Make:
LEARNING LABS
WHAT IS IT?
A 400-hour program that can be customized and modular to fit the needs of your community, Make: Learning Labs is a transformative education program that guides young adult learners and educators into doing multidisciplinary real-world projects using technology.
Develops agency, problem-solving, project management, critical thinking, and technical skills. Each cohort is a building block in a network of like-minded communities and mentors.
WHY MAKE:
LEARNING
LABS?
LEARNING
LABS?
NOT IN SCHOOL
74% of the Z generation believe in skills-based education, 64% said the best place to learn is in hands-on labs.
VALUE OF COLLEGE
For the last 12 years, wages of college graduated have been decreased more than wages of high-school graduated.
SKILLS NEEDED
Entrepreneurship and workforce skills develop complex problem solving, effective collaboration, and perseverance.
WHY YOUR
COMMUNITY
NEEDS MAKE:
LABS?
First, learners run a one-day project to know different types of technologies. Different guests share their projects, and each participant choose a mentor.
Design thinking, scrum and communicating skills are practiced by creating a first self-motivated real-world problem prototype.
Then, participants choose three different specializations.
Experts from around the
world offered options like: Python for data science and Machine Learning, Biotechnology, IoT and arduino or Web development and javascript.
For five weeks, participants work on their own creations, in teams or individually.
All prototypes are tested with real users, get real feedback, phase technical challenges, and pivoted from initial ideas. It was them all the way, finding what was meaningful to create.
