the makerspace at Harvey Mudd<\/a> is dedicated to being a place where everyone feels comfortable working on a variety of projects. \u201cThe people we get in the makerspace aren\u2019t just engineers,\u201d Spencer says. \u201cWe pull in a lot of artists from all over The Claremont Colleges. We also get Mudd students who are interested in art, in addition to technical people from all over our campus. I think that\u2019s one of the real strengths of the makerspace.\u201d Projects that people produce there engage all parts of their training, Spencer says, \u201cfrom fine arts all the way to pretty serious engineering.\u201d
The makerspace also fosters collaboration among The Claremont Colleges, Spencer notes. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Mudders in the makerspace. It\u2019s a cool space in a neatly designed building that\u2019s available to the entire consortium. This helps our students take advantage of the consortium by meeting many different people. It\u2019s also good for belongingness. People who work in the makerspace feel a part of a community at Mudd.\u201d
As director, Spencer expects that he\u2019ll also help with fundraising for the makerspace and looks forward to sharing the story of this \u201cvery valuable space.\u201d
Spencer acknowledges the work of outgoing director Jeff Groves, who, he says, did a great job of getting things set up. \u201cKim Neal, the makerspace manager does just phenomenal work and really pours her heart and soul into her job. And thanks to the student stewards,\u201d Spencer says. \u201cIt takes all of us to make the place work, and I\u2019m honored to have been entrusted with this role.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Located on the first floor of the Scott A. McGregor Computer Science Center, the makerspace helps Harvey Mudd College foster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":12260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,967],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-faculty","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}