While working on maker initiatives at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and traveling to more than 20 states over the last two years, Andrew Coy did consulting work with national nonprofits and saw examples of maker education spaces. But Digital Harbor Foundation, the Baltimore-based maker education nonprofit where he served as executive director before getting the call from the Obama administration, loomed large.
“People want to figure out how to do more of the types of things that we do here,” he said Thursday night, back at the Federal Hill tech center in a familiar Digital Harbor Foundation T-shirt and blazer in a room full of students demonstrating new creations made using the programming language Scratch. “They do pieces of them, but I do feel like we have a unique combination. The fact that we are in an old community space like a rec center. The fact that the programs have created a youth-centric experience and the fact that the kids have gone on and done amazing things…There is something unique here and we feel like we have a role to play in helping that grow.”
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