COEUR d’ALENE- A new makerspace has arrived at the Coeur d’Alene Reservation. And this one rolled in on wheels.
You aren’t alone if you haven’t heard the term makerspace. All about collaboration, it’s a shared workplace in which people gather to make, invent and learn.
Called the Think, Make, Create lab, the space brings hundreds of educational activities to local students.
The TMC lab is a trailer outfitted with education materials, makers’ tools, art supplies and curriculum designed to support science, technology, engineering and math concepts.
Young people can come into the lab and take part in projects encouraging learning in the STEM fields.
“Our biggest motivator (for getting the makerspace) is the high need to fill these roles,” said Shaina Nomee, an…