'''What that means: '''Help build my team to be the best they can, and support them with creative solutions to real world problems.
'''Contact him about: '''Rapid prototyping, building 3d printers, starting a makerspace, gaining traction on campus, creating excitement around ideas, cheese, hockey, and anything to do with advanced hockey stats and or indie rock.
'''Email: '''mackenzie.w.preston@gmail.com
Mac was a University Innovation Fellow at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 2015 to 2017, he . He was drawn into the movement by former fellow and friend Zach Crawford. After receiving the training through UIF, Mac helped to start WMU's first Registered Student Organization (RSO) centered around empowering student design and doing cool stuff. Along with other fellows at WMU and a growing collection of students , Mac helped to launch WMU's first makerspace in the summer of 2017, to help give students a physical space to experiment and exchange ideas with people of many backgrounds. Through this new space he was able to interact with many new people who were poised to do many exciting projects. He had the privilege to help mentor and watch of mentoring the next group of leadership and watching them work their way through the newly founded RSO and work populate it with them through their training into the full-fledged leaders themselves. Mac launched the new leadership own thoughts and watched from afar as they continued to grow and develop their own culture within WMUideas. He recently became a UIGuide to help foster the coming groupings of fellows in the surrounding areasarea.
Mac graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in the Spring of 2017 and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he discovered the thriving cheese scene and now has lost all hope of going vegan. He currently works at Gentex Corporation and as a Production Support Engineer helping people work together effectively and excite and empower people to discover solutions that they did not think possible.