How You Can Be a Change Agent: Learn from the Creators of Truckee’s New Makerspace
Tahoe Silicon Mountain, a network of technology professionals who live and work in the Tahoe-Truckee area, is pleased to welcome Morgan Goodwin and Stephen Hoyt to present: ”How You Can Be a Change Agent: Learn from the Creators of Truckee’s New Makerspace.” A throw-away culture, our degrading environment, a competitive global economy, a lack of vocational educational opportunities, and a need for skills and tools to create the things that can bring vibrancy and prosperity to our area - these are just some of the reasons behind the creation of the Truckee Roundhouse, Truckee’s makerspace opening this summer. Learn how the team identified a community need, brought people together to solve it, and why sometimes it just takes grit to make your idea a reality. Morgan Goodwin, chair of the Truckee Roundhouse and vice mayor of the Town of Truckee, and Stephen Hoyt, a board member of the Roundhouse and owner of Imagitech will talk about their exciting experience of organizing a group of people around a goal by telling their story of starting the Truckee Roundhouse makerspace. You can learn more about the Truckee Roundhouse here: truckeeroundhouse.org The meeting will be on Monday, May 9th, 6-8 pm at Pizza on the Hill, in Tahoe Donner at 11509 Northwoods Blvd., Truckee. A $5 fee includes pizza and salad. Before and after the presentation, there will be time for networking with other technology professionals who live and work in the Tahoe-Truckee region. The event will also be livestreamed and available online as it happens on YouTube: bit.ly/YouTubeTSM This month’s event is sponsored by New Leaders, Clear Capital, and Holland & Hart LLP. You can find us on LinkedIn and Facebook and at TahoeSiliconMountain.com or sign up for email meeting announcements here: bit.ly/14XGofL.
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How You Can Be a Change Agent: Learn from the Creators of Truckee’s New Makerspace
- 1. Tahoe Silicon Mountain Tonight's event made possible by NewLeaders.com ClearCapital.com HollandHart.com TruckeeChamber.co m
- 2. How You Can Be a Change Agent Learn from the creators of Truckee’s new makerspace
- 3. HELLO!Morgan Goodwin & Stephen Hoyt Truckee Roundhouse board members morgan@truckeeroundhouse.org | stephen@truckeeroundhouse.org
- 4. Basement to Burning Man Morgan Goodwin
- 5. ALWAYS a Designer… But once introduced to tools... a MAKER was born! Stephen Hoyt
- 6. Start with a big Vision And see who shows up 1
- 8. Snowball method ∎ Vision, strategy, plan, etc developing simultaneously ∎ Initial meetings ∎ Finding the people willing to make this happen Be comfortable with saying ‘I don’t know’ a lot
- 9. What’s in a name? Heritage & Possibility
- 10. Zooming out: Why a makerspace? A brief tour of the ‘Maker Movement’ 2
- 11. The maker movement is about moving from consumption to creation and turning knowledge into action. -- Laura Fleming
- 13. Big focus on software∎ We’ve become focused on apps and smart phones and being “plugged in” ∎ And cut vocational classes at many of our public schools ∎ Glued to our screens What are we making?
- 15. The Global Maker Movement... Pride in saying “I made that” We live in an amazing time Empower and connect
- 16. Making is fundamental to what it means to be human. We must make, create, and express ourselves to feel whole. There is something unique about making physical things. These things are like little pieces of us and seem to embody portions of our souls -- Maker Manifesto
- 17. $116,000,000Raised across 1,400 tech projects on kickstarter 3Number of years the White House has hosted it’s own Maker Faire 244,5333D printers shipped in 2015. Expected to more than double in 2016
- 18. And not just high tech
- 19. What kind of space? Non-profit vs for-profit Low tech vs. High tech Day use vs. Studios
- 25. ● Leadership Group Partnership ● 300+ responses ● Use types, class requests, willingness to pay, demographics, and shop preferences Community Survey Cutoff
- 27. Business Model ∎ Donations to cover capital costs and expansion ∎ Memberships and classes to cover operations ∎ Volunteer run, with ambition to expand Think gym membership -- come do your own workout, or take a class
- 28. Making it happen And learning to love the bumps in the road 3
- 30. Community Support Relationships with: ∎ Schools ∎ Art groups ∎ Builders ∎ Sierra Business Council ∎ Community Foundation Impossible Light movie Makerspace tour Silicon Mountain Made in Tahoe Maker Show 2015 Donors thank-you event Truckee Thursdays Lots of encouragement Lots of advice Lots of offers to help that aren’t quite right Lots of understanding
- 31. Fundraising Requires focus ● Raised $60k in 12 months ● $50k more across in-kind donations ● Over 90 donors
- 32. Airport Finding a space to call home. Commercial property leasing prohibitive for a fledgling
- 33. Layout
- 34. Permitting Jumping through the hoops. ADA compliance-bathroom, parking, ramps, etc. Emergency shower requirements Title 24 Lighting Emergency exits
- 35. Opening soon….
- 36. Robert Suarez - Board Stephen Hoyt - Board, Technology Lead Maggie Hargrave - Ceramics Lead Judi Morales Gibson - Textiles Lead Morgan Goodwin - Chair Emily Vitas - Secretary Grant Kaye - Treasurer, Wood Lead Karin Johnson - Board Chris “Chief” Gregor - Board, Metal Lead The Team Patrick Hall - Maker Show Event Lead Andrew Cross, Truckee- Tahoe Lumber - Advisor Alex Terrazas, Town of Truckee - Advisor
Editor's Notes
- MG and SH welcome
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- MG Introduced to Global Village Construction set Started thinking about collaborative spaces and workshops in Truckee -- start it in a garage? Didn’t know Grant and Chief → flames on pirate ship, working on space idea
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- MG Campaign event and makerspace exploration Get the community together and get people fired up
- MG Truckee-Tahoe Lumber!!!!
- MG History -- truckee is a railroad and lumber town. Not so much ‘get rich quick’ as ‘industry’ Tough place to live -- grit & ingenuity Roundhouse -- lots of different shops, with a public space in the middle. Workshop + gathering introduce Steve a bit more
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- SH Kids are all playing with minecraft.
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- SH & MG It’s human to want to make things, to be proud of what we make. The ash-tray steve made for his father Explosion of technology that we have access too -- like the internet, thsoe who are connected to it have access to opportunities We like to share experiences, connect over creative ideas,
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- MG Fromt Riverside Studios to Etsy to Truckee Thursdays -- people want to have a skill or a craft, lots want to make a little money on the side, and many turn it into a profession
- MG Touring other spaces -- over a dozen so far Community survey
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- MG - Artisan’s Asylum, Cambridge
- MG - Curious Forge
- SH -- The Crucible
- MG -- survey
- SH -- these are the 5 shops
- MG Non-profit. Decisions to not specialize by age, technology, skill level, left/right brain Decisions to specialize in day-use, quality tools, professional operation
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- MG -- Lesson: stay focused. Everyone has an idea, everyone has advice. Trust your gut. Presence Relationships with institutions Relationships with individuals
- MG Don’t assume it’s going to be easy -- harder than you think Raised over $60,000 to date from over 90 donors, not counting the maker show
- SH -- story of how this connection came about. Why it’s a win-win
- SH -- walk people through it
- SH And MG talk about business setup 501c(3) and board policies and procedures Bank account
- MG -- opening soon. 'We plan to open this summer, pending airport upgrades Challenge -- complex project, lots of people have expectations.
- MG -- some of who these folks are (introduce people!)
- MG -- spots open1
- SH -- closing remarks