Fourth-years Matt Milanese, Owen Brown, Noah Balis, Alex Chou and Nora Patel working on a project in one of the Makerspace classrooms at Bolz Hall. Credit: Caleb Blake | Photo Editor
Ohio State’s Break and Make club is all about taking something outdated and imbuing it with a new purpose. This semester, they’re taking that “out with the old, in with the new” mantra one step further.
Founded in April 2023, Break and Make is an Ohio State student organization that provides students with the opportunity to scrap old, broken or dysfunctional technology to design new projects from the found materials via “reverse engineering,” according to the club’s Student Activities webpage. Though the group previously resided in Smith Laboratory’s basement, it has since moved to the new Makerspace, a lab located in Bolz Hall that offers work tables, tools and other resources for…
