It’s that time of year. Students are counting the days before school ends and summer begins. That means camp season is almost here on the Roane State Community College campus. Continue reading
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Grant Funds Awarded to the CBI
We’re excited! The CBI has been awarded grant funds by the Launch Tennessee Creative Communities Grants program. The Creative Communities Grant initiative was created to connect rural and underserved populations with entrepreneurial education, tools and resources. The funds will be used for a number of programs by the end of the grant period, June 30th, 2017. Continue reading
Campers Everywhere!
The Cumberland Business Incubator was full of young life last week. We hosted two different youth camps – Make Camp, our 3rd annual week long camp, and Maker Girl, a special 3D printing camp for 1st grade to 6th grade girls. Continue reading
Maker Space Volunteer Highlight: Paul Falk
Paul Falk worked for nearly 40 years with GE. He worked with the fabrication, design and packaging of high reliability electronics primarily for bio-medical and spacecraft applications. Most notable projects that Paul worked on include participation on spacecraft teams that were first to land on an asteroid, the first to orbit Mercury and a flyby of Pluto. If you saw the photos sent back to earth from Pluto, Paul played a part in developing the equipment! Continue reading
MAKE Camp 2015 – What an Amazing Week!
The week started with each of the 14 Roane State Community College’s Cumberland Business Incubator Make Camp 2015 campers aged 8 through 18 customizing their personal safety glasses so they could easily be identified if left behind. The amazing result? Not one camper lost their safety glasses during the 5 days of camp! 
More safety rules for use of the Maker Space followed as well as an overview of the options for Monday making; video documentary, tile art work, rockets or woodworking followed by all campers attending a Karate session taught by a third degree black belt. By the end of the first day campers were talking about production runs of some of their projects to sell. Entrepreneurs in the making! Continue reading
CBI 2014 Annual Report
- Who have you told about the CBI?
- Who have you sent to the CBI?
The Cumberland Business Incubator (CBI) serves all types and sizes of businesses including for profit and non-profit; small, medium and large; start-up, mature and those transitioning to new ownership. Continue reading
MAKE Camp 2014 a Huge Success
18 campers, 11 volunteers and 3 Make camp staff spent 5 days at the CBI learning how to make things from soldering led lights and battery holders on a flashing robot pin to making a mini-hovercraft to woodworking projects, making paracord bracelets to learning how to write computer code and dozens of art and craft projects including learning how to sew. Continue reading
The Eiffel Tower & Your Ideas
In celebration of Bastille Day, Seth Godin’s blog included the following about the Eiffel Tower:
- It was designed at home on the kitchen table
- By someone who didn’t get their name on it
- It had never been done before, not guaranteed to get built or to work
- It was criticized by hundreds of leading intellectuals and cultural experts
- It wasn’t supposed to last very long
- It’s designed to be an icon, it’s not an accident
- People flock to it because it’s famous
- You can sketch a recognizable version of it on a napkin
I did a bit more research. In May of 1884, working at his kitchen table at home, Maurice Koechlin made an outline drawing of the scheme he and Emile Nouguier, both engineers with the Eiffel firm, had conceived of as the centerpiece for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, coinciding with the centennial of the French Revolution. Initially the owner of the company, Mr Eiffel himself, was not enthusiastic about the concept. Continue reading