In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Nigel Cartmell.

Nigel is the founder of AKL Mini-makers. Started in 2015, AKL Mini-Makers' delivers parent-led technology workshops for Primary and Intermediate school-age children. Nigel and other AKL Mini-Makers' members teach design thinking, and maker culture skills, for prototyping – electronics, coding, digital design and 3d printing.

The weekly workshops run weekly workshops started in February 2016, are financially supported by Parents, and partnered with Auckland Council and AUT (the Auckland University of Technology). They aim to grow with the children (currently 11-years old) until they’re old enough to become junior tutors – a wider tutor base enabling an increase in class numbers.

In this interview, Nigel talks about his journey to start the AKL Mini-Makers' workshops as a way to help his daughter to learn and build cool stuff, and to complement what she was learning at school.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0028-nigel-cartmell/