DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – A brand new, state of the art facility known as a ‘makerspace’ is getting ready for it’s Grand Opening in Decatur tomorrow.
“It’s a unique space,” Sam Johnson, President of Thinkwell said. “Makerspaces are showing up all across the globe and Decatur, as a maker town, it’s about time we had our own maker space.”
Creativity has always been a strength to the Decatur community, but it has lacked a place where people can come together and share ideas, something that Thinkwell hopes their makerspace will become.
“A lot of times it’s not the expertise in the skills and the tools that’s lacking, it’s the ideas and the thing to plug it into,” Jesse Blunt, Executive Director of Thinkwell said. “That’s a big part of the makerspace is that…
