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If you were with us in July/August, you know that FAB15 Egypt was a GREAT success and that Fab Lab Egypt, Fab Lab New Cairo, SAN3ATECH, and Giza Systems Education Foundation were terrific hosts! Above is a picture of the amazing FAB15 organizing team and volunteers.
We are so grateful to our core partners on the FAB15 Collectively Independent organizing team – especially Dina, Noor, May, Merhan, Joe, Omar(s), Mahmoud, Layla, Lara, Moustafa, Hesham, Francisco, Luciano, Jean-Luc, Norella, Anastasia, Fiore and the fantastic, too-many-to-be-named-here, supporting fabbers from across Egypt and around the world – for the extraordinary production of FAB15. It was beautiful, it was from the heart, it came from the community, and it was so meaningful and so relevant. “Thank you, thank you. شكرا Shukraan Egypt!”
Emerging from the week of working groups and workshops was forward momentum on active programs and collaborations for fablabs.io, Fab City, SCOPES-DF, Academany (Fabricademy and Fab Academy), Fab Foundation Forum and many more! And the conference workshops as well as our guest speakers were FABulous.
Please put FAB16 #FAB16Canada on your calendars, currently scheduled for the last week in July, 2020. Stay tuned for future updates from Montreal. For information on past FABx Events please visit: http://fabevent.org/
You can view all of the official photos from the FABulous week HERE or click on the banner below!
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FAB FOUNDATION HAS A NEW WEBSITE!
The Fab Foundation website has a new look and feel! Released during FAB15, here are some exciting new additions:
- Fab Lab Network section, with fablabs.io, Fab Resources and Fab Foundation Forum
- Global Initiatives, such as Fab Events, Fab Research, Fab City and Fab Economy
- Networks can now add their latest news by clicking here
- We now have a research library! You can find papers, websites and various documents related to education, research and economic development for fab labs, makerspaces and the Maker Movement. Check it out here!
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| CHEVRON STEM EDUCATION AWARD WINNERS |
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Congratulations to Fab Lab Yucatán in Mexico, Fab Lab Pronto 3D in Brazil, Prac-Science Lab in Ghana, and BITlab at Bullis School in the United States for being the 2019 Chevron STEM Education Award winners!
This year we received 40 submissions from across the global network for the Chevron STEM Education Awards. The cash prizes ranged from $1,000 (3rd Place) to $5,000 (1st Place).
Chevron has partnered with the Fab Foundation since 2016 to celebrate educators using STEM and digital fabrication for student learning. There have been over 160 submissions for the STEM Awards to date, and historically Chevron has awarded $40,000 to educators who create lessons and activities for their students and share them with the Fab Foundation network worldwide.
You can view all of the winning lessons on the SCOPES Website Special Collection!
We’d also like to thank our expert group of international judges who reviewed submissions and helped to select the winners. Our judges included inaugural winners of the STEM award and several fabbers and educators: Cicely Day (Fab Lab WCCUSD), Roberto Delgado (TECSUP), Robert Garita (IbTECHar & QBIC Fab Lab), Bridget McKendry (Fab Lab Christchurch & Fabriko Ltd.), Cesar Garcia Saez (Makespace Madrid), Henry Sanchez (DIGITOYS) and Sue Williamson, EdD (STEM School Chattanooga).
Thank you to our wonderful judges and partners at Chevron! |
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MESS WRIGHT WINS THE 2019 FOREST SCIENTIFIC
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD
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BIG CONGRATULATIONS go to Mess Wright for winning the 2nd Annual Forest Scientific Entrepreneurship award at FAB15, an award that recognizes entrepreneurial skills and innovation in communities across the US. Mess is the founder of WorkChops, a makerspace for problem-solvers and lifelong learners as well as various other STEM organizations and projects. You can check out the WorkChops website here.
And a big thank you to John Martincic and Forest Scientific for your super support of the community! |
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Congratulations to all our Academany Graduates 2019
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FABRICADEMY
START DATE: September 24th, 2019
Apply HERE to join a lab near you: textile-academy.org/join! 🌍
💥Let’s disrupt the future together!
Fabricademy is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on new technologies applied to the textile industry, ranging broadly from fashion to wearables markets. This 6-month educational program is offered in select laboratories across the world. If you are interested in an exciting journey at the intersection of textiles, digital fabrication and biology please join us by registering for the 2019-2020 Fabricademy class!
Click here to find out more about Fabricademy and see some of our student final projects!
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FAB ACADEMY
We’re happy to announce that Applications to become a Host Node for Fab Academy 2020 are Now Open.
Fab Academy is an amazing course that requires big commitments from students and host sites alike. To be a Fab Academy Node is a special opportunity, and one that requires the the physical space and infrastructure to host the course, as well as an extraordinary instructor to teach the course. Fab Academy Nodes need well-trained people in order to offer Fab Academy, and this training comes from graduating from the program itself. In other words, to instruct Fab Academy you need to have taken Fab Academy.
If you think you have the space, the infrastructure, the guru talent and the desire, please register your Fab Academy Node by filling this out this FORM. We hope you can join us for this next Fab Academy cycle!
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Fab Labs Win MaTCH Competition
The U.S. Small Business Administration has just announced the winners of the Makerspace Training, Collaboration and Hiring (MaTCH) Pilot Competition, and three spaces from our network are grantees! MaTCH is a $1 million competition that “seeks to address the job skills and placement gap faced by U.S. businesses by providing funding to create or expand programs within existing makerspaces that offer job-specific and soft skills training”.
Congratulations to Fab Lab Tulsa, Fab Lab Puerto Rico and NextFab and all of the other winners of the competition for this incredible achievement! Special shout out to grantee Workshops for Warriors – supported by our partner SolidWorks / Dassault Systemes.
For more information on the award and a full list of grantees, see here |
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SCOPES-DF
Engagement & Program Manager | Full Time
The Fab Foundation is seeking an Engagement & Program Manager for the SCOPES-DF project (Scaling a Community of Practice for Education in STEM through Digital Fabrication). SCOPES-DF was launched to catalyze STEM learning in primary and secondary educational environments through digital fabrication technologies and practices found in a Fab Lab or Makerspace.
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START-UP Namibia
Manager Position | Full Time
Management of a Start-up Incubation and Innovation Centre with Regional Outreach Units. T he German Government, through GIZ, supports the Namibian Government to improve conditions for the establishment and growth of start-ups in selected regions in Namibia.
Read more here
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Electronic Expert | Part-Time Help
HalaSystems is looking for part-time help in September to assemble and test custom electronics prototypes and configure small batches of IoT devices. The work consists of putting circuit boards, switches, connectors, and wiring into electronics enclosures. Then, the devices need to be tested and verified that they work correctly. We also have a batch of off-the-shelf devices that need to be loaded with security credentials through a web interface. The estimate for all this work is 30-40 hours. Hala is offering competitive pay for this position, and the work is local to Massachusetts.
Please email here if you are interested. |
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If you would like for your lab, activity or event to be featured as part of this newsletter, please send your information to communications@fabfoundation.org so that we can share your story with the #FabLabNetwork |
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