{"id":649591,"date":"2013-03-28T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=c34d4265b302bba7d7a046cc4e77c84b"},"modified":"2013-03-28T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:29:12","slug":"hanging-out-with-makers-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649591","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out with \u201cMakers\u201d at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the White House invited innovators from around the country to join a Google+ Hangout to discuss the Maker Movement, a growing community of young people and adults who are designing and building things on their own time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil moderated the conversation with participants including: 11-year-old Super Awesome Sylvia, creator of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sylviashow.com\/\">Super Awesome Maker Show<\/a>; Dale Dougherty, founder of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/pub\/au\/Dale_Dougherty\">MAKE<\/a>&nbsp;Magazine and creator of Maker Faire; Tara Tiger Brown, co-founder and executive director at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lamakerspace.com\/\">LA Makerspace<\/a>; Saul Griffith, co-founder of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherlab.com\/\">Otherlab<\/a>; and Venkatesh Prasad,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ford.com\/article_display.cfm?article_id=31396\">Ford<\/a>&nbsp;technical leader. And in a first for White House Hangouts, a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MakerSylvia\/status\/317062331643359232\">robot<\/a> joined too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the Hangout, participants discussed the elements of an &quot;all hands on deck&quot; effort to elevate Making and also share their ideas on how we can get more young people interested in STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math). Here&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vtgJILMBjFU\">what you missed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#39;ll continue to host hangouts with key members of the Administration on a range of issues.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+whitehouse\/posts\">Follow the White House on Google+<\/a>&nbsp;for updates from the Administration and opportunities to participate in upcoming Hangouts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the White House invited innovators from around the country to join a Google+ Hangout to discuss the Maker Movement, a growing community of young people and adults who are designing and building things on their own time. White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil moderated the conversation with participants including: 11-year-old Super Awesome Sylvia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}