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====== Our History ====== | ====== Our History ====== | ||
- | In late 2012, John Eich and Karen Corbeill were separately working on creating more opportunities for makers in Madison. | + | In late 2012, [[members: |
In early 2013, they created MadCity Makers, a social club for makers that met in public libraries and coffee shops. They taught a summer series of workshops at libraries, from Cigar Box Guitars and Little Free Libraries to Spin Art and Blinky Bugs. They hosted a welding workshop out of John's garage. Arduino and Raspberry Pi's were explored, knitting and crochet circles were held, and a [[http:// | In early 2013, they created MadCity Makers, a social club for makers that met in public libraries and coffee shops. They taught a summer series of workshops at libraries, from Cigar Box Guitars and Little Free Libraries to Spin Art and Blinky Bugs. They hosted a welding workshop out of John's garage. Arduino and Raspberry Pi's were explored, knitting and crochet circles were held, and a [[http:// | ||
- | After a time, it felt like we needed a space to call our own, to share tools and host activities that libraries aren't set up to handle. | + | After a time, it felt like the group needed a space to call our own, to share tools and host activities that libraries aren't set up to handle. |
- | So we begged our friends | + | So we approached James Pittman and JT Smith to create |
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+ | Within a year we were bursting at the seams of the 900 sq ft space, and started looking for larger buildings. After several dead ends, we found a great new space on **Robertson Road**, with 3,400 sq feet, a separate room for " | ||
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+ | In November of 2015, the IRS recognized us as a 501(c)3. | ||
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+ | After two years in that immense space, every tool area is bursting at the seams, members are flowing around each other as they build things, and we're scratching our heads to find more storage! |
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