Feb. 1, 2015, 9:28 p.m. ET
BURLINGTON – One day last fall, a bunch of Boone County kids decided there just aren’t enough places where kids can make stuff.
Four months later, they have that space.
So, in as much time as it takes for adults to order coffee, they drew up plans, a budget and a video and got their school district to agree to create that place.
It all started when the friends heard about something called Makerspace.
That’s a place where kids can come and experiment and invent and play and learn with all kinds of cool tech gadgets.
In September, several kids who all are on robotics teams in Boone County went to a Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire and saw “a bunch of cool inventions,” 12-year-old Wyatt Richards explained. That’s when they all started researching Makerspaces.
“We don’t have any Makerspaces in Kentucky,” Wyatt lamented.
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