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Introduction ===</parsererror><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 4pt0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt; border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(225, 225, 225)6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b003805d-647b-953d-d587-3358cfe8a0cd"><span style="font-size: 19pt11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontbackground-weightcolor: 400; font-style: italictransparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students of different career paths to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arialDeveloping and improving a makerspace typically requires setting a goal,helveticadetermining logistical restraints,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b003805d-647b-953d-d587-3358cfe8a0cd"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possible. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of different career paths making people comfortable in them. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room. Developing and improving tailor a makerspace typically requires setting to engage the unique interests of a goal, determining logistical restraints, and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possiblecommunity. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of making people comfortable in them</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to tailor a makerspace to engage the unique interests of a student community.</span></span></span68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt4pt; margin-bottom: 6pt4pt; border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(225, 225, 225); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="linefont-heightsize: 1.6819pt; margin-topcolor: 4ptrgb(0, 0, 0); marginfont-bottomweight: 4pt400; borderfont-bottomstyle: 0.75pt solid rgb(225, 225, 225)italic; textvertical-align: justifybaseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goal Setting</span></span></span ></p><p dir="ltr" style="fontline-familyheight:arial1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 19pt11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontbackground-weightcolor: 400; font-style: italictransparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goal Setting</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="lineThe initial vision is of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come to life. This involves trying and failing in a low-height: 1risk environment.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arialDiversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better,helvetica,sans-serif;">novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. </span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The initial vision Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer-to life-peer training. This involves trying and failing in a low</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-risk environmentheight: 1. Diversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d">&nbsp;</span></span style></p><p dir="fontltr" style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 4pt; margin-sizebottom: 11pt4pt; colorborder-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(0225, 0225, 0225); verticaltext-align: baselinejustify; white"><span style="font-spacefamily: prearial,helvetica,sans-wrapserif;">Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer<span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-to2f83-peer training.</spanb0f70301144d"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="linestyle="font-heightsize: 1.6819pt; margin-topcolor: 0ptrgb(0, 0, 0); marginfont-bottomweight: 400; font-style: 6ptitalic; textvertical-align: justifybaseline;"><span style="fontwhite-familyspace:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">Assessing Logistics</span></span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d">&nbsp;</span></spanp><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.6838; margin-top: 4pt0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt; border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(225, 225, 225)0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 19pt11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontbackground-weightcolor: 400; font-style: italictransparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assessing Logistics</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arialDetermine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it that is not optimal it is worth considering a move,helveticaas long as it is an upgrade. The library provided an ideal,sans-serif;"><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1central location on Boise’s campus. This allowed students to come in to an open work environment in a comfortable place. Theirs was initially a small room with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it to become the room with best internet connectivity on campus.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"></span ></p><p style="fonttext-sizealign: 11ptjustify; color"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: rgb(0, 0, 0)1.38; backgroundmargin-colortop: transparent0pt; verticalmargin-alignbottom: baseline0pt; text-align: justify; white"><span style="font-spacefamily: prearial,helvetica,sans-wrapserif;">Determine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it that is not optimal it is worth considering a move, as long as it is an upgrade. The library provided an ideal<span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, central location on Boise’s campus. This allowed students 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supplies are another important aspect to come in to an open work environment in a comfortable placeassess. Theirs was initially Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a small room computer with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it useful programs and works up to become the room with best internet connectivity on campusadvanced equipment like resin-based printers and CNC mill.At Boise they began with </span></span></span></p><p style="textfont-alignsize: justify10.5pt;"><span style="fontcolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-familyspace:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;"><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="lineReprap printers but progressed to newer, easier-to-height: 1assemble Lulzbot printers next.38; marginThey covered the walls with whiteboard paint and even green-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; textscreen paint-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docstwo of the strongest draws for students of differing interests or from other organizations. In addition, they added a soldering station for electronics, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</span></span></span ></p><p style="fonttext-sizealign: 11ptjustify; color"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: rgb(0, 0, 0)1.38; backgroundmargin-colortop: transparent0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; verticaltext-align: baselinejustify; white"><span style="font-spacefamily: prearial,helvetica,sans-wrapserif;">Supplies are another important aspect to assess. Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a computer with useful programs and works up to advanced equipment like resin<span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-based printers and CNC mill. At Boise they began with </spanb0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reprap printers but progressed to newerEven without these expensive materials, easier-to-assemble Lulzbot printers next. They covered the walls a vibrant community with whiteboard paint a strong maker culture will keep people coming and even greengathering there.</span><span style="font-screen paint---two of the strongest draws for students of differing interests or from other organizations. In additionsize: 11pt; color: rgb(0, they added a soldering station for electronics0, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course0); background-specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</spancolor: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">W</span></span></p><p style="textfont-alignsize: justify10.5pt;"><span style="font-familycolor:arialrgb(0,helvetica0,sans0); vertical-serifalign: baseline;"><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-heightwhite-space: 1.38; marginpre-top: 0ptwrap; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial">orkshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise they held special workshops focused on Arduinos,helveticaknitting, women’s night,sans-serif;"plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skills.</span></span id></span></p><p style="docstext-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144dalign: justify;"><span /p><p dir="ltr" style="fontline-sizeheight: 101.5pt38; colormargin-top: rgb(0, 0, 0)0pt; verticalmargin-alignbottom: baseline0pt; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrapjustify;">Even without these expensive materials, a vibrant community with a strong maker culture will keep people coming and gathering there.</span><span style<span style="font-sizefamily: 11pt; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); backgroundsans-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapserif;">W</span><span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-size: 10.35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">orkshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise they held special workshops focused on Arduinos, knitting, women’s night, plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skillsfuture.</span></span></span></p><p style="textfont-alignsize: justify11pt;"><span style="font-familycolor:arialrgb(0,helvetica0,sans0); background-serifcolor: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="linevertical-heightalign: 1.38baseline; marginwhite-topspace: 0pt; marginpre-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justifywrap;"><span style="fontInter-family:arialdepartmental politics,helveticaspace concerns,sans-serif;">and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boise. To overcome them, they looked at</span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the future. <the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inter-departmental politics, space concerns, Vertically Integrated Project program and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boisevarious grants to bring in funding. It was important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects. To overcome them, they looked at</span></span></span ></p><p style="fonttext-sizealign: 10.5ptjustify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font"><br/></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-styleheight: italic1.68; verticalmargin-aligntop: baseline4pt; whitemargin-spacebottom: pre4pt; border-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10bottom: 0.5pt; color: 75pt solid rgb(0225, 0225, 0225); verticaltext-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapjustify;">the </spanstyle="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 11pt19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backgroundfont-weight: 400; font-colorstyle: transparentitalic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vertically Integrated Project program and various grants to bring in funding. It was important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects.</span></span></span>Involving Students</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.6838; margin-top: 4pt0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt0pt; bordertext-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(225, 225, 225); text-alignalign: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 19pt11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Involving Students</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"Student leaders are necessary if the makerspace is to run smoothly. At Boise they’re considering a new group of VIPs; students who get credit for the time they put in there. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span><br/span></span></p><p dirstyle="text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student leaders are necessary if To help create an inviting atmosphere, it’s vital to train every user of the makerspace is to run smoothlyon how they can reach out and welcome newcomers. At Boise they’re considering a A positive first contact can make all the difference for new group of VIPs; students who get credit for want to see what the time they put in theremaker culture is all about. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span></span></span></p><p style="38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="linestyle="font-heightsize: 1.3811pt; margin-topcolor: 0ptrgb(0, 0, 0); marginvertical-bottomalign: 0ptbaseline; textwhite-alignspace: justifypre-wrap;"></span></span></span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-35c752e06613fd9f-647b64b4-d08c6950-2f832d29-b0f70301144d7eba5405d8a7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To help create an inviting atmosphereAt Boise, it’s vital to train every user of as people enter the makerspace on how library’s door, they can reach out face an interdisciplinary space where students train other students to use 3D printers and welcome newcomersother creative technologies. A positive first contact can The focus is to make all the difference for new students who want feel that they have freedom of expression.The importance of having this space is to see what the maker culture is all about.</span>provide students with an atmosphere where they can think on creative solutions working with others.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sansArial; font-serifsize: 11pt;"><br/><br/></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="linewhite-space: pre-height: 1.38wrap; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;""><span style="font-family:arialStudents today focus too much on their grades,helvetica,sans-serif;so we learned that it’s important to “frame the discussion in terms of skill building and marketability."By approaching students early and letting them see the benefits of working with people from other disciplines, they surely become more interested in what these amazing spaces can offer them.</span><span id="docs-internal/p><div><br/></div><div style="text-guid-35c752e0-647b-d08c-2f83-b0f70301144dalign: justify; "><span stylefont color="#000000" face="fontarial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapwrap;">''Written By:''</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"</span></font><br/></div><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Reynaldo_Duran <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Reynaldo Duran</span><br/></span></span>]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicole Pollak</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Tim Straus</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Ted Zipoy</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></span></span></span></p>