By Stephen Wilson
A 3D printer spools hot plastic filament to shape a tiny heart. When completed, it will be cast in silicone. That mold will then be filled with local Belgian chocolate.
Making never tasted so good.
It’s just one idea for engaging programming designed to attract students to a newly opened maker space in Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
If that idea is too sweet, then how about drone building or designing an electric skateboard?
Both are on deck.
Behind these ideas are several Dyer fellows and enthusiasts. Meet George Crittenden ’21, who saw the room when Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center opened and thought it would be a perfect place to engage students who have or want to develop “an entrepreneurial edge.”
“For students like me who are not an engineering major, you can have a hard time finding a maker space without being put on a…