1. In Rural China

2. GROUP 5
LOVETTE
FU
RIA
LI

3. Backgrounds
Developing a plan on introducing
maker education to rural school in
mainland China.
ID&BMX

4. Summary of
insights
Teacher’s mindset
focused too much
on “feeding the
correct answers”
Students tend to
rely on teachers
to learn

5. Short term goal
TEACHER:
Become better
facilitators
long term goal
Problem-­ solving
Learn from failure
Sharing & collaboration
STUDENT:

6. MORE TIME
LESS SHAPED

7. SOLUTION

9. Summer
Camp
Timeline
for
Stage 1
Semester1
Workshops
Teacher
training
workshop

10. Timeline
for
Stage 1
Winter
Camp
Semester2
Workshops

11. Teacher
Training
workshop
1day
Collaborate with teachers with maker-­education
experiences from big cities
Morning theory
Afternoon
Conduct a sample
workshop with teachers
(being the students)

13. Camp
Theme:
Outdoor/ Indoor Activities:
• Summer war
• Eggdrop Challenge
• Brainstorm: How might we
introduce Tianzhu to other people?
Summer War!

17. Camp guidebook

18. Camp guidebook

19. workshop
2-­3
hours
School
makerspace
Every
2 weeks
Video
Conference

20. workshop
What makes us different??
3
Themes
Social innovation-­ meaningful

21. workshop
What makes us different??
3
Keys
Encourage the students to
explore by themselves in
daily life

22. workshop
STEAM education
(science, technology, engineering, art, and math)
Food Science
Fun Physics
Experiment

23. Bonus
&plus

24. Invite maker-­ed
teachers from
big cities to do
training
Fund teachers who
are interested in
maker-­ed to attend
trainings in big
cities
Teachers who
received the
funding are
responsible for
teacher training in
future local area
community
Teacher
training

25. Recruiting
volunteers
International
/Local
Students who are mandarin speakers from
Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Singapore, Malaysia, etc
targets

26. Recruiting
volunteers
Teams from
Worldwide
Maker Faire
targets

27. Recruiting
volunteers
Benefits Volunteer + Travel
(for volunteers)
Promoting local area
(for local people, schools,
even the government)

28. Gather good
teaching plans and
materials to a forum
in collaboration with
Gather good student
maker projects in
collaboration with
Connect with
voluntary teachers
from big cities
Connect with
TechEd companies
EEF input

29. Business
plan

30. Accommodation and travel expenses of the facilitators 10,000
200
200
(depends)
10,400+
* students will bring their material from home
Stage1 approximate
investment plan
*Materials cost for running camps&workshops
Advertising
Volunteer

31. o Overall development
of the students
o Differentiate the
school from others
o Gain big social
impact by involving
alumni
o Gain external help
from volunteers
Marketing
strategy
For school

32. o Attract attention
from senior
government
o Gain reputation
o Foster
communication
with other areas
Marketing
strategy
To Government
officials

33. Following
the latest
education
trends in
big cities
Marketing
strategy
parents
Local people
might be
benefited
from student
projects
Potential
donors

34. Possible
sources of
income
Teacher
training
funds Tendency
in big cities
From alumni
From local people
From worldwide internet
From tech-­edu companies

35. Sustainability
Can be
applied
directly on
other
schools
Cycle of
training
resource

36. question?

37. Thank you!