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.
What is the Family Makers Program | Participant Testimonials
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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 Team
Researchers from Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUI) and the University of Cincinnati
collaborate with seven rural libraries and engineers from rural communities.
Together, we form a dynamic partnership dedicated to our shared mission.
IU Indianapolis &
U of Cincinnati
Rural Libraries
Engineers
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
