Rural Spotlight: Lue Maxwell
As a northern and rural entrepreneur, Lue Maxwell’s experience and basket of tricks include facilitating workshops and training in professional development, entrepreneurship, and well-being in mind, body, and spirit. Adding to that are customized career and life coaching, personal transformational energy coaching, and hypnotherapy. She also carves out time to create and produce a line…
Make it Late! YuKonstruct open all night for Nuit Blanche
Join us for Breakdancing, graffiti and films at YuKonstruct on July 5 from 7 PM to 7 AM on July 6 at 135 Industrial Road. Whitehorse Nuit Blanche is an exciting all night contemporary art show that will include art installations, performances and feasts across the city of Whitehorse on July 5 from 7pm – 7am. In a…
Donate your spare tools to YuKonstruct!
We have got the space – now we need the tools! We’ve done our research, created funding applications and submitted them to allow us to purchase the big items for the makerspace. If successful, these items will include a laser cutter, a CNC machine, a 3D printer, an induction forge, an industrial sewing machine among others.…
Meet the Makers: John
Meet the Makers is a series of interviews to help you get to know the awesome folks who are building our makerspace. John is a dynamic member of the YuKonstruct Core Team who is keeping us on track towards our goal of opening a fully operational makerspace by the fall. Read on to find out…
Small Town Makerspaces
Amelia here. I am on the core YuKonstruct team, and designed the survey that so many of our makers kindly filled out. The survey was a great place to help us identify what our community wants to see in our makerspace, and relay this to our potential funding partners. It captured other information which we…
Community is the heart of a makerspace
My name is John and I am one of the folks behind YuKonstruct. Truthfully, I am not a tech whizz or particularly handy. So why did I get involved? For me, YuKonstruct has the potential to become an amazing community. And when people come together and are motivated by a common goal, great things happen.…
Tuesdays at YuKonstruct!
Time to celebrate! On Tuesday May 13, 2014 we opened the doors to show everyone our new space for the first time. Over 80 people attended to check it out and celebrate this accomplishment with us. There was Yukon Brewing beer, delicious food from Garlic A GoGo, and great music thanks to The Midnight Sons and…
Hacking Health North Event Summary
To all those who joined us at the Hacking Health North weekend – Thank You! Hacking Health North was such a phenomenal success. We appreciate all the participants, observers, sponsors, partners, organizers, and volunteers who gave their time or services during the weekend – it would not have been possible without your help. In total, 8 projects were built during the…
A busy week! Hacking Health (May 9-11) and YuKonstruct Sneak Peak (May 13)
Hacking Health North is THIS WEEKEND (May 9 – 11, 2014) – Join us! We are in the last phase of preparing for this weekends hackathon – Hacking Health North! It is going to be a fantastic event and we hope you can come as a participant for the weekend or stop by as an observer…
Bring your ideas to life!
Hacking Health and YuKonstruct If you didn’t know already, YuKonstruct is hosting Hacking Health from May 9-11, 2014 (more details here). YuKonstruct chose to host this event because it aligns well with a part of our mission to help empower Yukoners to bring their ideas to life! While we work to get our makerspace underway, this hackathon style event is essentially…
Hacking Health North – May 9 – 11, 2014
Mark May 9 – 11, 2014 in your calendars! YuKonstruct is teaming up with Hacking Health to host a weekend hackathon. Here’s a little video about the concept: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6A3lAlQmZg] If you think there are inefficiencies in the healthcare space and want to be part of the solution then REGISTER HERE (Tickets cover the cost of food for the…
Survey Results – What a response!
Thanks for taking the survey! All one hundred and one of you! Now the Core Team has lots of useful information on membership pricing, hours, and people to contact for specific volunteer tasks. People who indicated they want to volunteer Event Coordination will be contacted soon, as Hacking Health North (May 9-11, 2014) is our next big event. Stay…
We need YOUR input – take our 5 minute survey
Hey everyone! I’m Amelia and I have been excited to work with the core team to develop this important survey. Before I talk about that, I wanted to give you a little update. YuKonstruct has come so far since January 14 when we had the Kick-Off Open House and asked the Yukon community if they…
We’re making progress
Hi, my name is Allison. If your story is anything like mine, you went to the YuKonstruct Kick-Off in January, enjoyed some pizza, checked out the cool projects, and maybe you even attended the follow-up planning session on January 28th. But by now you’ve started to wonder what’s going on and what can you do to help, right? Is this…
Balloon Launch Event
We did it ! We went to SPACE! On January 30, 2014 @ 10:20am PST we launched a balloon with cameras & GPS into the sky above Whitehorse, Yukon. Once launched, it floated +100,000 ft up into the stratosphere, popped, and returned to Earth safely via parachute. That was the easy part. Getting it back…
What a Kick Off Event!
THANK YOU for making the Kick-Off to YuKonstruct such a big success! Your ideas, input, and feedback are invaluable and will help shape Yukon’s very first makerspace. We’ve compiled a summary of the evening below. 220+ makers showed up (Thats you!) 42 Pizza’s eaten (436 slices!) 30+ projects displayed (Thank you inventors!) Here’s how you…
