STE(A)M Truck in the News

Children’s School channels inner Edison with STE(A)M Truck

The Chautauquan Daily

Just a stone’s throw from where Thomas Edison slept during his visits to Chautauqua, the next great American inventor may have found their groove.

On Thursday morning, on the lawn surrounding Miller Bell Tower, groups from Children’s School took part in active and interactive discovery with STE(A)M Truck...

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Cobb students get hands on science, math experience

Marietta Daily Journal

Cobb students from lower-income schools were all smiles Monday morning as they worked together in mobile makerspaces set up in the parking lot of an Austell Home Depot. The mini-workshops consisted of trucks, tents, and a solar-paneled RV that allowed excited groups of children to roam from station to station building things with their hands...

Donna DAVIS WINS the state Innovation in Teaching award for her STE(A)M Truck project [VIDEO]

Since 2014, Community Guilds has focused on delivering an innovative, gap-closing approach to education through its mobile makerspace, STE(A)M (Science, Technology, Engineering, (Arts), and Math) Truck, targeting elementary and middle school students. The STE(A)M Truck experience is anchored by a rigorous, experiential learning-based curriculum, which is brought to life in a mobile maker-space with the support and collective expertise of the local community...

NON-Profit spotlight: STE(A)M Truck—bringing fun and learning to a school near you

Goodwill of North Georgia Blog

For many students, learning and growth are simply about access. Their minds want to explore and create; they just have to be given the opportunity. STE(A)M Truck brings that opportunity right to their fingertips with mobile-learning labs designed to ignite passion for science, technology, engineering, art, and math...

The Good Works Show: STE(A)M Truck and the National Kidney FOUNDATION [PODCAST]

The Good Works Show

Bringing STE(A)M to schools across our region [PODCAST]

White House Fact Sheet: New Commitments in Support of the President’s Nation of Makers Initiative

The White House

In June 2014, the President launched the Nation of Makers initiative, an all-hands-on-deck call to give many more students, entrepreneurs, and citizens access to a new class of technologies – such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and desktop machine tools – that are enabling more Americans to design, build, and manufacture just about anything.

Today, the President is proclaiming a National Week of Making and the Administration is announcing important progress on the Nation of Makers initiative...

STE(a)M Truck Brings Mobile Laboratory To Atlanta Schools

How do you close the classroom achievement gap between rich and poor when it comes to science and math education? An initiative called STE(a)M Truck believes you need to take the classroom out of the equation.

Victoria Ruffin and Anaya Witchett, eighth graders at Kipp Ways Academy, are working on an invention. It involves a blender – the kind you make smoothies with – a bicycle and one of those bike racks that go over the rear wheel...

This truck brings shop class and 3D printers to low-income schools

Jason Martin is an elementary school teacher who's passionate about STEM. He wants curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering and math in every school in America. But many public schools simply can't afford it.

"There's an opportunity gap in public education," said Martin. "Schools in low-income neighborhoods just don't have the resources to add a shop class or a maker lab."

So Martin decided to take those classes to the students. His STE(A)M Truck travels to schools in the Atlanta area...

Kids design camera for teen videographer born without arms

Haley Horn is an independent, media savvy teen from rural Metter, Georgia, with well-defined dreams for her future. She wants to be an actress, and perhaps sing. She likes to record herself, and dub her own voice over her favorite anime characters. She enthuses about the strides she's made already.

"I actually did write a script a couple of months ago for doing voices of the anime 'Kuroshitsuji,' or 'Black Butler,' characters and making videos," said Haley, 13. "I can edit them and switch into different voices for different characters."...

STE(A)M Truck LiVe on ATL&CO/11Alive [VIDEO]

It's time to put education on the move. [VIDEO]

3-D Printing, Now Mainstay of Maker Movement, Helps Entrepreneurs Innovate

Elementary and middle school students in the metro Atlanta area have been participating in mobile makerspace activities through STE(A)M Truck, part of Community Guilds, a nonprofit organization established in 2013 by Jason Martin. A former teacher and educational research and evaluation specialist in the charter schools division of the Georgia Department of Education, Martin says that after realizing the Race to the Top education initiative did not lead to the structural changes it projected it would (he references teaching techniques, classroom setup and grouping kids by ability or interests), he wanted "to disrupt and support public education."...

22 Years Later, Metro Atlanta Alum Continues Impact And Innovation After Corps Experience

Teach for America

An old 1988 Chevrolet P-30 truck with less than 5,000 miles on it became the first tangible representation of Jason Martin’s paper concept to build a mobile innovation lab. The goal: bring a working lab to communities and schools for increased exposure of science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) experiences. He would call the program, STE(A)M Truck.

“The rumor was [the original truck] was a county vehicle in New Jersey that was used to help folks fill out unemployment benefits. So there may be some irony there,” said Martin jokingly. “Now it has been envisioned as 21st century workforce development.”...

2015 Innovation Fund Annual Report

Governor's Office of Student Achievement

The Innovation Fund, administered through the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), invests in local education agencies (LEAs), to plan, implement, and scale innovative education programs that advance student achievement throughout Georgia. The Innovation Fund also operates the Innovation in Teaching Competition which recognizes and rewards Georgia’s most innovative K- 12 teachers and makes their resources available to other educators...

SCIENCE EDUCATION GOES FULL STE(A)M AHEAD

Venture Atlanta

Growth in any startup community requires a continuous supply of qualified engineering, computer science and programming talent. Major startups hubs in this country – Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Boston, Mass. and Atlanta – are fueled to a large extent by the talent from the research universities in their respective communities.

But some observers are concerned that the methods used to teach the skills now required in these STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields are no longer adequate, particularly at the elementary, middle and high school levels which could in turn affect the number of students who pursue these fields at the college level.

“Schools have not changed in the last hundred years,” said Jason Martin...

PwC Selects STE(A)M Truck for Innovation in Education

Civic Accelerator

“It’s like wood-shop class on wheels, but with 3-D printers and way more fun.”

This was founder Jason Martin’s description about what his social venture was about when we first met him as he applied to our Civic Accelerator over a year ago. Since then, the pitch has shortened to “Mobile Innovation Lab”, but the fun and the impact has definitely remained. Their innovation in education, and progress in our accelerator, caught the attention of founding Civic Accelerator supporter, the PwC Charitable Foundation, which awarded STE(A)M Truck $25,000 in July at their annual Senior Associates Milestone Conference in Orlando, Florida...

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Blank Family Foundation Awards Grant to Atlanta's First Mobile Makerspace

Atlanta Daybook

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has awarded a $63,000 grant to Community Guilds to launch Atlanta’s first mobile makerspace.

The mobile workshop, STE(A)M Truck , will be outfitted with the tools and equipment necessary to conduct makerspace programs at area schools, recreation centers and other community sites. STE(A)M Truck will serve as a visioning space, innovative design studio and work station for maker programming. Maker activities will include electronics, woodworking and textiles...