International Maker Coach Intern
Position: Maker Coach Intern
Organization: ETES Inc.
Department: Project and Product Development
Cycle: School year: Specific Tasks Adjust Quarterly
Start Date: Quarterly
Position is occasional part-time (starts at 3 hours/week and can be up to 15 hours per week) and flexes according to our Makerspace schedule.
Candidate Majors/interests: Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Education, Graphic Design, Digital art, Fashion, Film. Self taught is acceptable.
GPA Desired: N/a
Position Type: Hybrid up to 20% remote
Number of Openings: 3
Languages: English and one of Spanish, Tagalog, Khmer (speak/read/write fluency and cultural understanding is desired, but access to those who might support reading and writing tasks through social or volunteer connections is acceptable)
Job Description:
Our maker interns take a playful approach to learning and are voracious learners and project explorers. They should be interested in and willing to become proficient in our current makerspace equipment and projects (and share the projects with youth aged 8+ and adults in our space) and interested in exploring projects of their own.
Maker interns accept responsibility for nurturing and extending the learning goals of those visiting the Makerspace. We will demonstrate how this works. You will also learn the techniques of creative problem solving and practice them as we together create new programs and curriculum.
Maker interns support our Makerspace open hours, make things for sale or giveaway, document procedures, research on the internet.
Maker interns also support event visualization, management and planning. This includes grant-writing, budget management and tracking. This may require you help with moving equipment to event locations from our studio, check participants in/out, support social media outreach for events (post on Instagram, Facebook, etc), create flyers, find volunteers for events, and reach out to community individuals that might attend/participate in our events.
Makersville is currently focused on the following skills/projects: Sewing bunnies / teaching bunny making; Robotics with the Microbit Microcontroller; Historic Long Beach, particularly publishing of books/workbooks; creative and technical LEGO projects (particularly mechanical Great Ball Contraptions; robotics.)
The Makerspace team works with our organizational partners and events of our shared programs, particularly our International Friendship Ambassador, Artists and Makers, Wellness and Teen Entrepreneurship programs.
Equipment
- Sewing machine
- 3D printer
- Vacuformer
- Die Cutter (Accucut Grande Mark II)
- Felting Machine
- Arduino (various)
- Microbit Microcontroller
- Rube Goldberg equipment
- LEGO Technics and robots
Qualifications:
Age 18+
Knowledge of Windows suite, Google Suite.
Interested in hands-on learning and doing and developing skills in sewing, LEGO, robotics, website content management, publishing.
Polite, respectful, attentive, pro-active, with good work ethic
Own transportation preferred but not required
Own laptop preferred
Ability to work independently to research projects (YouTube, Internet) and work through problems to find solutions.
Students with projects of their own to share are encouraged to apply
Schedule may adjust on scheduled event weeks.
Application Procedure:
Please forward resume to:
Patricia Tsoiasue patricia@makersvilleservices.org
419 Shoreline Village Drive, Suite Q
Long Beach, CA 90802
CEO ETES Inc DBA Makersville
Interim President and Visionary Counsel, Makersville Services (501c3)