Making in Michigan Libraries: Call for Road Trip Hosts!

The University of Michigan (also the host of the MakerBridge blog) has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (to bring maker education to all areas of Michigan for libraries, community groups, educators, civic leaders, and more.

We’re seeking 8 host sites around Michigan (we’ll host a 9th in Ann Arbor) to help us recruit and host these three-day events in Summer 2016 (with more workshops coming in 2017).

2016 host libraries receive:

a public maker event organized by U-M project staff
a $500 stipend

We are especially eager to work with libraries in rural areas and would love to find two sites in the UP.

If your library itself lacks meeting space, but you have a community partner (like a local school) who could host the events, that’s fine.

Having done maker education work around the U.S. and in China, Australia, India, and Italy, we’re excited about being right here in our Michigan home, helping libraries and their communities think about how making can help spurn creative thinking, innovation, or just delight.

Relevant links:

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE-05-15-0021-15.

Best,

The Making in Michigan Libraries Team

Kristin Fontichiaro

Silvia Lindtner

Mayank Khanna

Image: Wikimedia (but fear not, we’re going to the Upper Peninsula, too!)