Maker Space.
At a Manufacturer’s conference this past Spring, employers were discussing the aversion of college students to jobs in “Manufacturing”. This word, they feared, represented blue-collar “grunt” work and that’s misleading, as manufacturing jobs today require high-level programming, engineering and other scientific skills. “We’ll have to start calling ourselves 'Makers',” the speaker said.
I thought, wow, that’s so artsy-craftsy, how could that possibly work? But further exploration quickly revealed collaborative facilities where really smart people get together to play with hi-tech tools and solve ...
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