Category Archives: Design

MakeShop Announces Micro Grant Opportunity

Posted by Admin in Art and Technology, Awards, Design

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, with funding from the Grable Foundation and support from The Sprout Fund and The Pittsburgh Foundation, will provide “Maker” micro grants to organizations who work with children and youth.

Micro Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support programs that engage Youth Makers, children aged 7 to 17, in the hands-on design and production of objects that respond to two themes: Wearables and Rideables. Youth Makers will be encouraged to think broadly about the themes and create items as diverse as a wearable gaming system or cupcakes on wheels.

Download a Micro Grant Application and get started on your MakeShop idea today!

Micro Grant applications are due on Monday, January 30, 2012.

Micro Grants will be awarded through public selection using an online voting process developed by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The general public will have the chance to vote on their favorite projects and thereby select the final Youth Makers for grants.

Digital Media and Learning Competition: Design + Tech

Posted by Admin in Calls for Proposals, Design and tagged with ,

Stage Two of the 4th Digital Media and Learning Competition:  Design and Tech

The 4th Digital Media and Learning Competition encourages individuals and organizations to create badges that are designed to publicly validate new skills, knowledge, and achievements.

The Design and Technology stage (Stage 2) of the Competition seeks organizations, teams, or individuals skilled in design to submit early prototypes for badging systems based on the content or programs developed by winning applicants from Stage One, or pre-existing collaborator content.

NOTE: Badge design and tech applicants can submit proposals using fictional content, however, aligning with Stage One content, or collaborator content, is highly encouraged as successful proposals from Stage Two will be matched with winners from Stage One for the final proposals.

 

Submissions will be displayed online for public comment and assessed by an expert panel of judges before winners are matched with content and programs teams from Stage One.

Submission requirements:

Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure makes it easy to issue display, and manage badges, and as such platforms proposed by Stage Two applicants must work within the Open Badge Infrastructure standards and APIs (http://openbadges.org).  Applicants are also encouraged to develop software and widgets that extend the Open Badge Infrastructure.

Stage Two applicants should submit visual materials that will graphically represent their proposed badge system, as well as a 1500 word written proposal that describes in detail how the badge system will perform. Submissions, due no later than December 2 at 5pm PST, should be submitted through the DML Competition web site: http://dmlcompetition.net/.