View full sizeJoshua Centeno, 14, a freshman from the Big Picture Ironbound Academy (right), works with instructor Jon Santiago to create a joystick prototype in the Maker Space program at Newark Museum. They are using a machine called a MakerBot that creates a plastic form from a 3-D computer model.
NEWARK — In a windowless classroom on the second floor of the Newark Museum, eight students from Newark Innovation Academy are hunched over their laptops, tapping the keys and occasionally whispering as they work on the day’s challenge of designing a video game.
The library-quiet classroom is part of Makerspace, the museum’s new two-room lab that blends high-tech know-how with do-it-yourself ingenuity.
Based off the FabLab concept that came out of MIT, Makerspace is a shop class for computer nerds, a project-based, hands-on learning center where students…
