About

The future needs people who can creatively Make.

The Makery is a pop-up Makerspace - part shop & part workshop. A movable and temporary venue where youth and adults are encouraged to be curious, to tinker, to experiment, and to make with technology. The Makery is a portable digital playground, a place where communities can gather to play with the creative power of digital design and fabrication, physical computing, and computer programming.

While the Makery has no permanent space...yet, we aim through a series of pop-up makerspaces, to experiment and design new experiences and workshops that explore the joy and power of making with technology. Someday soon, we hope to have our own homebase from which we can grow and share. But until we do, look for us to pop up in your community soon.

Got a few minutes? Watch this TEDx Talk and/or this short film about making Makerspaces, inspiring STEAM, and The Makery.

F.A.Q.s
Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Makerspace? A Makerspace is a center where people get together to make things. While not just for young people, makerspaces are proving to be a fun, hands-on approach to getting young people into technology and sciences. In a makerspace, you’ll find traditional design tools in addition to advanced digital fabrication tools.

What is the Maker Movement? In 2005 O'Reilly created Make Magazine and launched the 1st Maker Faire in 2006. It has inspired people from all the around the world to become Makers. The maker culture is a technology-based extension of the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) culture.

What’s special about The Makery? As valuable as SAT prep is learning to Make, and having the option of a workshop where young people can discover, invent and create. There currently aren’t many makerspaces for youth. Most schools do not have such facilities nor programs. At the Makery, students are introduced to the Maker’s approach. They will explore engineering-oriented pursuits, problem-solving, and develop their own projects driven by their own interests and talents. Through these projects, students explore and expand their core STEM competencies.

Why STEM? STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education creates creative critical thinkers, increases science literacy, and creates the next generation of innovators. Innovation leads to new products and processes that sustain our economy. This innovation and science literacy depends on a solid knowledge base in the core STEM areas.

What type of stuff can I do at at the Makery? Activities at the Makery are participant driven. We will give demonstrations, show examples, and have students pick activities. For instance, students will have the opportunity to design 3-D models on the computer, and make them with the Makerbot 3-D Printer. They will learn to solder simple circuits together, and write basic computer programs. Students can also design and fabricate their own customized stickers, and silk screens for t-shirts.

What is physical computing? Physical computing means building interactive physical systems with electronics. The Arduino microcontroller system is a low cost, open-source approach to physical computing. Students can design their own robots, video game controllers, interactive toys, mp3 players, or anything that they can think of.

What is a Makerbot 3-D Printer? MakerBots are affordable, personal fabrication tools, compact enough to sit on a desktop. MakerBot users produce physical objects from strands of melted plastic filament, an activity described as 3-D Printing or "Makerbotting." The increasing availability of low-cost personal fabrication tools has the potential to transform the way we think about design education and local production.

Will you do a pop up makerspace in my community or venue? Feel free to contact info@nycmakery.com about us bringing our pop-up makerspace to your area. Our longer term goal is to create a more permanent storefront and makerspace.

Are adults allowed to participate in the workshops? Adults can participate, but must be accompanied by children :)

How do I register my child for a Pop-Up workshop or class? You can follow this link to our Eventbrite page: http://bitly.com/nycmakery You can choose to sign up your child for any combination of full week, full day, or afternoon sessions.

Is there are early drop off / late pick up? In case you need to drop your child off early, or pick your child up later, we can accommodate on a case by case basis for an extra fee.

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Team
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Our founding team is an experienced group of makers and educators passionate about the creative power of technology and making. Our workshops and classes also pull in the talented members of the HTINK cooperative.
Corbett Beder
Corbett Beder
Prior to co-founding HTINK, Corbett was the Senior Director of R&D at Vision Education & Media, an academic enrichment organization that provided after school programs and curriculum development in science and technology. For the past eight years, his projects have included teaching high school digital video, middle school video game design, and LEGO Robotics throughout the New York and New Jersey area. He has worked as a consultant for the NYC DOE on a number of innovative technology programs and was recently accepted to the NYC Teaching Fellows program.
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Jaymes Dec
Jaymes Dec
Jaymes Dec is the Technology Integrator and Fab Lab Administrator at the Marymount School of New York. Previously, Jaymes was Program Manager at GreenFab, a high school program for students from the South Bronx that taught Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills through classes on sustainable design and green technologies. A graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, Jaymes has taught makers of all grade levels between kindergarten and graduate school.
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An operations guru, maker, imagineer and all around awesome person.
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Jon Santiago
Jon Santiago
Jon Santiago works with schools, cultural institutions and community based organizations to create after school programs that are hands-on, engaging, and promote knowledge in STEM. As co-founder of HTINK, Jon has helped start Young Maker programs throughout the New York tri-state area. He has also worked with MakerBot Industries to develop 3-D printing curriculum and professional development workshops for teachers. Jon graduated from the MIT where he worked with the FabLab program,a global initiative to bring digital fabrication laboratories to communities around the world.
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Hsing Wei
Hsing Wei
Hsing Wei is a designer, convener, and tinkerist. She enjoys developing technology-enriched experiences that solve problems, connect communities, and enable novel ways of interacting with the world. After wandering the halls of Penn, MIT, and Harvard, she has been on the start up team of various innovative games-based learning and digital learning initiatives, such as Quest to Learn and EDesign Lab, which seek to integrate emerging digital contexts, center on the student as creators, and extend learning outside of classroom walls.
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HTINK
HTINK
HTINK is an educational services cooperative with a mission to spread technical learning and creative problem skills. Its Young Maker programs create and support informal learning environments in the NYC area for students to learn about design and tinkering. In addition to working with traditional hand tools, students also learn about how the physical world interacts with the virtual world through electronics and physical computing. It encourage self-directed learning, where students have extensive input about the projects they pursue after gaining core skills.
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Contact

Got questions?

Have an idea, feedback, or want to collaborate? Feel free to email us: info@nycmakery.com

Stay tuned as we hope to go beyond Pop-Up.