= <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></span></span><br/> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-7380-afe7-5c7304e1cc3e"><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;">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, ““t</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;">“This his big truck is a kind 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 hands-on maker-based instruction is a great way to engage students in whatever subject they are learning.”</span></span> <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;"></span></span>
= <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5aec599-e777-c767-c3b2-e258c7156cc5"><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;">History of the MakerTruck</span></span></span> =