The ISC4 Makerspace Center is now open.
Please visit the new location on the ground floor of ISC4 for more information.
About the Makerspaces
The Makerspaces at William & Mary are the premier destination for hands-on, experiential learning. Located in the new, world-class ISC4 Makerspace complex, they serve the entire William & Mary community.
In this new location we support a wide range of advanced manufacturing capabilities, including laser cutting, additive manufacturing, metalworking, and woodworking. The ISC4 Makerspace complex also features a dedicated hot-work room (for welding and plasma cutting), electronics workstations, and a walk-in finishing and spray booth.
The Makerspaces support projects across a broad spectrum for students, faculty & staff — from sewing and crafting to advanced robotics, UAVs and USVs, and AI-enabled autonomous systems. Whether carving wood by hand or 3D printing Inconel rocket nozzles, students and creators have the tools and space to render their ideas in the physical world.
Our Mission
The primary mission of the Makerspaces at William & Mary is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration alongside tools and resources of the modern age in an effort to amplify the community’s productive, innovative and entrepreneurial efforts & spirit.
Values
The Makerspaces value a community within which people having diverse interests come together to collaborate and work towards productive goals. The Makerspaces can be viewed as community prototyping, fabrication and engineering centers incorporating elements of machine shops, research labs, workshops and art studios where makers can come together to share resources and knowledge to build & prototype their ideas. The Makerspaces are where people with vastly different experiences collide on common interests, resulting in an output of innovative thinking, doing, and making.