Making with a Purpose Inspires Students
Folsom Lake College student makers are collaborating with Moorpark College students to inspire making at home during isolation. The students have the goal of folding 1000 cranes to signify hope and have posted instructions online so other students and makers can join them. Go to
MCMakerspace on Instagram to learn more about the crane project.
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Students from Sacramento City College Makerspace are working out of Hacker Lab in Sacramento to contribute to Operation Shields Up, according to Tom Cappelletti, Faculty Project Director, SCC Makerspace. SCC students are also sewing cloth masks and producing ear savers for masks.
Folsom Lake College (FLC) makerspace student workers are using 3D printers at home to produce PPE and are sewing masks. These are being distributed with help from Zack Dowell, Instructional Design and Development Coordinator, Innovation Center, FLC, to Marshall Hospital as well as supporting the Matter Hackers Project and Operation Shields Up.
Two Sierra College students, Alliya Smith-Brown and Kai Ulrich, were featured speakers on a national monthly “Make For All Community Call” on April 28, focusing on how makerspaces are helping to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using 3D printers on loan, Smith-Brown and Ulrich are building PPE parts in their homes for Operation Shields Up. To date, they have produced 170 head band structures for the effort. Ulrich was profiled on ABC10 for his work on this project.
Sierra College student maker working on PPE.
The all-volunteer #OpShieldsUp initiative, founded by Hacker Lab member, Alan Puccinelli, is producing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for front-line care providers in partnership with Hacker Lab, Masks For Docs and Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society, with volunteers, makerspace members and local manufacturers. Go to
OpShieldsUp.org to learn more.