2022 is coming to a close!
Welcome to our final newsletter of 2022. We have a number of items in the works and have already started planning well into 2023. Read on to find out what’s happening at your Akron MakerSpace! Including:
- Join the AMS Board of Directors!
- We want YOU to bring your awesome self and skills to the table.
- Upcoming Events
- Make Your MakerSpace – Dec. 9
- Spacegiving – Dec. 11
- Recent Events
- Make Your MakerSpace
- Board Updates
- Elevators and accessibility issues
- Be Featured on Social Media
- Stan Hywet’s Deck the Hall
Akron MakerSpace Board of Directors
9
Dec
Make Your MakerSpace
Join us at the Space for our monthly event to work on projects around the space like installing new equipment, completing maintenance, or other projects.
Show Us Your Projects!
What have you made lately? We’d love to see pictures of your projects –in progress and finished!
Want to have your work featured on AMS’ social media channels? Submit your information through this form and let us know.
We Want You (on the Board of Directors)
As a non-profit organization without employees, we depend on the volunteers that run our organization. Right now, our Board of Directors has a number of open positions.
Volunteer for a position on the Akron MakerSpace Board of Directors. We have a number of open positions and are always looking for members to step up and help with the future of AMS.
Current Openings
- Cruise Director
- Membership Coordinator
Canal Place and Elevator Issues
As you all know, we have been facing recurring issues with the Building 9 and Building 4 elevators. The Board is actively working to identify solutions and processes to address this interruption in access.
Because of the increasing frequency of these issues, we are putting processes in place to protect our members, the Akron MakerSpace, and to improve accessibility.
- Elevator Incident Report
- Use this form to submit a report when you encounter an issue
- This will allow us to provide notice to the property manager promptly AND build a record of the incidents
- Sign-up to get involved
- Want to stay informed about elevator issues, accessibility updates, and ways you can get involved? Submit this form.
- Broken elevator procedures
- Take pictures and/or videos to document the issues, date, and time
- Submit an incident report via the form linked above
- In the event of being stuck in an elevator or on an upper floor:
- First, call Security.
- If Security is unable to assist you, call the Akron Fire Department/EMS.
For the fourth year in a row, AMS has been invited to decorate a room at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens for its award-winning holiday event: Deck the Hall.
This year we were placed in the Round Room to create a floating tree design, and the structure is made of scrap logs from Stan Hywet’s Birch Tree Allée. Special thanks to Bob from our woodshop for constructing the piece, and to Beck, Liz, Chloe, Doug, and Casey for making decorations and helping to put it all together.
Make Your MakerSpace Success
Make Your MakerSpace is a monthly event where members of our community work on projects to benefit the space. Sometimes that’s installing new equipment, completing maintenance or other projects.
Thank you to everyone that showed up for Make Your MakerSpace! One of the biggest projects worked on at this month’s MYMS was the dust collection system for the wood lab.
Our next MYMS will be on December 9.
