Welcome & What is a Makerspace?

Mission Statement

The Warrior Fab Lab seeks to be an inclusive community of educators, learners, and makers that supports a wide range of activities in creativity, education, research, and entrepreneurship. As a disruptor space, and campus resource, we encourage Innovation through experimentation, failure, collaboration, communication, and adaptability. Our primary goal of Education is to promote equitable access to emerging technology for the Empowerment of students, staff, faculty, administrators to be agents of change within the campus and regional community.

What is a makerspace?

A makerspace is a place designated for making. It can include the simplest materials to industrial equipment. A makerspace is a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor, to invent, to share and educate.

What is a “Fab Lab”?

A digital fabrication lab is a type of makerspace that specifically focuses on digital resources and computer-controlled machines and will have 3D printers, laser cutters, and other equipment. Although rooted in technology, the space is designed for a hands-on, creative learning approach to individual growth and community building through a combination of analog and digital processes. The concept was developed by Neil Gershenfeld from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center of Bits and Atoms.

While each makerspace is different, based on the resources available and community of users, they all share a common, inherent quality as a place to engage in creative learning to make things. Makerspaces can be found inside schools, libraries, and separate public or private facilities for learning, exploring and sharing of information. Fab labs provide the infrastructure and manufacturing equipment indispensable to turn ideas and concepts into reality in a risk-free and low-cost manner.