Underserved students in rural communities have minimal access and emphasis on STEAM education. The goal of our project was to help change this for Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) students by designing a makerspace that will unify individual efforts by SFIS staff to increase accessibility to hands-on STEAM education. We interviewed makerspace and Santa Fe Indian School employees to help us understand what considerations need to be made when designing a makerspace for the school. Through our research in Santa Fe, New Mexico we learned what makes a successful makerspace and what employees of the school want. We created a guide for the school that contains recommendations based on our findings and other information they may find relevant when creating an on-campus makerspace.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mueting, Madeline
• Brush, Phillip
• Prisco, Juliana
• McCammon, Andrew

Subject

• Learning
• Project-Based Learning
• Community
• Infrastructure
• Inclusion
• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121522-120853
• 83411

Keyword

• makerspace
• Indigenous communities
• STEAM
• education
• Native American

Advisor

• Eddy, Zoe
• Belz, Melissa

Year

• 2022

Center

• Santa Fe, New Mexico Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Santa Fe Indian School

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2022-12-15

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-121522-120853

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-12