Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. APPLETON — Running a makerspace is Cheyenne Fritsch’s passion. Cheyenne, 28, was elected as the president of the nonprofit ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. I got my first taste of "making" in April 2015, when I attended a ...

Excitement about school makerspaces has been in the air, but many educators eager to create hands-on learning spaces in their schools still aren’t sure how to get started or why it’s worth the effort.

It’s hard to believe that the destruction left by the May 16 tornadoes could produce anything beautiful, but as we’ve watched the community come together time and again, that perspective grows. Aiming ...

Dumpster diving and dollar stores. Purse-shaped post-it's and animal lubricant. When you're building a makerspace on a budget, you learn that resources are everywhere—and they aren't always what you ...

Makerspaces, where students, faculty and staff from diverse fields can come together to create, learn and work, are popping up on college and university campuses across the country. Here's how to ...

UCLA students can build electronic skateboards, a robot that plays the piano and other electronics at a new engineering makerspace. The makerspace, which will open in Boelter Hall on Wednesday, will ...

UNC's Undergraduate Library has a new edition on the entry level floor: the Library MakerSpace. The Library MakerSpace is a dedicated area to providing tools, expert help and a creative outlet for ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Not all heroes wear capes; some hold paint brushes and power tools. When DB Lampman and Scott Van Campen founded MakerSpace almost six years, they couldn’t possibly have ...

In a city where art and industry have long worked side by side, a new kind of workshop is taking shape: a 22,000-square-foot makerspace aimed at becoming an incubator for budding entrepreneurs and ...