Transforming garbage into fashion
Carolina senior Ana Soule and her team at the Phoenyx Project are using Carolina's makerspacers to give new life to vinyl billboards that would otherwise end up in the dump.
Campus creators
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Be a Maker program is a network of makerspaces where Carolina’s maker community design and make physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation. Students can participate in open studios, training sessions, workshops, hosted classes and group activities in spaces equipped with emerging technologies like 3D printing as well as wood and metalworking shops.
I have never seen a campus enterprise take off as fast. We will fulfill our vision that every Tar Heel will take a risk, make a difference and be a maker
Rich Superfine, faculty chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Be a Maker network
by the numbers
The University's four makerspaces — located in Murray Hall, Carmichael Hall, the Hanes Art Center and the Kenan Science Library — are designed for the Carolina community to connect with one another to design and create physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.
- 4campus makerspaces
- 4,000makerspace users
- 50,000+hours spent at makerspaces
Making and innovating
‘A freedom to explore’
By working in makerspaces, Abigail Gancz spent four years exploring and redefining her career path.
Of minds and makers
The Carolina Challenge Makeathon convened innovators and makers to turn socially innovative ideas into something tangible.
A culture of innovation
From the classroom to the lab, Carolina innovators are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Through their ingenuity, they are creating jobs, finding cures, combating diseases, fighting poverty, eliminating hunger, providing clean water and promoting social justice.