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<h1> = <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span><br /> </h1>= <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-3515-cd4f-e26a85cf33ce"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once known as the SparkTruck, MakerTruck of Southern Methodist University is here to make an impact. The project was started as SparkTruck by a team of graduate students at Stanford. The truck was created to hold the supplies needed to teach kids about thinking, designing, making, and presenting ideas in an a dynamic environment. It is still involved in the same vision, though now with a new name and a new home.</span></span></pstyle="text-align: center;">[[File:SMU Maker Truck.jpg]]</p> = <img srcspan style="/images/8/80/SMU_Maker_Truck.jpgfont-size:x-large;" _fck_mw_filename><span style="SMU Maker Truck.jpgfont-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" alt><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" >Purpose</span></pspan><p/span><br />= </p><p><img _fck_mw_validspan id="falsedocs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-7380-afe7-5c7304e1cc3e" _fck_mw_filename><span style="Kids with" alt="" class="fck_mw_notfound" /><img src="/images/a/a7/Kids_with_Maker_Truck.png" _fck_mw_filename="Kids with Maker Truck.png" _fck_mw_type=font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"thumb" alt="Kids with Maker Truck>The MakerTruck is a tool used by the Southern Methodist University Maker Education Project.png" class="fck_mw_frame fck_mw_right" /></p><h1> </h1><div><br /></div><h1> <span style="font-size:xThough its end goal is the same, its focus is slightly different than the original SparkTruck. Where SparkTruck spent time directly working with kids, MakerTruck works with teachers. With the tools and guidance necessary, teachers are inspired and shown how to implement hands-large;"><span style="font-family:arialon Maker Education into their schools,helveticaclassrooms,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Purposeand other places of influence. Curriculum is also available to aid teachers in this great venture. As quoted from an article about the project, the director Katie Krummeck stated, “t</span></span></span><br /> </h1><p><span id="docsstyle="font-internalsize: 11pt; font-guidfamily: Arial; font-c5aec599variant-e777numeric: normal; font-7380variant-afe7east-5c7304e1cc3e"><span style="font-sizeasian: 11ptnormal; fontvertical-familyalign: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baselinebaseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MakerTruck his big truck is a tool used by kind of rolling ambassador for the Southern Methodist University Maker Education Projectmaker movement. Though its end goal is If you’re not familiar with it, the same, its focus maker movement is slightly all about sharing creative challenges with people from very different than the original SparkTruckbackgrounds to build things. Where SparkTruck spent time directly working with kids, MakerTruck works with teachers. With the The explosion in easily available digital tools and guidance necessarysoftware is fueling the fire, teachers are inspired and shown how to implement it turns out that this kind of hands-on Maker Education into their schools, classrooms, and other places of influence. Curriculum maker-based instruction is also available a great way to aid teachers engage students in this great venturewhatever subject they are learning. As quoted from an article about the project, the director Katie Krummeck stated, “t”</span></span> = <span style="font-size: 11pt; fontx-family: Ariallarge; font"><span id="docs-variantinternal-numeric: normal; fontguid-variantc5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-easte258c7156cc5"><span style="font-asianfamily: normalArial; verticalbackground-aligncolor: baselinetransparent; whitefont-spaceweight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his big truck is a kind History of rolling ambassador for the maker movement. If you’re not familiar with it, the maker movement is all about sharing creative challenges with people from very different backgrounds to build things. The explosion in easily available digital tools and software is fueling the fire, and it turns out that this kind of handsMakerTruck</span></span></span> = <span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-on makere777-based instruction is a great way to engage students in whatever subject they are learning.”</spanc767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"></span></p><h1> <span style="style="font-size:x11pt; font-largefamily: Arial;"><span id="docsfont-internalvariant-guidnumeric: normal; font-variant-c5aec599east-e777asian: normal; vertical-c767align: baseline; white-c3b2space: pre-e258c7156cc5wrap;"><As SparkTruck, this mobile makerspace was driven across the country over the course of 2 summers meeting with groups of kids and teaching them about making. </span style><span style="font-familysize: Arial; background-color: transparent11pt; font-weightfamily: 700Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History of the MakerTruck</span>SparkTruck was started as a thesis project by Stanford d.School graduate students who had a passion for hands-on learning. </span></span> </h1><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span stylestyle="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As SparkTruck, this mobile makerspace This project was driven across funded by a Kickstarter campaign called SparkLab which helped the country over students purchase the course of 2 summers meeting with groups of kids truck and teaching them about makingthe tools within to start their journey. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SparkTruck team was started as a thesis project by Stanford d.School graduate students who had a passion for hands-on learningable to visit over 2,600 students at 65 schools. </span></span> = <span style="font-size: 11pt; fontx-family: Ariallarge; font"><span id="docs-variantinternal-numeric: normal; fontguid-variantc5aec599-easte777-asian: normal; verticalc767-align: baseline; whitec3b2-space: pre-wrap;e258c7156cc5">This project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign called SparkLab which helped the students purchase the truck and the tools within to start their journey. </span><span style="font-sizefamily: Arial; background-color: 11pttransparent; font-familyweight: Arial700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SparkTruck team was able to visit over 2,600 students at 65 schools.Impact for Students and Campus</span></span></span>=</p><h1> <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="font-familysize: Arial; background-color: transparent11pt; font-weightfamily: 700Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impact for Students and CampusThe journey of the SparkTruck: </span></span></span> </h1><p><span id="docsstyle="font-internalsize: 11pt; font-guidfamily: Arial; background-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arialcolor: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The journey of In the SparkTruckend, 15,323 miles, 33 states, and 2,673 students add up to one thing: a whole a lot of stories. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the endCurrently, 15,323 miles, 33 states, and 2,673 students add up The MakerTruck is on track to one thing: make a whole a lot of storieshuge impact in Texas as SMU uses it to show teachers how to impact their students through making. This is a huge step forward for the maker-movement.</span></span style><p style="fonttext-sizealign: 11ptcenter; font-family">[[File: Arial; background-color: transparent; fontKids with Maker Truck.png]]</p><span id="docs-internal-variantguid-numeric: normal; fontc5aec599-variante777-eastc767-asian: normal; verticalc3b2-align: baselinee258c7156cc5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; whitefont-spacefamily: preArial; background-wrapcolor: transparent;">Currently, The MakerTruck is on track to make a huge impact in Texas as SMU uses it to show teachers how to impact their students through making. This is a huge step forward for the makerfont-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-movement.</spanalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span id="docsOne of the resources put together by the students behind SparkTruck is a how-internal-guid-c5aec599to guide for making a SparkTruck. People everywhere are encouraged to use this idea to further maker-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"education around the world. Find the details in the link below:</span></span><div><span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-size: 11pt; font60224701-family: Arial; backgrounde869-color: transparent; fonta4b0-variant757c-numeric8ec5fff51e3a">[https: normal; font//docs.google.com/document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3-variantXzjbho/edit <span style="font-east-asiansize: normal11pt; verticalfont-alignfamily: baselineArial; white-spacecolor: pre-wraprgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;">One of the resources put together by the students behind SparkTruck is a howfont-to guide to making a SparkTruck. People everywhere are encouraged to use this idea to further makervariant-education around the world. Find the details in the link belownumeric:</span></span></p><p><span id="docsnormal; font-internalvariant-guideast-c5aec599asian: normal; text-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="text-decorationdecoration-line: underline; fontvertical-sizealign: 11ptbaseline; fontwhite-familyspace: Arialpre-wrap; background-color">https: transparent; font//docs.google.com/document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Xzjbho/edit</span>]</span><a href="https:/div><div><br/docs.google.com></document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3-Xzjbho/edit"div>https = <span style="font-size://docs.google.com/document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3x-Xzjbho/edit</alarge;"></spanstyle="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></spanstyle="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></p>Contact Information<div/span><br /span></div><divspan><br /></div>= <h1> <span style="font-size:largermedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact InformationFind more information on our project on our website:</span></span>[http://sparktruck.org/about http://sparktruck.org/about]</span><br /> </h1><p><span style="font-size:smallermedium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow us on social media to keep up with our current projects: <b/span><big><a href="mailto[https:hello@sparktruck//twitter.org">hello@sparktruckcom/MakerEdSMU https://twitter.orgcom/MakerEdSMU]</a></big></b></span></spanspan></p><span class=="fck_mw_category" sort="">Pages with broken file links</span><br /><span _fcknotitlePage Contributors&nbsp; ="true" class="fck_mw_category" sort="Resources">Resources [[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]&nbsp; [[Sarah McLean|Sarah_McLean]] [[Rachel Deeds|Rachel_Deeds]] <br/span>[[Category:Organizations]]