Travis Sluss

In 2011, we welcomed our first twelve students through the door of our 350 square foot space. There was no word yet for what we were building. "Makerspace" had barely entered the vocabulary of American education. What we had was a conviction: that kids learn best when they build things, break things, and figure out why. Our first location, back in 2011 🥹 Fifteen years later, more than 1,500 students learn with us every week, through our own locations and through the schools, libraries, and...

MakeInspires Team Building at LinkedIn Last week, the MakeInspires team had the opportunity to bring one of our favorite hands-on challenges into a completely new environment: LinkedIn’s Hack Week in NYC, hosted inside the Empire State Building. Instead of laptops and whiteboards, teams gathered around LEGO robotics kits, tasked with designing, building, and programming a working catapult. The goal was simple: collaborate, iterate, and see whose creation could launch the farthest and most...