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CAN - TXRX Labs Houston - Maker Install Coordinator VISTA
 
 
 
TXRX Labs, founded in 2009, located in Houston’s East End, is a nonprofit 501(c)3 makerspace that provides over 750 classes each year for adults and youth to receive training in computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines: 3D printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, lathes, mills, water jets, and router tables, and the foundational software for CNC machining: computer aided drafting (CAD), and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). TXRX’s 50,000 square foot facility serves over 4,000 Houstonians each year and is staffed by professional educators, engineers, inventors, artists, and coders, who help others use high-tech tools to turn ideas into realities. TXRX Labs is a makerspace located in Houston, Texas that provide community classes in welding, woodworking, 3D printing, and other prototyping techniques. TXRX is installing three makerspaces in HISD elementary and middle schools. The makerspaces will engage the students, teachers, and broader community in hands-on problem based learning, vocational training, and exposure to careers in STEM. Through this program, TXRX hopes to increase the students’ ability to make, manufacture, and fabricate the world around them. With these technical skills, students will have the ability to obtain manufacturing jobs, vocational training, and/or attend a college/university of their choice and therefore will have multiple clear paths out of poverty. The three VISTA Maker Space Coordinators will build the capacity of the HISD makerspaces by enhancing project-based curriculum, maintaining equipment, providing professional development to teachers, documenting use of maker-spaces through blogs, and coordinating events, workshops, and fundraisers to engage the broader school communities in making, manufacturing, and fabricating.
 
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Member Duties : The TXRX VISTA Maker Install Coordinators will be: -Developing maker based curriculum for elementary, middle, and high schools. -Training teachers, school leaders, and community members with technical skills to operate the equipment. -Coordinating workshops, trainings, and fundraisers for the broader school community (students, parents, teachers, community based organization) to learn skills related to making. -Engaging the community by documenting use of makerspace through photos and blog posts. -Write grants to support the continued growth of makerspaces in the schools -Conduct outreach events in surrounding communities to raise awareness of the makerspaces in the schools -Coordinate volunteers to help with maker events at the schools and in the community -Create evaluation tools to measure the success of the program
 
Program Benefits : Health Coverage* ,  Relocation Allowance ,  Childcare assistance if eligible ,  Training ,  Living Allowance ,  Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend . 
 
 
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
 
Terms :
Car recommended . 
 
Service Areas :
Neighborhood Revitalization ,  Technology ,  Community and Economic Development ,  Education ,  Children/Youth ,  Entrepreneur/Business . 
 
Skills :
Trade/Construction ,  Fine Arts/Crafts ,  Computers/Technology ,  Community Organization ,  Social Media, Event Planning ,  Youth Development ,  Business/Entrepreneur ,  Teaching/Tutoring ,  Writing/Editing ,  Education ,  Team Work ,  Communications . 
 
 
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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA
Program
CAN - TXRX Labs Houston - Maker Install Coordinator VISTA
Program Start/End Date
11/12/2018  -   11/11/2019
Work Schedule Full Time
Education level
College graduate
Age Requirement
Minimum:  18    Maximum:  None
Program Locations TEXAS   Houston/Galveston  
Accepting Applications
From  08/23/2018  To  10/23/2018 
Contact Carol Reeves
3500 Noble Ave
Fort Worth   TX   76111
8176326000x138
creeves@canetwork.org
txrxlabs.org
Listing ID 82675

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