For much of March, Aurora College ran an engaging and educational maker space workshop in Aklavik’s old hamlet chambers.
The event required a coordinated effort to pull off, but was ultimately a big success, according to program manager Jennifer Rafferty.
“Anytime you undertake the delivery of a workshop that involves a lot of equipment and new technology, and getting it from down south all the way up to the Arctic, there’s so many logistics and so many little things that need to happen,” she said. “The fact that we’ve been able to deliver this with our partners is really wonderful.
“A project of this magnitude, it really requires many partners and many people contributing to it. This really was a collaborative team effort.”
The maker space workshop was broken into three segments between March 3-19. Seven people signed up — one shy of the eight-person limit….