Maker Stories
Thanks a generous grant, MHC’s new MEDIAL Project is integrating arts and technology and giving students resources to create, exhibit and perform.
Two distinct curricular worlds— art and robotics—collide in a cross-disciplinary project between studio art and computer science.
MHC 2015 HackHolyoke was so inspiring to a Berkshire Community College engineering student that she decided to host her own hackathon.
Reactive dog? Calm robot. Stella Elwood ’19 introduces Simon the Safer Socializing Bot (S3B), a product of the Makerspace.
Erin Mullin ’17 adapted and customized code to create a 3-D-printed prosthetic hand that can be made for less than $50 and shared around the world.
Mount Holyoke College offers two summer STEM courses for girls and women, which were featured in the Huffington Post.
The new Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab is now open for your projects, inspirations, creativity and persistence.
Students in the iDesign Studio class in Computer Science and the Costuming II class in the Theater Department teamed up to create this short production.
Nancie Fimbel ’68 has helped create a space where today’s students can expand the limits of their education with tools and technology.
Jean reminded me, and every student in our class, that we are smart and fully capable of bringing change to an unwelcoming tech world dominated by men.
Shebati Sengupta ’19 discusses an art installation that grew out a creative project for the Global Movements: Migrations, Refugees, and Diasporas course.
The Makerspace prepares future leaders by combining technology and the liberal arts to teach and engage students studying every academic discipline.
Valentine-themed Makerspace workshop marries physics and chocolate-making for a bit of educational fun.
Original art can be used to explore many topics, local high schoolers learn through a program offered by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Mount Holyoke’s IDesign Studio demystifies technology, sparks artistic creativity, fuels entrepreneurial spirit and encourages risk-taking across academia.
Computer science major Regina Ye ’18 launches a travel-cosmetics company. Read her blog.
Stella Elwood ’19 turns to the Makerspace to create an effective, affordable tool for use in veterinary medicine.
Forward-looking technology takes on ancient species. Read a blog by Anna MacDonnell ’21.
The Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab provides 8,000 square feet where students can implement, adapt and expand diverse concepts of creation.
From clothes that light up to vacuum-formed chocolate molds, the Mount Holyoke College Makerspace offers tools and training to create and collaborate.
Interdisciplinary learning in the arts? Two 15th-century prints, two laser-cut woodblocks, a print press, two hands. Read a blog by Yiqi Chen ’21.
Using the Makerspace to introduce technology into 21st-century liberal arts.
Misha Oraa Ali ’17 explores the art in neuroscience—and vice versa—through a self-designed project.
The pilot year of a STEM camp for girls, a joint offering from Mount Holyoke College and the city of San Juan, brings education and renewed hope.