Young inventors 4.0 are born at the Young Makers School

Programming and 3D printing courses and workshops, fun and practice to introduce younger people to Steam subjects (Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) thanks to a playful-creative approach.This is the proposal of the Young Makers School (YMS) offered by Makers Hub, a creative artisan laboratory where you design, build and learn,

Programming and 3D printing courses and workshops, fun and practice to introduce younger people to Steam matters (Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) thanks to a playful-creative approach.This is the proposal of Young Makers School (YMS) offered by Makers Hub, a creative artisan laboratory where you design, build and learn, a space organized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Milan which for several years has established itself as a development partner for businesses and a place of training and innovation for students and enthusiasts.

The startup, born in Milan in 2016, became part of the ecosystem of LifeGate Way, the group's subsidiary which aims to create a network of sustainable startups with a focus on open innovation.The fact of working transversally with boys and girls and also making the latter passionate about technical-scientific subjects through a playful path like that of the Young Makers School, offers enormous potential to reduce the gender gap in the long term and make the choices that boys and girls will make regarding faculties and specialties more balanced in due course.

What the Young Makers School is and how it works

As the startup's representatives explain, the "maker", to which the name refers, is the figure most similar tomodern inventor that we can imagine.For this reason, the Young Makers School puts analogue and digital technologies together at the service of the creativity of young people, to encourage the development of innovative projects and the creation of personalized digital products.

“Our model puts fun and practice at the center to introduce very young people to technical-scientific subjects often wrongly judged to be difficult and complicated,” says Stefania Cavallo, head of the educational area of ​​Makers Hub;mother and maker, she is the face who accompanies the kids in the video lessons.

“Through these teachings we help kids develop fundamental skills for their training path”, continues Cavallo.In this way, in fact, boys and girls find themselves applying the formulas and procedures they learn in school in a playful and creative context, thus making teaching more experiential and practical, especially as regards the more scientific subjects. abstract such as mathematics, geometry or logic.

How to access the service

The Young Makers School courses are available on the website courses.makershub.it in different solutions and with packages covering topics such as 3D printing, laser cutting, programming.Pre-recorded lessons allow children to flexibly access the teaching of digital manufacturing technologies from home and some packages offer live video lessons.

After years in which YMS courses were brought to schools, the pandemic situation forced the organizers to move online.However, the approach remains laboratory-based and very practical and at the end of the courses the students take it home concrete results.Literally, given that the students of the 3D printing course have their printed models delivered to their homes, while the students of the programming course are left with, for example, the video games that they designed themselves.