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Build a community where mentors, mentees, teachers can connect to each other

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Build a community where mentors, mentees, teachers can connect to each other

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How to get students to your location that may not have transportation, or figuring out how to take your programming to the people

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Recommendations for how to engage local community strengths and leaders in volunteer/mentor network

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How to engage students who already spend all day in a virtual classroom setting and need to move?

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ways to incorporate academic curriculum into making withoug making it "academic" Especially important for underprivileged students

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strategies for outreach in remote rural areas

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(Mary Adams) Communications, including with policy makers . . . soften the ground to make it easier / create more opportunities to get public funding.

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(Mary Adams) Communications, including with policy makers . . . soften the ground to make it easier / create more opportunities to get public funding.

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Providing low-cost or free programming while also being able to provide lots of materials and tools to use

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Meaningfully include (and ultimately increase the number of) students and mentors from underrepresented populations in the maker-centered learning and mentorship

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Making a safe connection between mentors and students.-Sandra/CMSC

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Training educators in virtual maker education 

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Training educators in virtual maker education 

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Helping educators implement hands-on maker-centered learning through a virtual platform.

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Schools/Districts focused on ELA/Math because of standardized testing - Priorities not aligned to maker-centered learning. - Maggie

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(Mary Adams) Quantifying the impact of partnership and coalition making; takes a lot of time and certain skillset . . how show impact at a cross program, ecosystem level?

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(Mary Adams) Quantifying the impact of partnership and coalition making; takes a lot of time and certain skillset . . how show impact at a cross program, ecosystem level?

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Keeping mentor relationships going, without requiring constant oversight from lead organization

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Keeping mentor relationships going, without requiring constant oversight from lead organization

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Christy, Gorge STEM

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Mentor training & background check processes

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Mentor training & background check processes

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Christy, Gorge STEM

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Meaningful Engagement in Remote Environments

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Meaningful Engagement in Remote Environments

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Finding ways to create meaningful experiences during remote learning. -Liz

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How to engage and support students and parents virtually?  Even if there are resources to send out, how can we support them to know how to use the materials?

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developing the skills to know how to best engage a minority/underpriviledged community

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Best practices in training, on-boarding, and deploying mentors - Kelli

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Christy, Gorge STEM

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Re-engaging mentors in the new school year or even recruiting new ones when many are facing challenges of their own
Taylor S, TRSA

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Encouraging the maker mindset in activities outside a traditional makerspace. Naming as "making" the things students might already be doing (ex. cooking, fixing, building, etc.) -Cailin

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Funding and providing systems for continuity of service.

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Funding and providing systems for continuity of service.

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Connecting with mentors of a similar background to the students that we are trying to support, as well as doing so in a meaningful way (especially virtually right now) - Emilee, GCSC

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messaging and political action that help get local and state goverment support

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Upskilling Educators/Providers and making meaningful connections to lifelong skills/careers.  Emphasis on the transference to wildly important long term learning.

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Effective ways to reach rural/remote communities.

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Effective ways to reach rural/remote communities.

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Creating amazing programs in the digital Covid whirlwind and having no participants attend. Where can we advertise? How can we communicate? especially without encouraging younger kids to be susceptible to the pressures of social media.

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Operating in a virtual space can be incredibly challenging when members of our community do not have access to technology or have limited understanding of the tools.

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(Mary Adams) Fewer programming opportunities during COVID make results difficult to show in next round of funding opportunities.  Keeping the mission's supported during / after a time of more limited impact .

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(Mary Adams) Fewer programming opportunities during COVID make results difficult to show in next round of funding opportunities.  Keeping the mission's supported during / after a time of more limited impact .

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Traditional Education Model (Claire Deters)

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Traditional Education Model (Claire Deters)

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Integrating maker-centered learning into a traditional education model such as you would see at a public school. Justifying time to colleagues, quantifying and providing evidence to those that tend to think of learning only as evidenced by test scores.

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Continuum of evolving experiences to keep kids engaged.  Sean K Cincy 

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Continuum of evolving experiences to keep kids engaged.  Sean K Cincy 

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Materials and mentors that have the time to create meaningful relationships with students

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Materials and mentors that have the time to create meaningful relationships with students

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Making STEM available to all and creating clear pathways

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Making meaningful connections and engaging with students virtually -Cailin

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Emphasizing the importance of making, even in a virtual environment and finding ways for making to be more accessible at home and to educators that are already overwhelmed. -Madison

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Organizing ideas, resources, and projects.  Something like planning and business management.

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Organizing ideas, resources, and projects.  Something like planning and business management.

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Getting physical resources out to students to make in person instead of on screen to combat screen fatigue.

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Continuing to engage students in a virtual/distanced setting, safely, without overwhelming educators
Taylor S, TRSA

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Connecting students to mentors in a way that is easy for both either virtually or in-person.

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Organizations that traditionally focus in this space are experiencing reduced capacity (time & resources) & due to economic downturn due to COVID-19. -Liz

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Funding and sustainability for rural communities

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Funding and sustainability for rural communities

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Finding the resources in extremely stressed rural areas that keep us sustainable

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Making the case for Maker education (among everything else that must be covered)

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Making the case for Maker education (among everything else that must be covered)

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Christy, Gorge STEM

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Getting STEM mentors up to speed with maker-centered learning basics & best practices -Cailin

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Little to no communication with historically underrepresented or underprivileged students due to teachers/parents/school districts/out of school time providers being overwhelmed during the pandemic.

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Grant writing and identification of grant opportunities.

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Grant writing and identification of grant opportunities.

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Support around mentoring and volunteer participation locally.

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Support around mentoring and volunteer participation locally.

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Connections and engagement with funders which are supporting these efforts specific to COVID-19 and learning remotely

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Connections and engagement with funders which are supporting these efforts specific to COVID-19 and learning remotely