{"id":8475,"date":"2022-05-21T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:25:55","slug":"physics-professor-duke-energy-mobile-makerspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/physics-professor-duke-energy-mobile-makerspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics professor uses Duke Energy Foundation grant to create mobile MakerSpace"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8479″ image_size=”full” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][vc_column_text]Students use various machines and tools in the MakerSpace on campus, located in a building adjacent to the pool.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Somewhere on Eckerd College\u2019s campus stands a model T. rex with the face of Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]It\u2019s just one of the joyous things Prakrut \u201cPK\u201d Patel created on the 3D printer after joining the College\u2019s MakerSpace club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This summer, PK, a senior computer science<\/a> and physics<\/a> student from Mumbai, India, will spread that joy through a collaboration with Physics Professor Anne Cox, Ph.D., to turn a $53,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation<\/a> into a mobile MakerSpace outfitted to serve elementary and middle school children across the county.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”8536″ image_size=”full” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]PK Patel ’22 uses the laser cutter inside the MakerSpace to create specific designs. Photo: Michel Foug\u00e8res<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\u201cIn order to build powerful communities and ensure continued economic growth, it is important for us to invest in efforts that create and further STEM education in the communities we serve,\u201d says Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy\u2019s state president in Florida. \u201cDuke Energy is proud to support the mobile MarkerSpace, an innovative program that will meet children right where they are to provide hands-on learning opportunities, resources and experiences that will ignite a lifelong passion for STEM and help students thrive later on in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

To implement the program, Professor Cox recruited her student PK to create a simplified computer program for youth to translate their design ideas for an LED light into instructions for a laser cutter mounted in the back of a trailer. \u201cThey will be able to modify the shapes based on the parameters and type of design,\u201d PK points out. \u201cIt\u2019s really important for younger children to experience making things. They have to see their own talent firsthand to know they can work in STEM fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox concurs. When she was applying for the Duke Energy Foundation grant to create the mobile MakerSpace, it was with the hope of changing young minds before they ruled themselves unfit for academic careers in the sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal of this is for them to say, \u2018This is a possibility for me,\u2019\u201d Cox explains. \u201cMiddle school is where kids start to internalize that they are either a math person [or] not a math person. That fixed mentality of a \u2018math person\u2019 eliminates a lot of opportunities because it\u2019s something they can\u2019t see themselves as. We don\u2019t want that at any age. I want students to be open to possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

With PK\u2019s software in hand, Cox will begin testing the program on the laser cutter with local middle schoolers at Eckerd College\u2019s Summer Science Splash Camp to refine the processes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” 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The trailer will contain a laser cutter and other common MakerSpace tools as well as art supplies. Physics Shop Supervisor Paul Fratiello will help outfit the mobile MakerSpace with a pop-out awning and storage for tables and chairs to help young makers create in comfort.<\/p>\n

According to Duke Energy, creating powerful communities means powering the lives of its customers, and the vitality of the communities it serves, with more than $3.1 million in charitable grants each year through community-impact initiatives focused on K\u201312 education, nature, the workforce, and economic development.<\/p>\n

To take full advantage of Duke Energy\u2019s support, Cox hopes to additionally staff the project with interns during the school year. PK won\u2019t be able to go out and assist, but he\u2019s looking forward to helping through code. \u201cThis is an excellent chance for me to get more professional experience,\u201d he says, \u201cwhile doing something I believe in.\u201d [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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