The Makersville Community
Makersville provides early entrepreneurship experiences to its youth community and mentors. with focus on hands on doing and making and social responsibility. We help others through seeking of donations and sales of certain products of our community.
With this campaign, we will help:
This campaign is the result of an organically developed community that is now in it's 6th year. We learn new skills, mentor, coach, teach, make products and develop curriculum.
What We Need & What You Get
Our youth entrepreneurs and their mentors are being asked to donate a percentage of their proceeds to the program, with a suggested 10% minimum. The remaining amount will be used to source materials, pay for advertising and printing costs, create paid work to our summer interns who will help to fulfill the offered products and their delivery.
We need $1K in donations from this campaign for each library, park and camp location with which we will engage to bring the WRO. This funding will provide a basic set of equipment and a small coaching stipend to established groups and organizations that agree to develop their WRO presence. At these sites, we will seek out a core supporter who can take the WRO program into future years.
We need $250 in donations from this campaign to bring our youth entrepreneurs and their adult mentors to each core and extended community site to share what they do or make. We have core community sites:
- Through our collaboration with the Robotics Society of Southern California (meets at Cal-State university, Long Beach,
- At Lincoln Elementary School (A Title I School) in Long Beach, CA,
- At Grace United Methodist Church in Long Beach, CA
- DeVry University in Long Beach, CA
WHAT YOU GET
All fullfilments will target the end of August, 2018 for completion and shipping of products.
- Master Model Builder, Brian Heins, has kindly designed two special promotional kits themed to the 2018 theme of the World Robot Olympiad. These kits, Harvest Bot and Garden Bot are limited edition kits and will include a custom printed World Robot Olympiad 1x8 LEGO(r) brick.
- Kid Fan of LEGO(r) (KFOL) NZ Fawkes will coordinate the e-delivery of his self-published book "Beauty of the Brick".
- Mom Jenny Tate will work to produce the keychains from the custom UV printed 1x8 bricks.
- Squigglemom, Trish Tsoiasue will coordinate e-delivery of a copy of the 2017 2x4 Day Celebration book.
The HUGE Impact
By now, you may have seen the huge potential in what you can help us to do. Our community is inclusive, youth focused and crosses causes.
Our participants have always included neurotypical as well as Autistic and ADD/ADHD youth; well-to-do, middle-class and impoverished youth; boys and girls; elementary, middle school, high school and college aged youth; students in public, private and home school settings; Boy Scouts in camps seeking merit badges; participants in teacher-supported programs; participants at libraries, at a homeless outreach and at open attendance meetings.
We work hard to implement inclusive programs, to identify the learning wants and needs of each individual, to find the motivators and use them to create small successes. We seek to solve problems big and small (to enjoy the creation of the solution) and we need you to help us solve them. Then we do it again.
Risks & Challenges
As we offer this campaign, we are making plans for the summer... and summer is fast coming upon us. We are making small commitments for volunteer time, in case the campaign does not gather sufficient community support - your support.
We need to motivate our summer interns to create the processes and build a fulfillment community for the kits we produce.
There is a big chance that we will not get enough donated funds to do all we want to do... all we can do.
There are many challenges. Many risks. We are making small commitments regardless of the outcome, and bigger commitments as funding comes in. The vision - the possibilities - are huge, and you can help us to help others and in so doing get yourself a World Robot Olympiad (WRO) 2018 souvenir kit, keychain, eBook and/or learn about the 2x4 Day in the 2017 book.
- We have been building communities for 15+ years, this community since 2012, global communities since 2015.
- We have big visions and take small steps to achieve them. Then we take another step.
- We have training in Creative Problem Solving and LEGO(r) Serious Play and have been working on our problem solving skills since 2015.
- Our goal is to enjoy the process, learn new skills, share with others, teach, entrepreneur and be socially responsible. Regardless of the fundraising outcome, we are already successful.
Other Ways You Can Help
Please share this campaign with friends, family, and ask them to share. If you can, please contribute or make a purchase of one of our products.
Thank you for participating!
