{"id":290,"date":"2018-09-14T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:59:40","slug":"support-the-makerspaces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/support-the-makerspaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the MakerSpaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Your support to the MakerSpace Fund helps continue our ability to purchase new machines, upgrade equipment and purchase additional supplies for the students using the Spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter is-style-default\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/go.ncsu.edu\/makerspaceece\"><i class=\"fas fa-hand-holding-heart\"><\/i> Give Now<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:81px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also support the MakerSpaces with gifts of equipment or supplies\u2014please contact us via <a href=\"mailto:ecehelp@ncsu.edu\">ecehelp@ncsu.edu<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen I was a student in the early-70s, I was very frustrated, because I wanted to build things, but I didn&#8217;t have the tools, I didn&#8217;t have the space, I didn&#8217;t have the parts&#8230;When I heard that the department wanted to make MakerSpaces, that&#8217;s what led me to make this donation because I don&#8217;t want our students to be as frustrated as I was. &#8220;<\/p><cite><strong>Dr. Robert M. Kolbas<\/strong>, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your support to the MakerSpace Fund helps continue our ability to purchase new machines, upgrade equipment and purchase additional supplies for the students using the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}