Welcome to
Family Makers
The Family Makers project provides a research-informed model for online educational programming at public libraries. Through a research-practice partnership with rural libraries, we co-design a culturally-relevant online engineering programming for rural children (ages 5-10 years) and caregivers.
Project Goals
Identify assets and challenges for engineering
Identify assets and challenges that rural families and library staff experience for engaging in engineering learning
Develop Family Makers Programming
Co-design and refine Family Makers engineering curriculum by implementing two iterations across rural libraries
Disseminate Family Makers Programming
Disseminating the Family Makers curriculum through webinars and a pre-conference workshop at the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL)
A look into Family Makers
Meet the researchers and learn more about Family Makers! Discover how this project will strengthen the capacity of rural libraries to foster children's creativity and problem-solving skills in a fun and engaging way.
The Family Makers Project is made possible in part by the National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-252377-OLS)
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
