Welcome to
Family Makers
The Family Makers project offers a research-informed model for an online engineering program at public libraries. Through a research-practice partnership with rural libraries, we co-designed a culturally responsive engineering curriculum for rural children (ages 5-10) and their caregivers.
What is the Impact of Family Makers Program | Participant Testimonials
Watch this video featuring participant testimonials to gain insight into the impact of the Family Makers program.
Please note that this research study is complete and is no longer recruiting participants. Kindly disregard any enrollment information presented toward the end of the video.
Project Goals
Identify assets and challenges for engineering
Identify assets and challenges that rural families and library staff experience for engaging in engineering learning
Develop Family Makers Programming
Co-design and refine Family Makers engineering curriculum by implementing two iterations across rural libraries
Disseminate Family Makers Programming
Disseminate the Family Makers curriculum, supplementary materials, facilitation and technology guides, as well as additional resources for flexible implementation
A look into Family Makers
Meet the researchers and learn more about Family Makers! Discover how this project will strengthen the capacity of rural libraries to foster children's creativity and problem-solving skills in a fun and engaging way.
The Team
Researchers from Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUI) and the University of Cincinnati
collaborate with seven rural libraries and engineers from rural communities.
Together, we form a dynamic partnership dedicated to our shared mission.
IU Indianapolis &
U of Cincinnati
Rural Libraries
Engineers
The Family Makers Project is made possible in part by the National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-252377-OLS)
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
