MARIETTA, OH — Right next to the Washington County Boys and Girls Club in Harmar there is a building with a sign that says BB2C Makerspace. That would be the headquarters for the Washington County Building Bridges to Careers Makerspace. For anyone who doesn’t know what a makerspace is, it’s kind of like a workshop for anything. What do you want to make? Well here’s space and tools to make it. That’s the idea.
The local makerspace has art supplies, vinyl cutters, a heat press, sewing machines, various materials, patterns, laser engravers, HD cameras, a digital studio, 3D printers, a stained glass station, soldering irons, glass cutters, wet grinders, table saws, bandsaws, miter saws, planers, lathes, a drill press, hand tools, and a lot more.
They have a woodshop, a stained glass space, a tech space, a media space, a laser space, a fiber arts space,…