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Maker Pros Go to Washington
Congressional leaders and staff attended Maker Faire Capitol Hill this week, where they met with a diverse group of makers representing the manufacturing sector, colleges and universities, and the federal government — a cross section, in other words, of the maker pro ecosystem.
Participants included the Congressional Maker Caucus (@MakerCaucus), the National Human Genome Research Institute (@genome_gov), the Fab Foundation (@FabFndn) and Maker Media (@MakerMedia) founder Dale Dougherty (@dalepd), who moderated a panel about how the maker movement can bolster innovation and the job market.
“The breadth and impact of the maker movement on sectors of the U.S. such as education, manufacturing, economic development and innovation are simply remarkable,” said Dorothy Jones-Davis (@dmjonesdavis), the executive director of Nation of Makers (@NationOfMakers), a nonprofit that supports the maker community. “The Maker Faire Capitol Hill is an amazing opportunity to share the enormous impact of makers on cities throughout our great country with policymakers and families alike here in Washington, D.C.”
American Factories Are Leaning Into the Future
A riveting report by the Boston Globe looks at what factories are calling “advanced manufacturing” techniques — think robots and cloud computing — and how they’re allowing them to stay competitive, or even carve out new niches, in a complicated global market.
One upshot is that these future factories, many of which have sprung up in Massachusetts, can be workplaces with the trappings of Silicon Valley, complete with dogs allowed at work, catered lunches and…
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