FEATURES Amazing Maker Awards
The first-ever Community Maker Award is
given to that special person whose work
expands the maker community by providing
access to those who might not otherwise
have the opportunity to experience the joy
of making and learning.Noelle Conover is
the 2022 recipient of the Community Maker
Award, and when you read the story she wrote
here, you’ll understand why she deserves this
recognition.Noelle started Matt’s Maker Space
in schools in the Pittsburgh area, and then
went on to start 33 makerspaces in schools,
children’s hospitals, and psychiatric clinics.
—Dale Dougherty
H
ave you ever watched children in a
makerspace? They come alive! Especially
the children who never had a chance to use their
hands or their minds in creative ways. My own
children, now in their 20s and 30s, love visiting
makerspaces. They never had a woodshop
class or sewing in school. In the 1990s, schools
removed the hands-on classes, replacing them
with honors and advanced placement. There was
talk of replacing recess with an extra half hour of
math! Kids sat in their seats all day, reciting back
the same things that their classmates recited.
Every project they brought home was the same
as the project their sibling made the year before.
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Matt’s Maker Space
Noelle Conover of Matt’s Maker Space
Community
Maker Award
NOELLE CONOVER
is the founder and
executive director of
Matt’s Maker Space,
Inc., which she and
her husband, David,
founded in memory
of her late son, Matt.
Noelle and David
live in Pennsylvania
near their two adult
daughters.
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