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== Goals for Makeathon   ==

To run a successful Makeathon, several goals should be outlined. What are you trying to accomplish and why?  *Develop passion and hands on skills with tools and other machinery *Connect with resources and other participants invest *Invest in people have *Have a good experience and want participants to come back the next year to mentor/help *Have it be less about competition, but more about learning/form , forming relationships/have , and having fun *Diversity Gather a diversity of Students students across all majors get faculty and admin to advertise to students  *Safety *Funding *Advice/realization next steps for courses to take and professors to talk to

There is a lot of planning that needs to happen beforehand and as well as a number of factors to take into consideration. <u>Fundingand Advertising</u>*Supplies and other equipment tools

*Use Eventbrite for ticketsand also keep track of how many are officially attending*Advertise for a long period of time=to gain more participants*Spread by word of mouth*Make posters around campus size 11x17*Create facebook event, and use money to spread word*Class vistisvisits&nbsp;

<u>Rules<br/u><u>Rules</u>

*<u></u>Experience not required, all makers welcome

*Must be a student attending our the school (liability issueotherwise)

<br/><u>Create Theme</u>

<br/><u>Where The Session Should be Located</u><u></u>

<u>Materials Needed<br/u><u>Materials Needed</u>

*<u></u>Pipe cleaners

To have it run as smoothly and as successful as possible, a good schedule should be planned so that there is enough time for the participants to think, plan, build and present their ideas in front of the judges.&nbsp; <u>Dates and Times</u><u>< *Weekend long (Friday - Saturday or Sunday)*Give them an open ended task, dont make anything too specific, let them build anything they want to!*Friday - form teams, mingling, music, food, meet new people, brainstorm, learn prompt, choose what they build*Saturday - mentors/u>professors help with the build, student volunteers tell them where supplies located, judging takes place at end of day*Allow enough time for prototyping and brainstorming 

Two different types of judging can be done, depending on your preference. *<u></u>Students create 5 pwpt powerpoint slides based on a templateand then present in front of the judges

*Decide who There will be judges? (Mentors. professors?)*Vote a vote for the crowd favorite?*Will   A few things to also take into consideration. Who will be the judges(if you choose to go with the powerpoint option) and what will the prize be(or will there even be prizes for the winnera prize)? It should be more about learning-noted that, usually, a competition like this without a big prize will attract more studentsbecause they are more interested about learning than winning.

*Give students What happens after the Makeathon is over? If particpants enjoyed it, let them know what kinds of classes they should think about taking in the future to pursue their passions. Students should be given advice and help on what their next steps should be. It'll benefit them, and make them want to become back again next year.   Written By: [[Cheyenne Raker|Cheyenne Raker]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Sheehy Matt Sheehy], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andrew_Torrance Andrew Torrance], BG Akshaya, [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matthew Belford], [[Stephen Annor-Wiafe|Stephen Annor-Wiafe]] *courses to take in the future etc[[Category:Experiments]]