Makerspaces

  • Vanderbilt University

    A Place Where Every Person Can Grow

    Nov. 5, 2025

  • Vanderbilt Senior Design Team Innovates Portable ECMO Device for Improved Respiratory Support

    Vanderbilt Senior Design Team Innovates Portable ECMO Device for Improved Respiratory Support

    A team of fourth-year Vanderbilt biomedical engineering students, Gabriella Glomp, Briana Bernicker, and Ysabel Gomez, is working on a senior design project aimed at improving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) technology. Their project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), focuses on making… Read More

    May. 5, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Eye on Innovation: How Four Vanderbilt Seniors Engineered a Fully-Rotating Animatronic Eyeball

    What if an animatronic eye could rotate 360° in any direction? That’s the challenge four Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering fourth-year students, Ari Horwitz, Jackson Singer, Henry Dirksen, and Kaylee Greenberg, took on for their senior design project. Partnering with Nashville-based animatronics company Animax Designs, the team was tasked with a… Read More

    May. 5, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    From Idea to Reality: Unlocking the Wond’ry Makerspace

    Professor Kevin Galloway, Director of Making at the Wond’ry When I was finishing my first year in undergrad, I was undecided in the College of Arts and Science with an idea for an invention and no one to turn to for guidance (note: a makerspace wasn’t even a thing yet). … Read More

    Apr. 4, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Go Green, or Go Extinct: How the Wond’ry Dinos Are Inspiring Global Change

    Thanks to the Wond’ry’s Fiber Arts Build Lab workshops over the years, the Wond’ry dinos have become an iconic and loved creation for participants to make. These Wond’ry dinos have taken on new life through a global collaboration spearheaded by Alexandra Sargent Capps, Director of the Fiber Arts Build… Read More

    Apr. 4, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Rooted in Collaboration: How Vanderbilt Students Brought a Whimsical Tree to Life at Susan Gray School

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    Mar. 7, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Toy Adaptation Event Expands to Bring More Play to More Kids

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    Mar. 7, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Rising 10th Graders Dive into Dune-Inspired Fashion at SSMV

    .image-layout–one .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–one-inset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one-inset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–one-inset-small .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one-inset-small .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-stacked .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-offset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-symmetric .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-asymmetric .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3){ display: none; } Exploring the Intersection of Science, Math, and Design at Vanderbilt’s FAB Lab Twenty-five rising 10th graders at The School for Science and Math at… Read More

    Jul. 10, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Grapneler Project: Transforming Combat Engineering with Innovation and Dedication

    Jacob Schorr testing the prototype at Fort Campbell This past fall , Vanderbilt students tackled a project to assist combat engineers with safely defusing landmines and other dangerous obstacles, a position for a Soldier that has a survivability rate of less than 10% when in a conflict scenario. The team,… Read More

    Jun. 7, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Aiding Physical Therapy: Vanderbilt Students Design Tool for Patients with Drop Foot

    .image-layout–one .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–one-inset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one-inset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–one-inset-small .image-layout__figure:nth-child(2), .image-layout–one-inset-small .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-stacked .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-offset .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-symmetric .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3), .image-layout–two-asymmetric .image-layout__figure:nth-child(3){ display: none; } Three Vanderbilt students are making strides in the realm of physical therapy by designing a therapeutic tool aimed at assisting physical therapists in their work with individuals… Read More

    May. 6, 2024