Makerspace OR Hackerspace?

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This will be another way to support the Junior Class "Makers".
Making Money [stock trading]
Making Music [learning a new instrument]
Making Chickens [Incubator]
Making Magic
Making Energy [Tesla Coil]
Making Flight [learning to be a pilot]
Making a Refrigerator
The Makerspace trend has become popular among progressive librarians. A number of libraries have created spaces with everything from knitting to 3-D printers. The goal is to become a place of creation, collaboration and communication. I wholeheartedly believe in these concepts, however at Webb we have other areas on campus where some of these projects like 3D printing are a better fit such as our art and science labs.
I have really embraced a specific library related trend. That trend is the learning and information commons idea. I suppose the two trends are similar. We also like the idea of a "Hackerspace". The library is the home to coding, video production, and video editing. Also, it is the home of several unusual clubs like Dungeons & Dragons and MineCraft.
Checkout this article from The School Library Journal
Makerspaces need not be one-size-fits-all kind of spaces
The Junior Project
The Junior class level was given the task of crafting a public performance which would allow students to express their individual creativity, to improve on skills they already knew or to learn a new creative endeavor and to share that creativity via a public presentation to include not only their creative project, but also to emphasize the public presentation of that project through effective public speaking.