Whether you are looking to offer dynamic making experiences on site or through an easily transportable outreach program, Makers in Motion® gives you everything you need to empower your organization to inspire Makers through engaging, project-based learning experiences and social-emotional learning opportunities.
Digital fabrication education is more than just the tools and technology. We provide you with intensive training, standards-aligned lesson plans and curriculum, operational support and coaching, and consultation services, and we offer proven equipment inventory that will ignite a dynamic and effective Maker Space for your organization. In moving forward with a Makerspace, you are moving forward into a diverse network of Carnegie Science Center Makerspace partners.
Full Makerspace Installation and training
Consultations
Professional Development
Business Model, Operations, and Income Potential
Full Installation and Training
Our Full Makerspace Package is All-inclusive.
Makers in Motion® provides your organization with everything it needs to implement both an on-site and outreach Makerspace solution that empowers learners of all ages through engaging, accessible, project-based programming.
The key to success in digital fabrication education is how it is taught and integrated.
Digital fabrication education is more than just the tools and technology. It is how it is used, taught, and integrated. In addition to the equipment listed below, we provide you with intensive training, standards-aligned lesson plans and curriculum, operational support and coaching, and consultation services.
Equipment Package
- 3D printers (2)
- Laser cutter and accessories
- Vinyl cutter
- Portable CNC router
- Design computers (18)
- Sphero(r) programming robots (5)
- iPads (3)
- Pop-up canopy
- 3D printing pens and filament (4)
- Makey Makey(r) conrtollers (5)
- Solder irons (2)
- Hands-on making tools
- Laptop cases (2)
- Shop vacuum
- Consumables for equipment
- Tactile-Assisted Design Kit*
- Folding table
- Safety goggles
- Retractable portable banner sign
- 3D printers (2)
- Laser cutter and accessories
- Vinyl cutter
- Portable CNC router
- Design computers (18)
- Sphero(r) programming robots (5)
- iPads (3)
- Pop-up canopy
- 3D printing pens and filament (4)
- Makey Makey(r) conrtollers (5)
- Solder irons (2)
- Hands-on making tools
- Laptop cases (2)
- Shop vacuum
- Consumables for equipment
- Tactile-Assisted Design Kit*
- Folding table
- Safety goggles
- Retractable portable banner sign
- 3D printers (2)
- Laser cutter and accessories
- Vinyl cutter
- Portable CNC router
- Design computers (18)
- Sphero(r) programming robots (5)
- iPads (3)
- Pop-up canopy
- 3D printing pens and filament (4)
- Makey Makey(r) conrtollers (5)
- Solder irons (2)
- Hands-on making tools
- Laptop cases (2)
- Shop vacuum
- Consumables for equipment
- Tactile-Assisted Design Kit*
- Folding table
- Safety goggles
- Retractable portable banner sign
*You can offer a Makerspace that is accessible to everyone. A Tactile-Assisted Design Kit is appropriate for people who are visually impaired and kinesthetic learners who respond best to a hands-on learning style. They build an object and feel how their design will be created. After constructing their design, it is imported into a CAD software application from which participants then digitally prototype their design using a laser or vinyl cutter. Just like all other participants in maker programs, they test, refine, and iterate their designs.
Should the purchasing site elect for the option of a Makerspace that can be transported to their different locations by vehicle, the purchasing site will provide a van and hydraulic lift that fits required specifications. If desired, the Makers in Motion® team can facilitate the purchase of the van and lift. This is not a requirement, and we are happy to provide a Makerspace that can be transported by carts throughout one building. Customization of any package may result in additional fees.
The above includes all components for our complete digital makerspace installation. These components work synergistically together to create the optimal Makerspace that follows our curriculum and training.
Consultation Packages
Whether you have your own equipment or are working to develop buy-in and resources from funders, the packages below can help you move beyond the world of making things and enter the world of making makers. Consultations through Makers in Motion encompass the training, collaboration, community, and partnerships that come together to help people educate themselves, empower their peers, and enhance their communities. With extensive experience with maker-centered education, BNY Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center’s consultations, professional development programs, and curricula can assist your envisioned or existing Makerspace to reach its full potential.
Makerspace Consultation
If your team is in the planning stages of a Makerspace, Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center can advise on equipment purchases and space logistics. If you have an established space, we can observe your operations and give our best practice feedback on how to optimize your processes.
Cost $4,500 at Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center / $4,750 at your location**
Molding a Makerspace
This suite allows you and your team to fully envision your Makerspace’s mission, as well as includes a deep dive into the tools and space needed to accomplish it. Over multiple sessions, Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center guides mission statement creation and helps you to develop a comprehensive hardware, software, and implementation plan. Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center then supports operational endeavors through monthly virtual consultation calls.
Cost $12,000 at Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center / $12,500 at your location**
1-hour follow-up consultations will be scheduled at times agreed upon by Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center and the requesting organizations. All 12 must be used within one calendar year from the time of purchase and timing must be agreed upon.
Professional Development Courses
The Fab Lab team has identified the top requests made by both new and established Makerspaces. Drawing on our years of experience with making tens of thousands of makers of all ages and abilities comfortable with high-tech design and tools, the Fab Lab team can quickly get yours to competency in the following areas:
- Computer-Aided Design for all skill levels
- 3D Printing
- Laser Cutter
- Vinyl Cutter
- CNC Routing
- Electronics and Soldering
- Mission statement creation or refinement
Cost $4,500 at Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center / $4,750 at your location**
Professional Development Courses are intended for a maximum of 16 participants and are up to 7.5 hours long.
Maximizing a Makerspace
This includes and expands upon the work done in the Molding a Makerspace suite by providing a standards-aligned and participant-tested curriculum. In order to ensure that your team can confidently deliver these single-session to multi-day lessons, Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center includes intensive training on the integrated curriculum.
$46,000 at Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center / $47,500 at your location**
1-hour follow-up consultations will be scheduled at times agreed upon by Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center and the requesting organizations. All 12 must be used within one calendar year from the time of purchase and timing must be agreed upon.
**Offsite courses, consultations, and packages can bring Fab Lab Carnegie Science Center’s Mobile Fab Lab to your organization. This may incur additional travel fees.
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Business Model and Operations
Makers in Motion® includes a detailed guidebook to help your organization through the training, piloting, and longer-term planning phases – including fiscal planning and budgeting – of your new mobile makerspace educational enterprise. Drawing on more than five years of experience conducting single-day programs, week-long events, field trips, teacher professional development sessions, summer camps, and even multiple-month, community-driven projects, Carnegie Science Center’s Fab Lab team gives you the tools you need to hit the road ready to make makers. We will work with your organization through regular virtual sessions to help integrate the Makers in Motion® mobile lab both within your organization and into the communities around it. Your mobile makerspace will be able to adapt to the communities who have touchpoints with it. We will guide you through this process and learn alongside you.
Income Potential
Working as a team, with the long-range goal of including your organization in a larger educational makerspace network that continues to grow with the addition of each new lab, we help get your new initiative into the communities where it is most needed. Makers in Motion allows you to create and deliver mission-driven programming that also stands to generate increasingly larger amounts of earned revenue, with the goal of becoming sustainable as rapidly as possible. This includes the potential for sponsorship opportunities utilizing your new mobile lab. Attractive to potential funders, the STEM-based, mission-driven programming allows for a diversified income stream, from out-of-pocket bookings to multi-year sponsorships.