The speakers for this class were from FutureWorks Makerspace. I have been to a maker con before, a convention in California that consisted of different Makerspace styled companies and startups, all doing similar work in a very different fashion. Though when I was there, you needed to be very specialized if you wanted to be a part of that team, and therefore not many others could join. Futureworks is different than other maker spaces because anyone has the ability to apply for a membership with Futureworks. During this crisis, lots of the members and volunteers of this Makerspace have been building masks to help with the outbreak, which I find incredible because masks are not easy to make correctly, nor are they as cheap as they could be.

Not many companies that I know of have the mindset of looking at an applicant and seeing what they can do for the future, not what they’ve done in the past. The reason lots of jobs are tough to get is that the company will look at your past accomplishments in other work, rather than seeing what you can do for the company for the future.