SOUTH SALT LAKE — Every Friday, dozens of people head to Utah’s STEM Action Center in South Salt Lake for a special event called Tinker Time.
Tami Goetz, the director of the STEM Action Center, said Tinker Time came about a year ago when she was sitting in her office and three little girls started banging on the glass outside the MakerSpace. The MakerSpace is a 2,000 square-foot workspace with a laser cutter, 3D printers, sewing machines, an embroidery machine, a heat press, a CNC mill, soldering irons, a sublimation printer, a large format printer, a table saw, a miter saw, welding equipment and other hand tools.
“They must have been maybe eight years old, nine, and they wouldn’t know what we were doing in here. And so I let them in, showed them around,” Goetz fondly remembers. “Those three little girls came in on a Friday afternoon after school because it’s an early release….
