Maker education uniquely empowers students to explore and improve their world. It enables students to create by building, prototyping, coding, digitally fabricating and experimenting. Maker education puts the student at the center of the learning experience and is interdisciplinary, fusing arts and design with science, technology, engineering and math. Makers often create new businesses and they can also drive the success of existing ones. Maker education has a central role in supporting the development of a diverse national workforce with an entrepreneurial “maker mindset”. This is essential to the success of communities and industries that are actively innovating and making in the USA.