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Many in our community are without access to their Fab Labs during the pandemic. Our Covid-19 content including the UNPLUGGED Lesson Collection provides teachers and parents with learning opportunities in design, engineering, analog fabrication, and low tech electronics.

Our global community grows and stays connected through webinars, workshops, and meet-ups. Members of our community share their work with each other to learn new technologies, teaching approaches, and impactful projects.

Educational Resources

SCOPES-DF Reflection and Playbook

The Reflection and Playbook is written in response to the pressing need to provide academic coherence to the rapid growth and integration of artifact creation and digital fabrication concepts into K–12 classrooms. During the past decade, the Maker Movement in Education, designated as ‘Tinkering’, ‘Makerspaces’, ‘FabLearn Labs’, ‘Design-Make-Play’, ‘Maker-Centered Learning’, or Fab Labs, has increased usage of digital fabrication devices, such as 3D-printers, laser cutters, or milling machines in classrooms.

Fab I Can Statements

The Fab I Can Statements are a formative assessment tool that measures achievement and the digital fabrication learning experience intended for K-12.

The statements seamlessly connect classroom activities with benchmarked Fab teaching objectives, state and national learning standards, and with broad outcomes for life-long digital fabrication learning.