This UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons workshop series being offered in the Fall of 2025 starting on Friday, September 12th is an introduction to digital design and maker skills so that you can create devices to solve problems in the world around you – Bring your ideas to life by exploring ideas, questions, problems, and potential solutions to solve a personal problem, or start an entrepreneurial venture.
In this hands-on 6-part workshop series, participants will use the Design Thinking process to identify problems, create possible solutions, develop a maker mindset, and learn technical skills that are useful in safely creating physical prototypes. Learners will receive training to achieve competency at an introductory level for skills including:
- 3D Design & 3D Printing
- Laser Cutting & 3D Design
- Electronics (Arduino & Internet of Things) & Soldering,
- WordPress Website Creation
- Design Thinking methodology
No prerequisites or experience are required. There is a cap of 20 participants for this workshop series. Please review the schedule below, and if this topic excites you, please sign up!
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Learning Objectives
Some of the skills we’ll be working on in the workshop series include:
- 2D design and laser cutting wood
- 3D design and 3D printing
- Electronics and Internet of Things device creation
- Design Thinking
- WordPress website creation
We encourage everyone to attend all workshops in the series in person, but realize that not everyone’s schedules will allow this, so the activities for each topic will be made available for people to work through on their own as their schedule allows (except for the Arduino & Internet of Things workshops that require participants to use electronics kits in the library).
