When City College’s Makerspace was in its inception, a UPS truck packed full of equipment pulled into the loading zone. Even with the help of volunteers, it took hours to unload, Professor Tom Cappelletti recalled.
Cappelletti, professor of design and digital media at Makerspace, has spent the past two years creating a place for students to dabble in different elements of creativity such as 3-D printing and textiles.
“The Makerspace is an interdisciplinary hub of hands-on learning,” Cappelletti said. “We want it to be a casual environment but offer students tech tools, traditional tools encourage them to build projects in whatever discipline they come to us.”
According to Cappelletti, Makerspace has been focused on expanding and improving the program, and a partnership with Hacker Lab—an all-in-one makerspace, coworking…
