Call for Volunteers It’s that time of year! The Fort Collins Creator Hub is again going to have a booth at New West Fest. If you don’t know what that is – it’s a free music festival that takes over Old Town Fort Collins August 11-12. In between the many performance stages are vendor booths from …
The Fort Collins Creator Hub helped recreate some of the projects illustrated in Dr. Grandin’s new book “Calling All Minds”. Her message in her book is clear: Make things. Work with your hands. Roll up your sleeves. Put on your thinking cap and let your imagination run wild! We had a fair number of kids …
Help us build a quality wood shop. If you have ever done much wood working, you probably realize that a good shop revolves around a key piece of equipment – the table saw. Almost all wood projects start with cutting wood stock to the proper size. A quality table saw makes this job a fast, safe and accurate …
Looking for some fun and exciting camps for your kids this summer? Look no further! We will be hosting two camps this summer, both related to the theatre. We are partnering with Yendra Built and Bas Bleu Theatre to offer a costume design and leathercraft camp as well as a set design and woodworking camp. …
Creator Hub to offer Theatre Maker Camps this Summer! Read More »
We have two exciting announcements to make! The first announcement is that we now have staffed business hours. Thanks to an Encore Fellowship grant from Intel, we have been able to pay a contractor to staff the space since mid-January. His name is Susith and his office hours at the space are Tuesday, Thursday and …
Here is! Thanks to Zach, Steve and Erik for delivering the palette racks. Thanks to the members of the board who unloaded the trailer, and thanks to our wonderful volunteers who came in to build the shelving. We will now have more floorspace to add new equipment and have a separated area for a classroom. …
At Barnes and Noble: The Fort Collins Creator Hub worked the Barnes and Noble Maker Fair and Book Fair this past weekend. We showed off some of our maker projects and held a little paper rocket building class for the kids on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The weather was perfect for launching the rockets in …
Hey! The Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire and Bookfair are this weekend! Come to the fair and support your makerspace. When you buy selected items in person at the College Avenue Barns and Noble bookstore either show the person at the register this voucher or tell them you are here for the bookfair and …
Quick! Our Samba band is doing a special Halloween gig TOMORROW and our band leader says the theme is gonna be “Day Of The Dead”*. Looks like I have to cook up a costume real soon. While I can work out the details with the face paint and hat and other possible hand held …
Quick Costume Idea (Halloween is only 4 days away!) Read More »
The Fort Collins Creator Hub was nominated by our fellow spaces in Colorado to fill out a survey about our makerspace sent by the White House a few weeks ago. Because of that survey, I was invited by Andrew Coy, Senior Advisor for Making (in the Office of Science and Technology Policy) at the White House, to …
Fort Collins Creator Hub at Nation of Makers meeting in Washington DC Read More »
