Soon after the Nicholson School of Communication and Media opened a new 3,500-square-foot Games and Interactive Media Maker Space last fall, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced the closure of the lab on the UCF Downtown campus.
But after a redesign of the floor plan for the laser cutter, 3D printer, recording studio, AR/VR equipment and other instruments, the Maker Space has opened again with a maximum of 16 people at a time allowed to use the facility.
“I had a few graduate students working on awesome projects that had to be stopped in the middle of their development due to [COVID-19],” says Jordan Lipscomb, who manages the space and is an adjunct faculty for front-end web design.
To reopen the lab for students, Lipscomb and leadership from NSCM and the College of Sciences took steps to convert the lab into a Tier 5 research space – a designation that recognizes the…
