The Butte College Makerspace was created to offer students the opportunity to gain valuable skills in making, using multiple equipment and software applications.
The Makerspace was created with a CCCMaker, State of California $500k grant over two years. The makerspace includes equipment that allows students to design and fabricate products and projects from multiple disciplines across campus. Students learn valuable skills in making, managing projects, and entrepreneurship.
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Strategy 1 - Build enrollment for FTE through registration in the makerspace.
For every hour that a student uses the makerspace, the school receives funding allocation.
The first semester the makerspace registered 255 students, and these students logged 950 hours, which brought in $3,600 for the school. This secodn semester, we registered 255 students in the firt two weeks of school.
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In 2019, and 2020 we have been allocated California Strong Workforce funding.
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
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| 1 | MSP/Makerspace | Personnel | 11-000-611-1-100700 | 51240 | $0.00 | $40,000.00 |
| Makerspace Technician | The Makerspace needs a full-time makerspace technician, to help manage and train student assistants from FWS and EOPS-FWS, work with the Director or FT Faculty manager, and to continue updating and repairing the $300k worth of equipment within the space. This individual is needed along with a Director or Faculty manager. |
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| 2 | Personnel | 11-000-512-1-160100 | 512-1-1601 | $0.00 | $22,550.00 | |
| 6 Student Assistants at 15hrs per week | Student assistants are the backbone of the Create Space makerspace. Our student assistants are able to gain valuable skills in using and managing the equipment in the lab, and are also extremely valuable in helping train and assist other students who come into the makerspace and need help with projects. We currently have six assistants and could use several more, but I feel six is a good number to be able to cover the hours the Space is open during the week. We have both EOPS WS and Federal WS students. |
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| 3 | MSP/Makerspace | Operating Expenses | 11-000-611-1-100700 | 55000 | $10,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Materials for makerspace equipment and maintenance funds | Each year, the Makerspace needs ongoing funding to purchase materials for equipment, such as 3D printer material, laser cutter materials, t-shirts, and ink. This funding will also be used for maintaining equipment. |
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| 4 | Makerspace | Equipment | 11-000-512-1-100230 | $30,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Roland Versa UV LEC2 64" Printer | Our current large format 55" Roland printer is 14 years old and at end of life. We paid $35,000 for it new and have put $5,000 into it over the last few years for repairs. They've stopped making parts for our Roland printer, and any day now we expect it to stop working and we won't be able to repair it. The new large format is faster, more versatile and prints larger format up to 64", allowing the Makerspace to print more products for students and the campus community. |
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| 5 | Makerspace | Equipment | 11-000-512-1-100230 | $18,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Kniterate: the Digital Knitting Machine | Kniterate is a compact digital knitting machine that can bring fashion fabrication into our Makerspace and allow students to create custom knitted products like scarves, beanies, shoe uppers, sweaters, dresses, and more. This brings technology to students in the Fashion program and offers all Maker students the opportunity to build textile skills. |
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| 6 | Makerspace | Equipment | 11-000-512-1-100230 | $12,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Large format 3D printer for printing 4 foot x 4 foot objects | The 3D printers we have in the makerspace are going 10-4 (and many times 24hrs a day for projects being created by students. As we build awareness about the Makerspace, more students from multiple disciplines across campus are asking to be able to 3D print larger items, and our current 3D printers are limited to 11 inches in height. A large format 3D printer will allow items such as full size car engines, furniture, robotics, engineering projects, and other oversized projects to be printed. |
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| 7 | MSP/Makerspace | Personnel | 11-000-611-1-100700 | 52210 | $0.00 | $60,000.00 |
| Makerspace Director | Focusing on Student Success, the makerspace Director is a critical position to move the makerspace into the future with ongoing outreach to the Campus Community and to the community at large. A basic technician is needed to educate and assist students in the successful, safe use of makerspace tools and equipment so they are prepared to enter specific industries for employment, but a full-time Director is needed to help maintain budgets, research and develop additional funding sources, and create a Space that can be sustainable in the future. (We either need a FT Director, or a Faculty member who can be given release time of up to 40% and a $10k a year stipend (no less than 30% Release) to manage all of the duties required by a Director) |
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| 8 | Makerspace | Equipment | 11-000-512-1-100230 | $13,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Smart White Board for instruction | The Makerspace (and two other labs in Arts) was never set up with a smart classroom projector or kiosk when the building was constructed. For twelve years we've been asking for a smart system that could be used to teach classes in the Makerspace, the Sculpture lab, and Ceramics lab. |
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