Instilling a Maker Mindset on Campus: Case Studies and projects from the student perspective
World Maker Faire 2017
September 23rd-24th
Higher ed makerspace Student Leaders from Brandeis, UCONN, Wellesley and Colgate will convene to discuss the Projects, challenges and victories that each MakerSpace has encountered while supporting emerging technology and encouraging students to embrace it from a variety of disciplines.
Ian Roy
Director for Research Technology and Innovation at Brandeis University - Founding Head of Brandeis MakerLab - Staff Advisor to Brandeis 3D Printing Club - Staff advisor to Brandeis VR club - Hardware Advisor to BITMAP - Brandeis Class of '05 - Technology Evangelist - Drone Crasher - Diamond Photographer -Iai (居合) Shodan- Retired Ski Coach - Expert Button Pusher & Survivor
https://members.educause.edu/ian-roy
Jordan Tynes
Jordan Tynes is Manager of Scholarly Innovations at Wellesley College. He works across campus to develop interdisciplinary workflows and methodologies for many aspects of the higher education experience. Jordan often works with cutting-edge technologies to enable previously unfound ways of teaching, learning, conducting research, and communicating scholarly efforts.
http://members.educause.edu/tynesj
Tim Henning
Tim Henning is a UCONN undergraduate studying Engineering. Tim runs the 3D Printing club at UCONN and has participated in many design contests and Hackathons.
Aubrey Simonson
Aubrey enjoys finding new and more immersive ways to digitize physical spaces and objects. Some of their recent projects have included digitizing an antique human skeleton using photogrammetry, and 3D modeling the train car from Anna Karenina from an old schematic, in order allow students to experience highlights of the book in virtual reality.
https://www.wellesley.edu/lts/techsupport/knappmediacenter
Steven Tarr
Steven is an undergraduate at Brandeis studying Physics. He has worked at MakerDepot and the Brandeis MakerLab. He is currently working on a project to build a model that simulates fresh water lensing in atoll islands.
http://brandeismakerlab.com/
Kaylie Cox
Kaylie is an undergraduate at Wellesley College interested in finding ways to merge humanities with technology. As a Classics major and Knapp Media and Technology Intern, Kaylie has been involved with digitizing an archaeological site in Greece and the artifacts discovered there, as well as helping to turn the site into a 3D model and virtual reality setting.
https://www.wellesley.edu/lts/techsupport/knappmediacenter
