How do you celebrate one of your most awesome maker members? Share her story. Thanks to the online news source Southeast Makers for interviewing and writing about a true Renaissance woman, Cindy Williams. Click HERE to read more about how she likes to play with power tools and how she found her people at Decatur Makers. […]
Without a doubt, we have had an amazing year. We started with just under 100 members and ended with over 150. And that doesn’t even count our 24 maker scholars and maker mentors funded from grants! Our space went from a roughed out floor plan to a fully functional facility including an outdoor work area, […]
Help Us Make It Happen! Would you consider making a donation to support our End of Year campaign? No doubt about it, we are growing. We have over 150 members and scores more attend our hands-on weekly open Build Nights. Add to this our plans for bigger community involvement and student outreach, growing our cache of equipment […]
Join us to “Clean Up the Space” this Saturday, June 18. We’ll start at 8:00am and go until there’s no one left (sometime in the afternoon). Plus, we’re buying lunch! We plan to organize the shelves and storage inside, as well as grade and build a retaining wall on the outside (we’re definitely getting a bobcat […]
We are very excited to welcome Irm Diorio as our first paid employee! We have been operating as an all-volunteer startup non-profit for several years. Now, thanks to the generosity of our members and other foundational supporters, we are thrilled to be able to take this important step so quickly. Irm started as the part-time […]