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University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching & the Infrastructure of Change," by Brandon Walsh, @scholarslab.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, has dropped! Join us Mon, Oct. 5 at 1 pm to celebrate the launch! This is a virtual event, read more & register at the link. bit.ly/47uXauZ

A book titled "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh is resting on a woven chair. A pink bookmark is visible within the book.

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to sharing thoughts and experiments with critical making in an era of agentic tools at UVA next week!

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SLab's free public workshops next week: * lamp-repair cafe * origami flowers * sodatab chains * editing spatial/mappy data * VR model=>3D print * @ekj.bsky.social & @anasalter.bsky.social build on exercises in their OA "Critical Making & the Age of AI" w/hands-on exploration of making as scholarship

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next week's free public SLab talks: * @walshbr.bsky.social book launch zoom in conversation w/ @winnieepm.bsky.social * @anasalter.bsky.social & @ekj.bsky.social lecture on critical making in the age of AI (+workshop too!) * @jeremyboggs.net on tinkering w/CSS animations * Plus workshops +

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THREAD 🧵 ⬇️ A very generous and engaged liveskeet by @roopikarisam.bsky.social exploring @walshbr.bsky.social's 'Embedded Pedagogies' The book is #OpenAccess and can be read for free or you can buy a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ICYMI Free zine by @snblickhan.bsky.social & me teaching a fun beginner-friendly way to mend or add weaving to clothes+fabric; you can buy a Speedweve for $10 (come use @scholarslab.bsky.social's if you're local!) zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/SpeedweveForMendingDHMakesMethodzZine1-BlickhanVisconti

Zine cover for Sam Blickhan & Amanda Wyatt Visconti's "Speedweve for Mending" zine, featuring a little round Speedweve darning loom photo

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Institutional norms, such as claims to neutrality, intellectualism, & future-orientation, quietly shape what+how educators can teach. Walsh combines theory+practical insight: case studies, digital projects, & firsthand reflections to demonstrate how these forces operate+how they can be challenged'

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Embedded Pedagogies" is an open-access book & free to read online 👇📚

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking ahead to Monday 10/5, join us online 1-2pm ET for a virtual book launch of our Head of Student Programs Dr. @walshbr.bsky.social's new book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching & the Infrastructure of Change". Walsh will discuss the book w/SLab alum @winnieepm.bsky.social +

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Embedded Pedagogies Virtual Book Launch with Brandon Walsh

Join us to celebrate the launch of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change, an open-access book authored by the Scholars' Lab's Brandon...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Thursday: come to our makerspace to learn how to make origami flowers, trinkets, toys, and more! All materials are provided; no experience needed. As w/all events, free+open to the public.

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Origami Workshop

Learn how to make Origami flowers, trinkets, toys, and more! All materials are provided and no experience needed!

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Tues, join us in our makerspace for a free introductory cyanotype workhop. We provide the ink+paper already set up, all you need to do is bring in things you would like to print: flowers, trinkets, fabric, etc. Lots of materials here as well to play around w/if you aren't sure what to bring, too.

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Cyanotype Printing Workshop

This a very easy, beginner friendly introduction into Cyanotype printing!! We will provide the ink and paper already set up, all you need to do is bring in the things you would...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have a list of street addresses crying out to be mapped? Have a list of zip codes or census tracts you wish to associate with other data? Join us Tues 9/29: we’ll start with addresses and other things spatial and end with points on a map, ready for visualization and analysis:

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GIS Workshop - Mapping Street Addresses and More Spatial Things

Do you have a list of street addresses crying out to be mapped? Have a list of zip codes or census tracts you wish to associate with other data? We’ll start with addresses and...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Next week's free SLab public events: pedagogy, printing+paper arts, mapping, VR=>3D printing! 🧵+

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(Jessica is this year's Critical Making Fellow, a 2025-26 Praxis Fellowship alum, & a UVA PhD student in English; Ammon is @scholarslab.bsky.social's Makerspace Manager & Lead Research Technologist)

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Scholars' Lab colleagues Jessica Gómez & Ammon Shepherd write about Gómez's Critical Making Fellowship project: a physical data visualization of Latiné people killed in police shootings, highlighting our anticipation of data movements to emphasize that we expect a continuing pattern of murder.

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Critical Making Fellowship 2026 - Introduction

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next week's free public events: Doug Chestnut on his explorations developing a library-specific Model Context Protocol (MCP) for search+discovery; workshops on getting lat/long data onto a map; & on crafting objects in virtual reality then printing them as a 3D print. Details: scholarslab.org/events

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ICYMI - my book dropped! Embedded Pedagogies brings together conversations on DH teaching and administration, offering theory, activities, and policies to imagine better educational institutions. Openly available: buff.ly/kQau5oV Launch event on 10/5 at 1:00 ET: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

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Embedded Pedagogies Virtual Book Launch with Brandon Walsh

Join us to celebrate the launch of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change, an open-access book authored by the Scholars' Lab's Brandon...

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A new piece crossposted to the @openbookpublish.bsky.social blog to celebrate the publication of Embedded Pedagogies. "Teaching Back to the University" - walshbr.com/blog/teachin... Book is openly available: buff.ly/kQau5oV Launch event on 10/5 at 1:00 ET: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Monday, October 5th from 1-2 ET @winnieepm.bsky.social will join me for a broad discussion of the work teaching can do in the world as part of a virtual book launch. Register below to join! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Focus here is on my particular point of view as a DH administrator in a library and how our work intersects with the university's embedded pedagogies, that web of policies, norms, and decisions that structure the work of the classroom from far beyond its walls.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next week's free public events: 4 workshops! Learn how to overlay historical maps on modern aerial photography of an area; learning to plan a cosplay project; make foam cosplay arm bracers from scratch; & sketching objects in virtual reality then printing them into reality w/our 3D printers:

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A few answers to FAQ I've been getting about Embedded Pedagogies: - Will be freely and openly available online. - OBP also prints on demand, and I should have info about discounts once it's out. - No automated process for pre-ordering hard copies, but I can give you that information by DM!

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also next week: @winnieepm.bsky.social shares work in progress on a community curriculum builder tool! Part of our Speaking in Code series w/coffee, comfy chairs, informal vibe, learning how a colleague is curreyapproaching a research Q or problem via tech:

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Speaking in Code: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez

Join the Scholars' Lab Research and Development team for Speaking in Code! In this session, Winnie E. Pérez Martínez (PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian &...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also next week: 3 free, public workshops. Build your 1st online ArcGIS Pro map, create an object in VR then 3D print it, or learn to analyze text (topic modeling) aimed at humanities +socsci work: scholarslab.org/events

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Next week's free, public Scholars' Lab events 🧵: drop in any time Wed 12-3 for the Digital Humanities Open House! Refreshments, exhibits, hear about cool work from our staff & opportunities for you. scholarslab.org/events +

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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

if you’re at UVA i demand that you apply because i can’t

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Libraries, DH centers, other folks w/printer access 🖨️ who can make a stack of free-zine copies: there's a "take one!" poster you can print to go alongside them on our zine page! zinebakery.com//homemade-zi...

Zine cover for "DIY Web Archiving" poster with additional text allowing it to be posted over a stack of the zines encouraging taking some. "Things disappear* from the internet. (*sometimes, are deliberately disappeared)
Care about stuff on the web?
art zines fan fic
videos/tiktoks photo galleries social media hashtags departed loved ones' posts museum & archival materials
that we have always existed
what really happened
cultural memory
human rights
resistance
joy
*YOU* need to act to archive it.
Anyone can do it-this zine shows you how.
Free! Take a bunch! Take more & share with friends!
DIY Web Archiving Zine
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/09/2026

DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it! Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.

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DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery

Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're also teaching a 9/2 workshop on how to go from modeling objects in virtual reality through printing them (physical reality!) using our 3D printers. (We'll repeat this particular workshop throughout the term, so don't worry if you can't make this date.)

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Workshop: Virtual reality object modeling to 3D print workflow

Join us for a one-on-one session covering VR modeling essentials using Gravity Sketch, followed by a walkthrough on exporting your creations for 3D printing in local...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join Scholars' Lab this week for @patymurrieta.bsky.social's "Towards the Development of Decolonial Technologies" workshop Wed 9/2 & "Teaching machines to read the Conquest of America" talk Thurs 9/3: scholarslab.org/events

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Term's begun & so have our fall public events! See our schedule at scholarslab.org/events; we continue to add free public workshops, talks, & more on an ongoing basis too (especially additional makerspace workshops)

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Galley proofs received let's gooo. Embedded Pedagogies coming together for the fall release. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Table of contents for an upcoming book _Embedded Pedagogies_: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change. Information can be found on the publisher website: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0544

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Applicants do *not* need any existing technical expertise—we cover that during your year w/us, so don't let the application question about your tech background put you off. Join a 9/9 info session zoom (or contact us for recording) to understand the program and ask questions. Materials due 11/1.

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Applications For The 2027-2028 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UVA grad students (or folks who know them): our 2027-28 Praxis Fellowship applications are open! Yearlong, interdisciplinary digital humanities cohort: research collaboration, pedagogy, developing familiarity & comfort w/a variety of digital methods, & shaping a DH that fits your interests+values. +

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Applications For The 2027-2028 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our longtime GIS Workshop series returns this fall as usual, with the usual punny roundup too. Curious about mapping & spatial humanities? Our workshops are open to the public, free, no experience needed & laptop provided, come to any or all sessions! 🌏🌍🌎

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Dude, Where's My Cartography? GIS Workshops You Won't Forget

We don’t know where you parked your car, but we can help you make a map to retrace your steps. And that’s just the first session! After that, we’ll go beyond basic cartography, covering common GIS ope...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This fall, we've got multiple repeats of a free workshop teaching you to model things in virtual reality, then 3D print them in the makerspace: 8/26, 9/9, 9/16, and more one-tine sessions into the fall (first: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17444024)

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Workshop: Virtual reality object modeling to 3D print workflow

Join us for a one-on-one session covering VR modeling essentials using Gravity Sketch, followed by a walkthrough on exporting your creations for 3D printing in local...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Part of the summit's outcomes = a reusable public kit to run similar events; including "DH developer origin stories" shared by various DH folks circa 2013: codespeak.scholarslab.org (nonrecorded discussion of race, gender, class,+ & DH coding/culture were another limited but lasting event outcome)

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Speaking in Code

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This fall, our popular Coffee+Code series led by @jeremyboggs.net is taking on a new name, same fresh housemade coffee+informal "here's what research/teaching Q I'm working on w/tech" game: *Speaking in Code*! From our 2013 NEH summit of DH coders making tacit DH dev knowledge+culture accessible +

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Toe dipping into encoding, GitHub, hosting. Some things will live directly on the site and others will live elsewhere and be linked. W/ many thanks to @jeremyboggs.net and @mackymoo.bsky.social for advice as I workshopped different options.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Roughing out the plan for the Intro to DH course. Plan is to have students build a portfolio in CB-Essay. I've set up a template that they'll fork on day one with space for each of the assignments. Each week as we do new things that overwrite the placeholders. github.com/CollectionBu...

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GitHub - CollectionBuilder/cb-essay: CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected ...

CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected essays, books, etc.) in front, wit...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And looking ahead to October, @ekj.bsky.social & @anasalter.bsky.social will be giving a talk & a workshop 10/8+10/9. You can read ahead in their open-access "Critical Making in the Age of AI". (More events & full fall schedule still to come at scholarslab.org/events!)

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Critical Making in the Age of AI

Critical Making in the Age of AI invites students, teachers, learners, and digital humanists to explore making as scholarship. Inspired by the craft traditions of textile arts, this book combines a su...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We've also added a DH Center Open House—drop in to Scholars' Lab's Common Room & Makerspace any time 12-3 Sept 9th for refreshments & to learn about cool digital interdisciplinary humanities (research, teaching, opportunities!) happening in SLab & our partners in IATH, the DH Certificate, & more:

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Digital Humanities Center Open House

The UVA Library's DH Center Open House is one of a variety of informal events hosted in the DH Center throughout the year. It is a great way for beginning and experienced...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

More fall public DH events w/Scholars' Lab coming online! 🗓️✍️ the 1st week of September has 3: @patymurrieta.bsky.social "Towards the Development of Decolonial Tech" workshop + "Teaching machines to read the Conquest of America" talk; #ByteSizedPedagogy 9/4 re:Langmead+Vee on undergrad DH pedagogy:

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Last #ByteSizedPedagogy of the summer is this Friday 8/7, but we're picking right back up for the fall semester in September! Sept through Dec, first Fridays at noon ET, all free and open to public. Sign up and bring a snack. Links and readings here - walshbr.com/byte-sized-p...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This Friday 8/7, don't miss our last summer event: the online+free #ByteSizedPedagogy, on @seagillicuddy.bsky.social's "DH Ghost Towns: What Happens When Makers Abandon Their Creations?" (read in Debates in DH: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...)

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#ByteSizedPedagogy - August 2026

It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! Join us the first week of each month (typically Wed or Fri) for a free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by the...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

More exciting speaker names 🎲🎮📚 & workshops will be published to fall's lineup over the next month. And watch for a huge influx of our popular makerspace workshops in early September once our student makerspace technologists & collaborators are back!

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