Makerspace Inventory Reflection

The Makerspace Inventory assignment for this class was very beneficial. Like the previous assignments we have completed for this course, I feel like they are relevant, hands-on and extremely helpful. This served as a great practice for having to create a makerspace inventory during my career in the future, as well as practicing working with others (which is also something that will be done in the future at work!) The members in my group and I contributed our individual skills and shared ideas. We worked on a Google doc, sometimes synchronously and sometimes asynchronously. Using a Google doc made the group work very uncomplicated. We could contribute to the assignment separately and leave comments for each other on our own time, and we could also work together from our individual homes and message each other on the Google doc.

Our idea for the makerspace was a video production studio for local teenagers in grades 9–12 that have expressed interest in filmmaking, sound mixing, editing, cinematography, claymation and more. It was sort of a “dream” program for me. In our imaginary workplace at Palatine Library, we decided that out of the 4 local high schools (Palatine really does have 4 high schools), none of them have the equipment or a facility that the teens need to explore their film-related interests. Imagining that we had a $3,000 budget to create this video production studio at our library was rather fun. And who knows? This could totally happen! I can pitch the idea at my future workplace. And if it doesn’t happen, I can at least now say I have experience working with budgets.