What is a MakerSpace?

What is a Makerspace?

A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools. 

These spaces are open to kids, adults, and entrepreneurs and have a variety of maker equipment including 3D printers, laser cutters, cnc machines, soldering irons and even sewing machines. A makerspace however doesn’t need to include all of these machines or even any of them to be considered a makerspace.  If you have cardboard, legos and art supplies you’re in business. 

Every makerspace is unique and the projects that are worked on inside of them are also very diverse.  Here are just some of the things you can do in a makerspace :

• Coding

• 3d printing

• Laser cutting

• Soldering

• Electronics / Arduino

• Robot building / Robotics

• Learn Circuits and Electricity with paper circuits

• Sewing

• Wood working

• Take-a-part sessions 

• Inventing

​The maker movement is about teaching and learning that is focused on student centered inquiry. This is not the project done at the end of a unit of learning, but the actual vehicle and purpose of the learning.