Maker Stories
Valentine-themed Makerspace workshop marries physics and chocolate-making for a bit of educational fun.
From clothes that light up to vacuum-formed chocolate molds, the Mount Holyoke College Makerspace offers tools and training to create and collaborate.
The new Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab is now open for your projects, inspirations, creativity and persistence.
The Makerspace prepares future leaders by combining technology and the liberal arts to teach and engage students studying every academic discipline.
Thanks a generous grant, MHC’s new MEDIAL Project is integrating arts and technology and giving students resources to create, exhibit and perform.
Nancie Fimbel ’68 has helped create a space where today’s students can expand the limits of their education with tools and technology.
Misha Oraa Ali ’17 explores the art in neuroscience—and vice versa—through a self-designed project.
Forward-looking technology takes on ancient species. Read a blog by Anna MacDonnell ’21.
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.
MHC 2015 HackHolyoke was so inspiring to a Berkshire Community College engineering student that she decided to host her own hackathon.
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.
Two distinct curricular worlds— art and robotics—collide in a cross-disciplinary project between studio art and computer science.
Original art can be used to explore many topics, local high schoolers learn through a program offered by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Reactive dog? Calm robot. Stella Elwood ’19 introduces Simon the Safer Socializing Bot (S3B), a product of the Makerspace.
Mount Holyoke College offers two summer STEM courses for girls and women, which were featured in the Huffington Post.
Stella Elwood ’19 turns to the Makerspace to create an effective, affordable tool for use in veterinary medicine.
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.
Mount Holyoke’s IDesign Studio demystifies technology, sparks artistic creativity, fuels entrepreneurial spirit and encourages risk-taking across academia.
The Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab provides 8,000 square feet where students can implement, adapt and expand diverse concepts of creation.
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.
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.
Computer science major Regina Ye ’18 launches a travel-cosmetics company. Read her blog.
Shebati Sengupta ’19 discusses an art installation that grew out a creative project for the Global Movements: Migrations, Refugees, and Diasporas course.