This introductory suite of four “Make & Take” bootcamps is designed so participants will gain knowledge, skills and tangible tools to conceptualize, design, create and maintain vibrant makerspace communities, safe and accessible facilities, and join the growing worldwide network of university makerspaces and entrepreneurship programs to create an international community for sharing best practices about educating students to be entrepreneurial makers with real-world impact.
Recent bootcamps:
June 3-7, 2019, University of Derby, Derby UK, MIC Bootcamps 1 and 2:
• Entrepreneurial Makerspace Basics
• Tools, Technology, Safety, Staffing, Training
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MIC Bootcamps 1+2: Entrepreneurial Makerspace Basics and Tools, Technology, Safety, Staffing, Training
Bootcamp: June 3-7, 2019, University of Derby, Derby, UK
Everything you need to know about…
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- MIC Founding member universities, fee included in membership for up to 3 participants ($9000 value); additional participants at $3000 per person
- MIC Regular members, 50% fee for up to 3 participants, $1500 each ($4500 value); fee for additional participants, $3000 per person
- Non-MIC members, $3000 per person
- Defining and creating community
- Using a design process to develop makerspaces
- Programming the space
- Involving students to empower and feel ownership
- Engaging with faculty, alumni, etc
- Laying out space
- Funding and budgeting
- Using MIC Mobius platform as a resource for success
- Selecting basic equipment and training
- Making spaces accessible and useful to entrepreneurs
- Holistic understanding of safety, legal, regulatory issues and differences between them
- Safety-minded culture, the foundation of real safety in a makerspace
- Minimize barriers while maximizing access
- Important safety elements and setting up safety systems
- How to lay out for safety
- Finding and recruiting the right people to be trainers and mentors
- Hands-on experience with common maker technology
- Tiered training and access
- Assessment and credentialing
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Bootcamp 1+2 Schedule now available here
BOOTCAMP INSTRUCTORS:
MIC Bootcamp 3: Logistics, Programming, Sustainability
How to ensure that you will have the people and resources necessary to keep your makerspace going after the initial set up. You will learn how to manage the flows of:
Information:
- Machine scheduling
- People scheduling (staffing)
- Policy
- Communication: Internal
- Communication: External Messaging
- Governance models and decision making
Money:
- Budgets
- Fundraising
- Estimating and tracking cost
- Charges and fees
- Purchasing
People:
- Community events and programs—benefits to users
- Access controls
- Leadership and leader training
- Benefits of makerspace to staff/volunteers
Materials:
- Stock
- Small items
- Waste materials
- Storage
- Tooling
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
MIC Bootcamp 4: Critical Tools for Entrepreneurial Makerspaces
- Understanding the key characteristics, similarities and differences between makers and entrepreneurs
- The maker process for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship process for makers
- How to instill an understanding of business within a maker’s perspective and an understanding of making within an entrepreneur’s perspective
- Effectively developing entrepreneurship-literate makers and maker-literate entrepreneurs
- Avoiding team formation via ‘shotgun wedding’, helping entrepreneurs and makers mix and make teams
- Cultivating empathy, trust and teamwork between makers and entrepreneurs
- The Maker’s dilemma – When is too early or too late to start building a prototype
- The Entrepreneur’s dilemma – Processes and tools for deep dive into customer discovery; how to talk to human beings
- Getting from practical to practicable via the merging of design thinking, making and customer discovery
- Tools, activities and resources for managing the making + entrepreneurship process
Who Should Attend Bootcamps: Self AssessmentI need to go to a Make Impact Consortium bootcamp because:
• I will save time, money, and effort
• I will better understand the political landscape and how to navigate it
• I will run into people I really want to meet
• I will meet people in similar situations to mine and will learn from them
• I will tap into the global MIC network
• It will be an intense hands-on full-day experience and I will be immersed in the topics and never bored
• I can immediately use the experience to have immediate impact back on my own campus
• I will learn how to use the resources of the MIC Mobius portal to ensure success
• I will get “credentials” and become part of a new community of peersWhat MIC bootcamps will help you achieve:
• You will have the tools to easily make the case for why this experience will be valuable to you as an individual and to your school
• You will find value in learning things that you may not even realize you need to know
• You will save time and money by understanding the cost/benefit analysis of what portion of your space should be left flexible v constrained
• You will learn how to build new spaces and convert old legacy spaces into modern spaces
• You will learn how to influence key stakeholders (EHS, tech staff, etc) and build stakeholder buy-in and ownership
• You will have an opportunity to develop stakeholder empathy for team-building on your campus
• You will learn how to vet students to involve them in creating spaces that they and their peers will be excited to use
• You will leave with an action plan and an understanding of the challenges and opportunities you will face, as well as a way to establish priorities and plan your strategy
• You will learn how to leverage the resources of the MIC Mobius portal to tap into a global network committed to sharing best practicesWe pledge that you will receive:
• An opportunity for some 1:1 consulting time with Professor Martin Culpepper from MIT and other coaches
• An opportunity to learn proven best practices from experienced leaders in the field and how to articulate and communicate these processes
• An opportunity to get paired with peer partners “who have your back”
• A credential