build their ideas using critical thinking, creativity, and a range of cutting edge technologies!

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On a warm and breezy evening in Miami, a group of people came out from a workshop with joy and fulfillment on their faces. They were one step closer to finish building a small fleet of IoT flood trackers that will help tackle the rising sea level issue in Miami.

Rising sea levels affect everyone in Miami — whether it is a storm flooding that forces business to shut down or daily tides hindering students from the school or the retreating coastline that forces people to abandon their homes to seek higher ground, rising water levels are a big issue. By 2045, the sea level is projected to rise about 15 inches and put a fifth of Miami underwater at high tide, according to US Army Corps of Engineers data (SFRCCC 2015).

Building the trackers took place over a series of workshops, letting community members build loT solutions to the water problems facing their community. The project is driven by the city government (City of Miami), local maker communities, and highly motivated citizens involved in Code for Miami.

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Maker Faire Miami 2018

Our third annual Miami Makers Pavilion continues its tradition of celebrating the collaborations of local makers and STEAM organizations — all coming together to build a better Miami!

This is the second year that Maker Faire Miami is a Full Featured Faire — but it is celebrating its 5th year since it started. We’ve participated each year and helped organize it in the steering committee, but we felt like there was a need to bring people together to do something special that highlights the synergies in the Miami Maker Commmunity. Three years ago we began the Miami Makers Pavilion to help coordinate local makers, STEAM organizations, and startups in a collaborative showcase that celebrates the diversity of talent we have in South Florida. This year was the largest showcase yet!

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National Week of Making in Miami

For National Week of Making, Moonlighter was filled with unique educational programming to get beginners as well as experts in their industries to come together and MAKE! This year, NWoM coincided with our Summer S.T.E.A.M. Maker Camp. This program is designed to get young students excited about STEAM fields and learn to create with technology. We had just finished a session on Design Thinking where we imagined Vehicles of the Future.

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