Professor Jeff Groves discusses how over the last two decades, makerspaces have become standard facilities at institutions with engineering and arts programs. Harvey Mudd College has always had a strong “maker culture” in its student body, and it has supported some small facilities devoted to student making, but it hasn’t created substantial space for its maker culture—until now!
This spring, with the opening of the McGregor Computer Science Center, the new HMC makerspace will be an exciting place to develop maker culture and to host programming for students beginning in late August. The makerspace will occupy most of the ground floor of the McGregor Center, and it is poised to become a hub of student creativity. In this talk, Groves, the inaugural director of the makerspace, discusses the history of makerspaces, the development of HMC’s new facility, and the challenges and opportunities of creating such a facility. The presentation includes plenty of images to show off this vibrant, new space.
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