UNC-Chapel Hill is creating opportunities for students, faculty and staff to test and explore their ideas on campus through high-tech makerspaces, fostering a culture of makers. Be a Maker – or BeAM – is a network of four makerspaces across campus where Carolina’s community of innovators designs and creates physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.
With 4,000 users spending more than 50,000 hours in these spaces, check out this collection of stories and learn how students and faculty use makerspaces to take their ideas to a new level
Highlights include:
>>A new design and making course that teaches students to build perfect prototypes one failure at a time.
>>The Helping Hand Project, a student organization that uses 3-D printing to make prosthetic devices for children.
>>Feelin’ DNA, a student-founded venture that inspires the visually impaired community by providing 3-D-printed learning models to STEM classrooms.
>>The BLUE Innovation Community inside Carmichael Residence Hall, which includes a makerspace that helps students with prototyping, customer development, design thinking and more.
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