Photo Gallery March 14, 2023

UC Davis Craft Center and Beta Lab Partner on Maker Space

New collaboration celebrated at open house

Chancellor May stands in front of an audience at the Craft Center.

Chancellor May pulls a cover off an easel, revealing a sign that reads "Come as You Are to the Craft Center."

Chancellor May receives a demonstration from a student in the Craft Center.

A t-shirt with the screen printed message "Go Ags! UC Davis."

Chancellor May stands in the Craft Center in front of shelves of canvases and screen printing stations.

Chancellor May holds a screen-printed shirt in his hands while speaking to students standing around him.

Chancellor May holds a wood-burned cutting board in his hands and smiles. Two UC Davis staff members stand on either side of him.

Lee Martin stands at a lab table with two college students and, together, they look down at an experiment in front of them.

Lee Martin stands in front of a black chalkboard and speaks to two college students.

Different wood-burned images rest on shelving in a Craft Center room.

Lee Martin speaks with another person while gesturing toward a large, square device.

A college student gestures toward a 3D printer and speaks to another person standing in front of him.

Several people stand around a large scanner while one student speaks to them.

Lee Martin stands next to a scanner and gestures to it while speaking to others.

A student holds up a blank piece of white paper while a second student laughs and looks at it.

Entrance to the Maker Space with a spray painted metallic bust on the door.

Wood piece with a screen printed llama head that reads "#UCD Craft Center" in blue font.

The School of Education’s Beta Lab and the UC Davis Craft Center showcased their new collaboration at a February 15, 2023, open house event. Chancellor Gary S. May spoke to visitors and gave a screenprinting demonstration.

The newly renovated Maker Space in the Craft Center will be used as a Beta Lab classroom where K-12 students will have hands-on access to equipment such as a 3D printer, vinyl cutter and soldering kits, and have opportunities to incorporate multidisciplinary crafting into their modern designs. The Maker Space machines allow students to enhance wood, ceramics, and screenprinting studio projects as well as individual arts and crafts. UC Davis students and community members enrolled in classes at the Craft Center will be able to use the Maker Space during studio hours, as well.

Founded by principal investigator Prof. Lee Martin, the Beta Lab studies how young people learn and develop through participation in making and the Maker Movement, including investigating the nature of learning that occurs during extended, youth-driven maker projects, and designing learning environments and tools to support learning through making.

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Location: UC Davis Craft Center, 430 Hutchison Drive, South Silo Bldg. Rm. 144, Davis, 95616

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