Some of these differences, like broad educational experiences and lifelong learning, are unsurprising. Adult makers have, during the course of their lives, been exposed to more levels of education and greater variety in terms of career and experiences than makers 30 years their junior. Two areas of importance however are found in designing and conducting experiments and computer aided design. Older makers were much more likely to see themselves as conducting experiments through their iterative design process than young makers. We hypothesize that this is due to the more formal exposure to the scientific method that adults would have received in college. This finding could also be interpreted as suggesting that Making could be a form of scientific inquiry in the classroom if students were guided in the process. Finally, more than twice as many young makers explicitly mentioned using computer aided