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2: Makerspaces/ULabs
05/19/2017
2: Makerspaces/ULabs
In this episode, Andrew Blick and Jamie May, graduate students in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program, investigate the maker movement by visiting or U[biquitous] Labs, a makerspace in Lubbock, Texas, and interviewing Jon Turner, ULab’s director of marketing. As Jon describes in the episode, the mission of ULabs is "to have a place where you can come, you can create, you can make." During this episode, we explore ULabs's origins as a community-engaged nonprofit, learn about the events and programming supported by ULabs, and hear how users are using the space. Through this project, we hope to contextualize the maker movement and to help promote awareness of ULabs. Introductory music is the opening of "No Ska Today" by Skabrot (available on ) plus some radio interference and static from freesound.org. This episode features music from Nicolai Heidlas Music ("Drive," available on ) and freesound.org (Goran Andric's "," day_tripper13's "," Tristan Lohengrin's "," and Lemoncreme's ""), as well as other sounds from freesound.org: , , , and . Listeners who are interested in makerspaces might check out , Educause's "," in Lubbock and their , and the .
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