[Imc-makerspace] UCIMC "Barn raising" - volunteers needed!!

[Chris Ritzo]

*UCIMC Barn raising - Volunteers Needed!*

Contact our building coordinator Leon McGee
<leonmcgeeamericorps at gmail.com> or project liaison, Chris Ritzo
<critzo at ucimc.org> to RSVP today!

*When:
*

    *Weekend #1 - Feb. 5-6 **
    Weekend #2 - Feb. 19-20**
    *

*Time: 8am-5pm / To be determined*
*
What:*

Please RSVP and join other UCIMC members, UI students and our faculty
partners from the School of Architecture, for two Barnraising weekend
construction projects in February. We'll be building a new staffing area
in the front lobby. Complete background and details below.

No prior expertise or experience is required to volunteer, but if you do
have construction, carpentry, or other experience, we welcome you!

This will be an ongoing partnership with the UI architecture faculty, so
we're also looking for materials donations and tools. If you have
leftover construction materials please contact us! You can make a
tax-deductible donation based on the estimated value of the materials.
Here are some of the things we're looking for:

    * 2x4s and other construction quality lumber of various sizes
    * nails, screws, fasteners of various kinds, hinges, casters, etc.
    * Plywood, OSB, pegboard, masonite, etc.

*History & Background Information
*

In March 2010 the IMC was contacted by Stewart Hicks, one of 4 junior
faculty members from the University of Illinois School of Architecture,
expressing interest in working with the IMC as a community partner. They
had visited the space for the IMC Filmfest, and sought us out as a
potential community partner organization. Beth Simpson, Meme Polk, and
myself, met with them to coordinate the partnership, and wrote a letter
of support for their grant application to the UI Office of Public
Engagement.

Their research is to design and complete building practical projects,
and then to write about it and publish about it for their tenure review.
The UCIMC benefits by having expert partners working with us to design
structures that will help us better use our first floor space.

This fall they were awarded a grant for $15K to partner with the UCIMC
on this project.


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