丹尼尔·威尔逊

2023年3月3日

萨克州立大学的一个新场地将为艺术家、企业家、创新者和创造者提供一个将他们的项目、设计和想法变为现实的地方。

The StingerStudio Makerspace — on the first floor of the University 图书馆, next to the Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship — held its grand opening on March 1.

“We think of libraries as being in the book business, but in reality, libraries are in the business of thinking, learning, and doing,” said Amy Kautzman, dean of the University 图书馆. “This makerspace will be interdisciplinary, fun, challenging, and adventurous – in other words, a 萨克拉门托 State educational experience.”

盛大的开幕式允许与会者评估场地，并听取几位演讲者的演讲，其中包括考茨曼； StingerStudio学生助理、土木工程专业学生罗迪娜·阿卜杜勒哈菲兹（Rodaina Abdelhafiz）； 研究、创新和经济发展办公室助理副总裁伊冯·哈里斯； 以及教务长卡洛斯·内瓦雷斯。

StingerStudio包括3D打印机、虚拟现实和增强现实耳机、演示练习室、缝纫和绣花机、编程电子套件、制作贴纸的乙烯基机、用于塑造材料和蚀刻设计的激光切割机等设备。

通过卡尔森中心（Carlsen Center）进入，这个创客空间横跨四个房间，总面积约为5000平方英尺（约合4800平方米）。 它是由建筑公司Lionakis的Aaron Buehring设计的，这个空间将根据用户的反馈而发展，Kautzman说。

该项目的资金估计约为64万美元，由捐助者提供，包括Pramila和Indru Kriplani，前大学图书馆院长Herb Drummond的遗产，以及其他大学组织。

Kautzman说，StingerStudio的建造历时七年，计划于2020年开始施工，直到疫情爆发和供应问题造成延误。

除了装修和建筑费用外，为StingerStudio筹集的资金还用于购买设备。 该空间的其他必需品来自社区合作伙伴，Kautzman说。 她还感谢了捐赠家具的哈斯凯尔家具公司。

部分由于延迟，在2022年秋季学期建立了一个弹出式创客空间，作为永久空间的试运行。 它吸引了700多名用户，没有宣传或推广，考茨曼说。

“(That) solidified our perception on how popular this space will be,” Kautzman said. “It confirmed our confidence in the necessity of this sort of program.”

StingerStudio可供学生和教师进行实验和探索，但其主要目的是支持与教师就特定课程进行合作。

“I think the model of instruction that we’re envisioning here is that you run a class, and you assign a project, and the project can be completed in a variety of different ways and tools,” including use of tools in the makerspace, said Erik Beck, head of 图书馆 Information Systems and one of the developers of the makerspace.

他说，这个空间可以用来简单地教授如何使用这些设备，也可以为当地的年轻人举办营地。

“There is a broader movement in colleges, universities, and K-12 for building makerspaces to develop technical competencies,” Beck said. “The idea of the makerspace is to serve those dual purposes.”

创客空间和教学支持技术人员普雷斯顿·托贝里（Preston Tobery）受聘经营创客空间，并在设计中发挥了作用。他说，一个挑战将是吸引那些可能不知道如何利用这个空间的教师。

“Trying to be a part of every college on campus is going to be our main goal,” Tobery said. “STEM (science, technology, engineering and math education) is easy with this kind of space. It’s the humanities side that’s the key to get into. Working in makerspaces for quite a long time, I’ve found that it’s really important for, especially students, to have access to this type of equipment.”

这种机会对许多学生来说意义重大。 萨克拉门托 lost a major resource for makers when 中城的创客空间和联合办公空间Hacker Lab于去年夏天关闭. StingerStudio可以为社区填补这一空白，但它真正关注的是学生。

“We can do less now without the Hacker Lab, but we have a very different mission, a very different purpose,” Beck said. “We’re an educational space, so we get people started down that path.”

More funds are needed to expand StingerStudio’s hours and hire a director, as well as set up endowments and finance other amenities, Kautzman said. 然而，她强调，她很期待看到学生们将创造什么。

“I want students to find their people, to uncover their passions, and to develop workforce and problem-solving skills,” she said. “So much of what we hope to impart in the StingerStudio is applicable to today’s career marketplace. We’re already witnessing innovative teaching in this space. We can’t wait for the magic to begin on a larger scale.”

StingerStudio位于大学图书馆1529室，周一至周五上午9点至下午5点开放，学生、员工和教职员工可持有效的OneCard使用。