About the Project

The objective of this project is to expose a broad community of K-12 students, undergraduates, and the general public to the “World of the Small” and the rules that govern the physical world at the nanoscale. The tools, know-how, and environment to explore at the nanoscale has been generally out of reach of typical Makerspaces. Institutions with such capabilities are limited to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and research scientists.  These groups are typically very much results-oriented, which does not encourage an environment of self-discovery of interests or skills in this field. The Making movement is just the opposite—it is a process-oriented approach allowing Makers to self-discover talents, skills and interests into typically STEM related disciplines. We intend to provide the tools, environment, and the knowledge to “Makers” to explore the “World of the Small” by applying the principles of Making, Sharing, Giving, Learning, Tooling, Playing, Participating, Supporting, and Changing.

Image of commercial atomic force microscope
Image of LEGO model of AFM

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