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Maker Fellows

SHARE your passion.
APPLY your skills in your chosen career.
TRANSFORM kid’s lives.

You’re a hands-on maker, educator, or parent. Or maybe you’re a rising engineer, programmer, designer, or artist. And you have a passion for sharing your skills and experience with kids through making. Join us!

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Read more about our available positions here and follow the links to apply and/or submit your resume. All positions are in NYC unless otherwise specified. We look forward to hearing from you!

Maker Fellow Instructor
Maker Fellow Internship
Marketing/Business Development Internship

What our former Maker Fellows say about the Fellowship

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Are you a college or high school student or community member who believes all kids should have hands-on, creative learning opportunities in STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts, math)?

The Maker Fellowship might be a great opportunity for you!

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Follow these links to learn more about our open job and internship opportunities and apply. All positions are in NYC unless otherwise specified. We look forward to hearing from you!

MakerState Former Fellows

Naushin Tasnim

Naushin Tasnim

Working as Technical Recruiter at Google

Karissa Wheeler

Executive Director at 5 ‘Til Places

Ryan Kubik

Ryan Kubik

Manufacturing Manager at Data Device Corporation

Zahin Rahman

Zahin Rahman

Advertising Video Investment Supervisor at Starcom LOGO

Check out the Maker Fellowship and other job opportunities below!

Positions Available

Read more about our available positions below and follow the links to apply and/or submit your resume. All positions are in NYC unless otherwise specified. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and responsible after school instructors in hands-on STEM crafts (paper rockets, cardboard derby cars, magnet slime, etc), LEGO robotics, Scratch coding, Tinkercad 3D design and printing, and Minecraft for elementary students at diverse schools around NYC.

Schedule: Programs generally occur between 2:30–6:00pm, Monday through Friday. This position can renew each semester, pending performance and school contracts.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Afterschool instructor for students ages 5–14 leading hands-on projects in material engineering, Scratch coding, robotics, Minecraft, and Tinkercad.
  • Research and create project lessons for materials engineering and computer science, including recording instructional videos.
  • Liaison with school site directors, parents, and staff to ensure program success.
  • Preferred (not required): Volunteer with MakerState Labs to support students with demonstrated financial need.

Qualifications

  • Experience managing and teaching children ages 5-14
  • Ability to communicate professionally with the AfterSchool Director and parents
  • Ability to travel throughout NYC for work and be on time every day
  • Ability to maintain consistent and professional communications and record-keeping via phone, email, and Google Drive
  • Ability to commit to the entire semester of work
  • Verbal and written English language proficiency required
  • Improvise and supplement additional projects/curriculum as necessary
  • Expertise/passion in a STEM/STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) field (see Preferred Experience below)
  • IMPORTANT: You will be required to be fingerprinted and background-checked and attend training prior to teaching, in most cases. Your background check will be paid for.

Preferred Experience

  • Scratch, and/or other computer programming languages/tools/apps for kids
  • Tinkercad (or other 3D design apps like SketchUp, Autodesk, Blender, Maya)
  • Stop-motion movie making & editing: iMovie, Moviemaker, Final Cut, etc.
  • Game design: analog & video games
  • Microcontrollers: Arduino, LilyPad, Flora, Raspberry Pi
  • 3D printing
  • Space Engineers, Game Salad, Gamestar Mechanic, Stencyl
  • Kid-friendly tech like MaKey MaKey, littleBits, Snap Circuits
  • Crafting, designing, building, hacking, and making in general
  • LEGO Mindstorms EV3 and WeDo robotics systems, and mBot/mBlock
  • Ability to write new lesson plans in a tech-arts field in which you are passionate/skilled is a big plus
  • Minecraft for creativity and education
  • Instructors with NYSED licensure on any grade level and a passion for makerspace and digital arts/media are preferred but not necessary

If you wish to proceed with your application, please answer the questions on the Google form link below:


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjLZDBL3OBhpPKl3shIqhn5wYGpjGCJP8ve7rS2z6KuGKYUA/viewform

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Be a full time camp instructor during our nine week July-August STEM Summer Camp in NYC. Join our team of Maker Fellows who are inspiring the next generation of innovators in summer camp. Through hands-on “Challenge” projects, we teach Scratch video game design, Minecraft Engineering, TinkerCAD, rocket science, material engineering, and other kid-tech-arts.

Qualifications

  • High school or college student with a 3.0 GPA or higher
  • Interest and/or experience in a STEAM subject (science, technology, engineering, arts, math)


Additional Qualifications

  • Experience working with kids ages 6-18 in a school or community-based program
  • Computer programming tools for kids such as Scratch, Game Salad, Gamestar Mechanic (regular programming languages great too!)
  • LEGO robotics: Mindstorms, WeDo, StoryStarter
  • Minecraft: Redstone engineers needed!
  • MaKey MaKey & littleBits
  • 3D printing: Tinkercad, Blender, SketchUp, Autodesk and 3D printing hardware
  • Game design: analog & video games
  • Game design: analog & video games
  • Stop-motion movie making & editing: iMovie, Moviemaker, Final Cut, etc.
  • Microcontrollers: Arduino, LilyPad, Flora, Raspberry Pi
  • Crafting, designing, building, hacking, and making in general
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Job Description

Your responsibilities include:

  • Help create and execute our latest school growth plan.
  • Research market data and report analysis for growth of our program model.
  • Research new market opportunities and maintain data in Google Docs, Sheets and a CRM.
  • Support marketing and partner development team in reaching new customers and extending brand awareness in key markets.
  • Help train team on use of CRM.
  • Use social media manager application (we use Hootsuite at this time) to ensure we have an everyday, every medium presence in social media and use these platforms to connect and associate and build audiences and relationship with affinity organizations, thought leaders, and potential customers.
  • Must have social entrepreneur and/or positive social impact orientation; STEM and/or education focus/interest a plus.


Qualifications

  • Majoring/Minoring in Business, Entrepreneurship or Marketing.
  • Experience using a CRM such as Insightly
  • Experience using Google Docs/Spreadsheets
  • Experience using a Social Media Manager app