The CoLab Makerspace’s CNC wood-cutting machine. Photo: Ben Siegel
For today’s students to succeed in school and in the workplace, they need a particular set of skills. Skills they have acquired since elementary school. Skills that make them competitive in today’s job market.
Some of those skills include critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication — all pillars of the new space in Ohio University’s CoLab: The CoLab Makerspace.
CoLab, which opened in 2018, is a physical hub in OHIO’s Alden Library that enables and empowers students to live and grow through innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. Its new makerspace opened on Jan. 13, 2020, after a crowdfunding effort to furnish the space with typical equipment found in academic makerspaces.
Students from every background are invited…
