The Lawrence University Makerspace celebrated 10 years in fall of 2025. We celebrated with cake, coloring, and crafts!
See more photos in our Flickr album. Cheers to the next 10 years!
10 Year Celebration
WGSC 2024 Presentation
Marcy Quiason of the Gender Studies program and Angela Vanden Elzen from the library and makerspace had the opportunity to present at the 2024 Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference. We discussed the how and why of including maker-based assignments into gender studies classrooms, followed by a workshop in which participants built out a maker assignment for one of their courses. Resources we used at the presentation are available below.
- View our presentation (clicking the link will open PowerPoint in your browser in a new tab): Creating the Next Generation of Feminist Makers: Integrating Makerspace Activities Into Your Feminist Classroom​
- View or make a copy of the worksheet we distributed to help participants add a maker-based assignment to their courses (clicking the link will open Word in your browser in a new tab): Worksheet for Adding a Maker-Based Activity to a Course
- Professor Quiason’s Creative Assignment (clicking the link will open a PDF in your browser in a new tab): GEST 100 Quiason creative assignment.pdf If you use any parts of this assignment, please be sure to credit Marcy Quiason.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Angela or Marcy
Maker Literacies Project and Lesson Plans
We had the amazing opportunity to work with the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries for the second phase of the IMLS Maker Literacies project. For our part, three of our faculty at Lawrence University who were interested in using the makerspace with their courses created maker assignments using UTA’s Maker Competencies. As an academic makerspace, we’re thrilled that UTA has not only made the competencies available, but they’ve made a directory of course assignments available as well!
The Assignments from Lawrence University faculty
- RLST 215: Buddhism in India and Tibet with Professor Kassor
- PHYS 330: Physics Advanced Laboratory with Professors Martin and Koker
All Course Lesson Plans
- Filter lesson plans by maker competencies, discipline, partner, or year, or just browse the list at the Lesson Plans page.
Maker Competencies List
- Scroll through the Maker Competencies list to view each literacy along with subcomponents to further define each one. These competencies can easily be tied to course learning goals and outcomes and can be easily assessed at the end of the assignment.
We’re so grateful for the partners at the UTA Libraries, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Nevada Reno for taking on this large project and sharing so all academic and educational makerspaces could benefit!
Academic Makerspace Course Uses 2022
Learn about the cool stuff that students and faculty have been making in our academic makerspace in our summer coffeehouse presentation! Our makerspace is located in the library of a small liberal arts campus and serves all academic departments.
Go to the Makerspace Coffeehouse 2022 presentation
Contact us a makerspace@lawrence.edu if you’d like to talk academic makerspaces!