Makerspace Vordingborg

The primary purpose of the project is to give teachers skills for boosting students’ lasting skill sets in technology literacy and school involvement. The municipality will use the grant to establish one makerspace and train a resource team at all schools. The Teaching Aids Centre (CFU) at University College Absalon is responsible for enhancing the skill sets of the 45 teachers who make up the schools’ resource teams.
The makerspace and technology literacy initiatives will revolve around experimental and student-centred learning in order to enhance students’ skill sets and opportunities for further learning and education in a society with a wide variety of digital arenas and technologies. 
The project includes local partners who contribute authentic design challenges in an annual learning process for students in forms 3 to 8. A maker festival will also be held each year for all the schools in the municipality.
Students in the teacher training programme will be trained as makerspace hosts. They will take part in specially designed internships at the makerspace schools and will be offered study jobs in which they will staff makerspaces after school.