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Wendt, Jake

Makerspace Student Staff Members Win U.S. Air Force Innovation Award

Posted on 12/11/2020

You may have seen Clayton Custer or Taylor Waddell roaming around the Makerspace in their signature black aprons. They’re both invaluable members of our staff, though they’ve been up to much more than just their …

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UW–MADISON LAUNCHES CAMPUS-WIDE EVENT CELEBRATING INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Posted on 11/12/2019

UW–Madison Launches Campus-Wide Event Celebrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Mobile research, photography studio to study national parks

Posted on 11/12/2019

Tomiko Jones hopes to tour national parks Years ago as an undergraduate student, Tomiko Jones learned from a Navajo potter that there was no word for “art” in his native language, suggesting instead that “art …

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Cheap, fast 3D printing is the goal of factory envisioned by Madison engineers

Posted on 04/22/2019

Originally Published by The Cap Times, written by Erik Lorenzsonn On the one hand, the two-year-old startup Zero Barrier Labs has a vision that’s pretty old-school: open up a factory in Madison specializing in metals manufacturing. Less …

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UW-Madison students design new legs for disabled cat

Posted on 03/01/2019

MADISON (WKOW) — A young cat gets a second chance, thanks to a group of UW-Madison engineering students. Sgt. Stubbs lost his two back legs last year in a train accident. Since then, he’s had …

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Engineers’ projects in focus as campus makerspace holds first “reverse career fair”

Posted on 02/14/2019

Engineering students at University of Wisconsin–Madison showed off a few projects to each other and to representatives of eight Wisconsin companies ranging from small and local to large and national. The projects included a prototype for a Mars rover and a phenomenally impractical watch based on obsolete technology.

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Students use cool tools to solve local problems in summer Makerspace course

Posted on 07/19/2018

Walk by Union South and you might hear the faint buzz of power tools. It’s the hum of creativity in the UW Makerspace next door in Wendt Commons, where students design and build whatever they can imagine …

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Forward-thinking Badgers embrace innovation

Posted on 05/15/2018
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Student energy hackathon yields smart real-life solutions

Posted on 04/17/2018
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