by Nick | Jul 31, 2023 | Events + Activities
Maker Commons hosted an Upcycled Fashion Design Challenge as part of Penn State Startup Week. Student teams created upcycled t-shirt brands that made sustainability statements. Teams used sewing machines, Cricut Makers, and heat presses to cut and apply custom designs...
by Nick | Jul 31, 2023 | Events + Activities
In June, Maker Commons welcomed Commonwealth campus librarians and staff to an afternoon exploratory session for anyone adding Cricut resources to their spaces. This open session invited Commonwealth Cricut Creators to get hands on with technology they might already...
by Nick | Jul 31, 2023 | Events + Activities
Maker Commons participated in PoetryFest at Three Dots in downtown State College. Participants made bookmarks with vinyl cut from our Cricut machine and infusible ink poems printed with dye...
by Nick | Jul 31, 2023 | Class Project, Maker Commons, Paper Craft, Textiles
Marc Miller’s Landscape Architecture course, LARCH 414, Design and Theory V: Advanced Landscape Architectural Design, participated in an Adobe Express and dye sublimation printing workshop to create custom t-shirts and socks for their final presentations. They also...
by Nick | Jul 31, 2023 | Class Project, IMEX Lab
Bill Cantor from Penn State York had his Management Information Systems 404 class participate in the Immersive Headset Pilot program. Students from York, Abington, and Harrisburg were provided with Meta Quest 2 headsets and used Horizon Workrooms to meet online for...
