After more than a year of development and collaboration with students and faculty, Information Technology and Services (ITS) officially launched the SU MakerSpace with the opening of the fall semester. MakerSpaces, also known as fablabs, hackerspaces and techshops, are spaces where people can gather to design, create, invent, build, collaborate, teach and learn using do-it-yourself approaches. They are community centers for learning how to create with technology.
“SU MakerSpace embodies the next generation and continuing evolution of the computer lab,” says Jenny Gluck, ITS’s associate chief information officer for academic services. “In the same way that computer labs were established to provide access to technology that was otherwise out of reach, so does MakerSpace put cutting-edge tools, techniques and materials in the hands of our students and faculty. This will add to…
