James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Any contribution of $10 receives: Inclusion in the STEMulate Learning email newsletter. 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $20 receives: Poster of the STEMulate Learning projects 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $100 receives: STEMulate Learning keychain (printed using the MakerBot if fully funded)
Any contribution of $250 receives: Copy of the first learner design printed (if fully funded)
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Any contribution of $5,000 receives: Custom-designed 3D printed STEMulate Learning desk display.
Started by Kalani Hausman January 12th, 2012
A time-lapse demonstration of the Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, illustrating its abilities using a community-sourced gothic cathedral design.
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The next generation of inventors and innovators can often describe their ideas, even draw them, but never see their dreams transformed into reality. The Thing-o-Matic is a low-cost community-supported 3D Printer that can literally print out solid objects using plastic to create a real-world model to help sustain that innovative spirit as the children go on to study subjects in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) areas so critical to our future.
A 3D Printer produces actual physical models from designs created using a computer, allowing learners to create a visual example of their ideas - a "santa claus" machine that can literally print out plastic models from nothing more than a virtual design.
This is an extension of an earlier STEMulate Learning project conducted through the #SciFund Challenge, aimed at stimlulating STEM interest in young learners who will be the next generation's Edisons or DaVincis! The previous effort provided support for a CPU node currently lending processing power to cures for global diseases and the search for clean water and clean power technologies. Check out the ongoing progress of the STEMulate Learning effort at http://STEMulate.Org/
The aim of the Santa Clause Machine project is to obtain a Thing-o-Matic for use in workshops with middle-school, junior high and high school students. All gifts will go towards obtaining the machine itself, with any funds over and above that going towards supplies to facilitate its use during the workshops with public schools in the local area.
If the project is funded beyond a single station and its supplies, the electronics and mechanical components for a second station will be acquired and the first Thing-o-Matic used to print out the structural components for its clone bot to improve printing speed for larger workshops.