Programs & events · 2025 – now
Classes and instructors
A class for every machine, a curriculum I wrote much of and taught, and a model that turns makers into instructors.
Every machine has a class, booked through the site I built on SharePoint and logged in the class record book. I developed the Photo Lab classes, the laser class, sublimation and Cricut, brought 3D printing Fundamentals, Intermediate and TinkerCAD online, and taught almost half of all classes.
Classes I wrote: Bambu A1 Mini, Bambu P1S, TinkerCAD for 3D Printing, Laser: Falcon 2 Pro, Product Photography, Headshot / Passport, Image Gen: Brand & Promotion, Image Gen: Restore & Remix, Cricut, and Sublimation & Heat Press.
- Feb 2025: Introduction to Lithophanes, taught by a community instructor
- May 2025: Introduction to 3D CAD with FreeCAD, run twice
- Jul 2025: Print-in-Place workshop, the best received, now a step toward Supermaker
The Supermaker system turns regulars into teachers. One regular started as a maker, became an instructor, then finished the Supermaker prerequisites with the Print-in-Place workshop. In one month of fall 2024 I taught 13 classes and brought in 20 new makers.
Teaching is how the Makerspace keeps going without me in every room. Makers who finish classes can become instructors, and instructors who finish the prerequisites become Supermakers who help others. Every month we put on Make & Tell, where makers show what they built. The newest classes are my AI image generation series.