University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

CCC - Maker-In-Residence
Our Makers-in-Residence have workshops underway. If you're interested in seeing the workshop offerings or attending, click on Learn More button below.
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Summer Camps
Our youth summer camps start June 3rd
Registration is open with seats still available.
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Fab Lab Open Hours
Stop in and make things!
Sundays: 1-6PM
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WELCOME

The Champaign-Urbana (CU) Community Fab Lab is a makerspace located on the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign campus. For those who may not have heard of makerspaces before, a makerspace is a place where people with shared interests can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. In our makerspace, you’ll find tools and software you can learn and utilize to make projects all your own. During open hours, we are open to visitors from all around the community and campus.

MISSION:

Access for all: Inspire creativity, discovery, and dynamic learning

The Champaign-Urbana (CU) Community Fab Lab supports campus and community members through research, university courses, community engagement and programming, professional development, youth summer camps, and design and fabrication support for all students, staff, faculty, and community members. We seek to play a boundary spanning role across those areas and intersect with on- and off-campus communities. We are committed to creating an open, community-oriented, and capacity-building makerspace, fostering a dynamic experiential learning environment, and sparking interdisciplinary groundbreaking discoveries.

WHAT WE DO:

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CREATIVITY · SELF-DETERMINATION · INCLUSIVITY· BOUNDARY SPANNING

Starting May 12th

Summer Open Hours

With the end of the semester fast approaching, we’ll be switching over to our summer open hours starting May 12th.

SPRING OPEN HOURS (until 5/12):
Sundays: 1-6PM
Mon-Thurs: 5-9PM

SUMMER OPEN HOURS (after 5/12):
Sundays only: 1-6PM