Education Week – Liana Heitin
“The White House is hosting its first Maker Faire to showcase the efforts of children and adults who build, invent, tinker, engineer, craft, and create. Maker Faires, the first of which was held near San Francisco in 2006 and organized by the publishers of Make magazine, are part of a larger push for increased entrepreneurship and innovation, known as the “maker movement.” President Obama also proclaimed June 18 National Day of Making.” (more)