Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
This Youth-Led Session presented by Lake Forest Country Day School was recorded on Thursday, October 17, 2024, during the Charter for Compassion's Global Youth Conference.
Middle school students shared how they created Mobile Makerspaces in their community and how attendees could develop similar programs. Participants viewed a case study of a successful community outreach program led by an Innovation Club. They brainstormed ways to create similar programs to share innovation, technology, or other strengths of their schools or institutions with the broader community.
At Lake Forest Country Day School, a pre-K through eighth-grade school in the United States, the community outreach program was developed to bring tools and materials from the school’s Innovation Space to the broader community. Through this program, nearly 20% of the middle school students had at least one experience facilitating makerspaces in the community. More importantly, access to materials for other youth-focused nonprofits in the area was significantly increased, including Roberti Community House, the Boys & Girls Club of Lake County, and Pillars Community Health-Constance Morris House.
In this session, the presenters shared the origin of their innovation program, how it worked, and how partnerships with community organizations were built. They focused on their Mobile Makerspace events. When running Mobile Makerspaces, around a dozen middle school students took a mini-bus to a community partner’s after-school or weekend program. Each student ran a “maker station” on a topic they were passionate about. Some past stations included sewing machines, vinyl cutters, woodworking with hand tools, and drone flying. They also discussed their conference presentations, having presented at IDEACon (the largest educational technology conference in the Midwest) and Maker Faires. They shared how they adjusted their work for different formats and effectively communicated their story to wider audiences.
The presentation concluded by providing the audience with the opportunity to workshop their own outreach ideas as a group. Participants were split into breakout rooms to ideate the strengths of their schools or organizations that could be brought to the broader community. Attendees generated several outreach ideas and initial plans to find community partners.
Learn more about the Youth Conference here: charterforcompassion.org/global-youth-conference-2024/global-youth-conference-2024.html
#CFCYouthConf
This Youth-Led Session presented by Lake Forest Country Day School was recorded on Thursday, October 17, 2024, during the Charter for Compassion's Global Youth Conference.
Middle school students shared how they created Mobile Makerspaces in their community and how attendees could develop similar programs. Participants viewed a case study of a successful community outreach program led by an Innovation Club. They brainstormed ways to create similar programs to share innovation, technology, or other strengths of their schools or institutions with the broader community.
At Lake Forest Country Day School, a pre-K through eighth-grade school in the United States, the community outreach program was developed to bring tools and materials from the school’s Innovation Space to the broader community. Through this program, nearly 20% of the middle school students had at least one experience facilitating makerspaces in the community. More importantly, access to materials for other youth-focused nonprofits in the area was significantly increased, including Roberti Community House, the Boys & Girls Club of Lake County, and Pillars Community Health-Constance Morris House.
In this session, the presenters shared the origin of their innovation program, how it worked, and how partnerships with community organizations were built. They focused on their Mobile Makerspace events. When running Mobile Makerspaces, around a dozen middle school students took a mini-bus to a community partner’s after-school or weekend program. Each student ran a “maker station” on a topic they were passionate about. Some past stations included sewing machines, vinyl cutters, woodworking with hand tools, and drone flying. They also discussed their conference presentations, having presented at IDEACon (the largest educational technology conference in the Midwest) and Maker Faires. They shared how they adjusted their work for different formats and effectively communicated their story to wider audiences.
The presentation concluded by providing the audience with the opportunity to workshop their own outreach ideas as a group. Participants were split into breakout rooms to ideate the strengths of their schools or organizations that could be brought to the broader community. Attendees generated several outreach ideas and initial plans to find community partners.
Learn more about the Youth Conference here: charterforcompassion.org/global-youth-conference-2024/global-youth-conference-2024.html
#CFCYouthConf
