A Maker Day is a professional development event designed to foster innovation, design thinking, and creative problem solving in its participants through involvement in hands-on projects and learning workshops (Crichton and Carter, 2014). One of the most difficult parts of being an innovator and a creator is sharing work, as well as being open with discoveries. By hosting and embracing Maker Days, educators and students alike are shown to be proud of their creativity, and taught how to present their ideas.
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'''Purpose'''
#Development of design solutions
#Group collaborations
The Maker Movement is rooted in ideas from Hans Plattners Institute of Design-d.school at Stanford University, where design thinking was born ([http://vimeo.com/21568668 http://vimeo.com/21568668]).
In this day of innovation, students learn 7 steps of design thinking:
#Define#*<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Decide on an issue.</span>*Agree on an audience.*Prioritize this project based on urgency.*Determine what will make this project successful. Research#Ideate#*Review the issues’ history.*Find examples of attempts to solve similar issues.*Note supporters, investors, and critics.*Collaborate with end-users. Ideation *Determine the need and motivations of the end-user.*Generate ideas to solve the needs. Prototype#*Combine, refine, and expand existing ideas.*Develop drafts.*Test drafts with end-users.*Present working prototypes to the client. Choose#*Review the objective.*Selective the strongest idea. Implement#*Plan tasks.*Determine resources.*Assign tasks.*Execute.*Deliver. Learn (Kelley, 2004) *Generate feedback from the users.*Determine if the goal has been met.*Discuss areas for improvement.*Collect data.*Document.
And Dieter Rams’ Ten principles for a good design:
#Good design is environmentally friendly
#Good design is a little design as possible (Vitsoe, 2013),
Along with other creative seminars and group projects.
[https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/general/little-inventors-shine-at-makers-day [1]]
'''Student Contributors'''
[[Allison Antcliff|'''<span style="font-size:small;">Allison Antcliff</span>''']]
[[Princeton Perry|'''<span style="font-size:small;">Princeton Perry</span>''']]
'''<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[Nfontaine4|Nfontaine4]]</span></span>'''
<br/>'''Contact Information'''
#UBC Maker blog [http://blogs.ubc.ca/centre/category/maker/ http://blogs.ubc.ca/centre/category/maker/]
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