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THURSDAY Sept. 19, 2021 Volume 126 Issue 6
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CELEBRATING UNITY
The Student Government Association and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion put on Diversity Week this week. One of the main attractions was the Unity Project, where students can come and add a string to the circle to symbolize their story. Top: East High School student Carla Garza poses below the unity project outside the Rhatigan Student Center. She was the guest dancer at the Latine Heritage Month celebration event on Sept. 15. (Khanh Nguyen / The Sunflower) Left: Student Body President Rija Khanh laughs as she adds her string to the unity project on Sept. 13. (Jordan Plowman / The Sunflower)
GoCreate offers free memberships to students BY JULIA NIGHTENGALE copyeditor@thesunflower.com / @JuliaNightengale
GoCreate, a 20,000 square foot maker space on the Innovation Campus, is offering free membership to all WSU and WSU tech students for a limited time only. “Students have this opportunity, that won’t last forever, but Wichita State has done this as a beta test to see who is interested and our membership base has just blown up in the last few weeks when this was announced,” McCollum said. Kimberly McCollum, the assistant director of GoCreate, said that even if someone believes they do not have the skill, they have the resources to help you learn. “It is very important to that foundation that they encompass the whole idea that not only can anyone be a maker, but then entrepreneurs and prototyping and such come with a vast variety and rich history of entrepreneurship
here in Wichita from years past,” McCollum said. “It comes from that whole history of where we were in the midwest and we couldn’t get things as fast as everybody else. So, we were utilizing whatever we had around.” McCollum said it is not uncommon for someone working in a studio to have an ancestor who had some kind of entrepreneurial spirit or were makers themselves. “I think that’s one thing that makes us so amazing here in Wichita, is that not only can anyone be a maker in our space and we have this amazing facility to do so, but then also we have this spirit about us that if we want to prototype something in this place we can definitely help you do that,” McCollum said. In the collaborative space at GoCreate, McCollum said that she has seen Kickstarter groups form, and seen students who were working in different studios
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Nursing sophomore Lindsay Dexter works with an embroidery machine in GoCreate on Sept. 15.
collaborate to make each of their projects better. GoCreate has multiple different studios, including textiles, 3D, design, metal, and wood. For a full
list of available tools and studios at GoCreate, go to gocreate.com. “If you can dream it, we can help you make it or make your dreams come true… Really, truly
the sky’s the limit,” McCollum said. No previous skills are needed to visit GoCreate. Along with student SEE CREATE PAGE 2