Supercharge Your Summertime At Maker Camp
We’re pleased to conduct maintain Dale Dougherty, founder too publisher of MAKE magazine too Maker Faire, bring together us today to beak nearly Maker Camp—a free, online summertime military camp for teens on Google+. Last year, to a greater extent than than 1 1000000 campers joined in, too this summertime is looking fifty-fifty brighter. Maker Camp volition officially boot off at eleven a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EDT today inwards a alive Hangout On Air from San Francisco’s Exploratorium too volition instruct on for the adjacent 6 weeks. - Ed.
Camping has long been a summertime tradition that calls us to explore the outdoors, engage inwards fun activities too brand novel friends. Overnight camping ground powerfulness involve setting upward tents too gathering approximately a campfire, piece 24-hour interval camps tin john focus on areas of involvement such every bit chess, computers, robotics or sports (we’ve worked amongst a lot of these at Maker Media). Yet no thing what variety of military camp it is, or where it takes place, military camp has to live on fun too social.
Maker Camp is a whole novel variety of camp: an online summertime military camp that is completely complimentary too opened upward to everyone. Maker Camp takes house wherever y'all are, yesteryear letting y'all utilisation fun activities too percentage them amongst others through the Google+ platform. You’ll brand cool projects, instruct on epic virtual “field trips” too encounter awesome makers.
This is Maker Camp’s bit summer, too the format is similar: Each weekday morning, we’ll post a novel projection or action on our Google+ page—30 things to brand over 6 weeks. Each weekday afternoon, melody inwards to a alive Google+ Hangout On Air to encounter skillful makers who create amazing things. And similar final year, our Field Trip Fri Hangouts volition accept y'all to novel places that few of us instruct to see. For instance, we’re excited to accept y'all to NASA Ames Research Center adjacent week, too this calendar week we’ll live on checking out 1 of the world’s fastest sailboats, from Oracle Team USA.
We’ve added a few things to brand this year's Maker Camp fifty-fifty better. There's a novel Google+ Community for Maker Camp, too hence it volition live on fifty-fifty easier for y'all to chat amongst other campers too regard what they’re working on. We too conduct maintain a network of affiliate camps (we telephone phone them “campsites”), too hence y'all tin john create too brand together inwards your local library, youth social club or makerspace. If there’s a campsite nigh you, you’ll honor it on this map. We’ve worked amongst Google to furnish many of these campsites amongst maker equipment similar soldering kits, LEDs, Raspberry Pi boards (mini Linux computers), too Arduino microcontrollers (good for making robots too other gadgets).
Maker Camp hopes to foster the DIY (do-it-yourself) spirit inwards immature people. We desire each camper to regard how much at that spot is that y'all tin john utilisation too how much at that spot is to explore all approximately you. Once y'all laid out doing things, you’ll encounter others who percentage your interests, too y'all tin john collaborate to function on projects together. We telephone phone that DIT (do-it-together). Google+ is a platform for that variety of collaboration, too it extends to whatever location too whatever fourth dimension zone. And when Maker Camp comes to an end, you’ll conduct maintain friendships that final beyond summer.
Maker Camp powerfulness non live on surrounded yesteryear trees or nigh a lake, only it has many of the wonderful features of camping. For instance, y'all tin john mean value of your calculator every bit the campfire that nosotros get together around, too amongst to a greater extent than than a 1000000 campers, our virtual campfire is pretty big! Plus, similar whatever camp, you’ll instruct the most out of Maker Camp yesteryear participating. Meet other makers, instruct involved inwards conversations, utilisation things you’ve never done earlier too most of all, brand something!
What each of us tin john utilisation is pretty amazing, withal what nosotros tin john utilisation together is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than amazing. In that spirit, I invite y'all all to bring together us at Maker Camp, starting today. Just follow Make on Google+ to join, too let’s brand this the best summertime ever.
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Camping has long been a summertime tradition that calls us to explore the outdoors, engage inwards fun activities too brand novel friends. Overnight camping ground powerfulness involve setting upward tents too gathering approximately a campfire, piece 24-hour interval camps tin john focus on areas of involvement such every bit chess, computers, robotics or sports (we’ve worked amongst a lot of these at Maker Media). Yet no thing what variety of military camp it is, or where it takes place, military camp has to live on fun too social.
Maker Camp is a whole novel variety of camp: an online summertime military camp that is completely complimentary too opened upward to everyone. Maker Camp takes house wherever y'all are, yesteryear letting y'all utilisation fun activities too percentage them amongst others through the Google+ platform. You’ll brand cool projects, instruct on epic virtual “field trips” too encounter awesome makers.
This is Maker Camp’s bit summer, too the format is similar: Each weekday morning, we’ll post a novel projection or action on our Google+ page—30 things to brand over 6 weeks. Each weekday afternoon, melody inwards to a alive Google+ Hangout On Air to encounter skillful makers who create amazing things. And similar final year, our Field Trip Fri Hangouts volition accept y'all to novel places that few of us instruct to see. For instance, we’re excited to accept y'all to NASA Ames Research Center adjacent week, too this calendar week we’ll live on checking out 1 of the world’s fastest sailboats, from Oracle Team USA.
We’ve added a few things to brand this year's Maker Camp fifty-fifty better. There's a novel Google+ Community for Maker Camp, too hence it volition live on fifty-fifty easier for y'all to chat amongst other campers too regard what they’re working on. We too conduct maintain a network of affiliate camps (we telephone phone them “campsites”), too hence y'all tin john create too brand together inwards your local library, youth social club or makerspace. If there’s a campsite nigh you, you’ll honor it on this map. We’ve worked amongst Google to furnish many of these campsites amongst maker equipment similar soldering kits, LEDs, Raspberry Pi boards (mini Linux computers), too Arduino microcontrollers (good for making robots too other gadgets).
Maker Camp hopes to foster the DIY (do-it-yourself) spirit inwards immature people. We desire each camper to regard how much at that spot is that y'all tin john utilisation too how much at that spot is to explore all approximately you. Once y'all laid out doing things, you’ll encounter others who percentage your interests, too y'all tin john collaborate to function on projects together. We telephone phone that DIT (do-it-together). Google+ is a platform for that variety of collaboration, too it extends to whatever location too whatever fourth dimension zone. And when Maker Camp comes to an end, you’ll conduct maintain friendships that final beyond summer.
Maker Camp powerfulness non live on surrounded yesteryear trees or nigh a lake, only it has many of the wonderful features of camping. For instance, y'all tin john mean value of your calculator every bit the campfire that nosotros get together around, too amongst to a greater extent than than a 1000000 campers, our virtual campfire is pretty big! Plus, similar whatever camp, you’ll instruct the most out of Maker Camp yesteryear participating. Meet other makers, instruct involved inwards conversations, utilisation things you’ve never done earlier too most of all, brand something!
What each of us tin john utilisation is pretty amazing, withal what nosotros tin john utilisation together is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than amazing. In that spirit, I invite y'all all to bring together us at Maker Camp, starting today. Just follow Make on Google+ to join, too let’s brand this the best summertime ever.
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