Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

CUCFL Fab Friends Committee Charter

Purpose:

• Bring new people into the CUCFL, promoting ingenuity, invention, and inspiration, by building and sustaininga supportive, engaging community

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CUCFLTechnology Committee Charter

Purpose:

• Ensure appropriate information and fabrication technology resources and promote ingenuity, invention, and inspiration in the community

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CUCFL Curriculum Committee Charter

Purpose:

• Ensure appropriate curriculum and programming is available to serve diverse ages and interests, promoting ingenuity, invention, inspiration, and safety.

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CUCFL Steering Committee Charter

Purpose:

• Lead programming and regular operations for the CUCFL, promoting ingenuity, invention, and inspiration in the community
• Coordinate contributions and efforts of CUCFL Committees and other key stakeholders in the community and beyond

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CUCFL Community Leadership Council Charter

Purpose:

• Provide overall strategic direction to the CUCFL, promoting ingenuity, invention, and inspiration in the community
• Align the CUCFL with key stakeholders in the community and beyond
• Identify and address system barriers and enablers for effective CUCFL operations
• Lead in generating funding to support CUCFL operations

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CUCFL Mission

Global Fab Lab Charter

We are expanding the hours of the Fab Lab on Mondays and Thursdays, on a trial basis.  The Fab Lab open session hours are now as follows:

• Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 pm
• Monday evening from 4 to 9 pm
• Thursday evening from 4 to 9 pm

NOTICE

A DISCUSSION ON FAB ACADEMY HOSTING & PARTICIPATION FOR SPRING 2011 AT CHAMPAIGN-URBANA COMMUNITY FAB LAB WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 @ 5:30 PM

THE PROGRAM:
http://academy.cba.mit.edu/about/index.html

A Fab Academy prep video (Fab Lab videoconference at mcu.cba.mit.edu) is set for 9:00 am Boston time over the polycom next week on Tue Dec 7 - attend if you can!

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The Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 25th. The Fab Lab will be open on Monday November 22nd, and Sunday November 28th.

LOCAL FAB LAB BRINGS NEW CAPABILITIES TO COMMUNITY

The Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab brings digital design and fabrication equipment to the campus community. Located on the campus of the University of Illinois, the Fab Lab is partnering with local schools, the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, Parkland College and many others so that people of all ages can learn to use rapid prototyping equipment.

The formal opening ceremonies will be held on Thursday, Nov. 11 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the lab, located at Art Annex 2, 1301 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, Ill.

The event will feature hands-on activities, a welcome by members of the Lab's Community Leadership Council, and remarks by Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and Founder of the Global Fab Lab movement.

Also, Neil Gershenfeld will deliver the DesignMatters lecture "Programming Bits and Atoms: How To Make (almost) Anything" from 6:15 to 8:00 in the Lawrence Plym Auditorium, Room 134, Temple Hoyne Buel Hall (Art and Architecture Building).

Both events are free and open to the public.