The purpose of the 2020/2021 project is to expand and further refine "making" across the State of California with four strategic components: supporting leadership activities and expanding maker initiatives while pivoting to virtual and online maker activities and initiatives at SSU; convening the first fully online higher education maker leadership symposium to bring in makers from across the CSU and other two and four year colleges; allocating resources and scholarships for maker instruction, faculty pedagogy, certificate programs, and open access handbooks; supporting STEM maker activitie

This grant will fund an extension of Tinker Academy, which is a free two-week STEM summer academy for middle-school students that is a collaboration among the Career Technical Education Foundation, the Sonoma State School of Science and Technology, and the SSU Library. Tinker Academy teaches STEM skills through maker activities, including coding, robotics, sewing, 3-D modeling, and crafting. Participants are provided free lunch and materials.

The purpose of project is to expand "making" across the State of California with four strategic components: supporting leadership activities and expanding the maker space(s) at SSU, convening a higher education maker leadership symposium bringing in makers from across the CSU and other two and four year colleges and universities to create a vision for making in higher education and to identify best practices, allocating resources for the creation of maker face to face course identifying higher education making spaces along with K-12 making spaces to be integrated into the Maker Certificate