Florida Tech’s KEEN TEAM Wins Grant
April 22, 2019–Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) has been awarded a grant to help make the tools to supercharge learning at makerspaces. Ultimately the goal of the grant is to foster entrepreneurial learning by bringing “maker spaces” into a formal part of engineering education at universities nationwide.
The $650,000 grant is from the Kern Family Foundation. Florida Tech is part of KEEN, the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, a collaboration of 40 Universities.
Through their research with KEEN, the university hopes to facilitate the growing interest in the educational potential of “maker spaces” such as labs and machine shops with 3D printers, virtual- and augmented-reality tools, and other equipment. The university will collaborate with three other KEEN universities to develop and test the instructional tools that can be used by schools of any size and maker space maturity.