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"Believe it or not, back-to-school season is right around the corner. Even if
you’re not quite ready to trade in your lemonade for a pumpkin spice latte,
we’re already planning ahead for the new school year. Since 2009, iFixit has
partnered with university instructors and students through our Technical
Writing Project. While our own formal education program has made a significant
impact at colleges and universities from California to Maine and from Toronto
to Puerto Rico, it’s crucial that we as a society ensure that youth at every
level—including elementary, middle, and high school—are encouraged to think and
learn about the benefits of repair.
Thankfully, there’s a globe-spanning community of fixers, tinkerers, makers,
and educators who have been working tirelessly toward this goal, connecting
across continents to share ideas and strategies. One such person is Vita Wells,
the force behind Culture of Repair, a community organization dedicated to
collecting and sharing repair resources for K-12 classrooms and educational
nonprofits. Combining her background as an artist with experience in
makerspaces, Vita is driving impactful change in California’s Bay Area by
supporting community repair events and bringing repair programs into
classrooms. She hopes these programs will encourage today’s youth to think
critically about where our stuff comes from, how it’s designed, and how we can
extend its useful life—in short, how we can establish a culture where repair is
once again the norm rather than the exception."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
