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= <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span><br/> =
<span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-3515-cd4f-size:larger;e26a85cf33ce"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:arial,helvetica,sansArial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Started Once known as a thesis project by Stanford d.School grad students who have a passion for hands-on learning, the SparkTruck , MakerTruck of Southern Methodist University is here to make an impact. The project was originally launched started as SparkTruck by a Kickstarter campaign called the SparkLabteam of graduate students at Stanford. The SparkTruck has travelled truck was created to hold the country for supplies needed to teach kids about thinking, designing, making, and presenting ideas in an dynamic environment. It is still involved in the past two summmerssame vision, though now with a new name and a new home.</span></span>
= <br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></span></span><br/> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-7380-afe7-5c7304e1cc3e"><span style="font-size:larger11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MakerTruck is a tool used by the Southern Methodist University Maker Education Project. Though 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-on Maker Education into their schools, classrooms, and 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, “</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:arial,helvetica,sansArial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">The purpose “This big truck is a kind of rolling ambassador for the Kickstarter campaign was 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 collect funds needed to fill a delivery truck with cutting edge making build things. The explosion in easily available digital tools and software is fueling the fire, and it turns out that could be driven from school to school with the mission this kind of bringing making back to kids. The SparkTruck did just that hands-on maker- they were able based instruction is a great way to visit over 2,600 engage students at 65 schoolsin whatever subject they are learning. ”</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:largerlarge;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sansArial; background-serifcolor: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile hands-on learning for kids! Project backed by Kickstarter meant to empower students and teachers to find their creative potential. History of the MakerTruck</span></span></span>=
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="font-size:larger11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:arial,helvetica,sansArial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">The journey of the SparkTruck: was started as a thesis project by Stanford d.School graduate students who had a passion for hands-on learning. </span><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804)11pt; font-family: Arial; colorfont-variant-numeric: rgb(86, 86, 86)normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; linevertical-heightalign: 23.999998092651367pxbaseline; textwhite-indentspace: 23.999998092651367pxpre-wrap;">In This project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign called SparkLab which helped the end, 15,323 miles, 33 states, students purchase the truck and 2,673 students add up the tools within to one thing: a whole a lot of storiesstart 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 able to visit over 2,600 students at 65 schools.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sansArial; background-serifcolor: transparent; font-sizeweight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: largerpre-wrap;">More information: Impact for Students and Campus</span>[http:</span></sparktruck.org/about http://sparktruck.org/about]span>
<span style="font-size:large;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><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 journey of the SparkTruck: </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 end, 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;">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 maker-movement.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><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;">One of the resources put together by the students behind SparkTruck is a how-to guide to making a SparkTruck. People everywhere are encouraged to use this idea to further maker-education around the world. Find the details in the link below:</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; 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;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3-Xzjbho/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Z7kaBYsU90LmA8ozaXfqet6cNtDtORswRG3-Xzjbho/edit]</span></span>
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