How you can help

• Volunteering
• Who can volunteer
• How volunteering works
• Current list of volunteer projects
• Possible projects for Eagle Scouts and Gold Awards
• Volunteer positions and shifts
• Donations
• Items we accept
• Donating money
• Donations
• How to edit the wiki

Volunteering

Who can volunteer

How volunteering works

Current list of volunteer projects

These are projects where volunteers take the lead, and Staff assist and guide if needed

• Maintain pisignage window display board
• Preventative maintenance: 3D printers
• Organize tools
  • Create a directory for where tools are located, using the shelf labeling system, and place on door to storage room
  • Update tool entries in MyTurn with location code
  • For tools with missing code stickers: use enamel paint or engraver to mark tools
• Use electrolysis tank to derust tools
• Seed Library
  • Update seed library page with current inventory
  • Organize and Develop the seed library -- Conor taking point
  • Establish system for donating seeds and recording donations (small book/journal available to use).
• Vacuum Cleaners Preventative Maintenance
• prepare tool and material lists for aug 8 fixit day
• check PLA inventory and prepare next order -- link to Standard Operating Proceedure (SOP) (needs to be developed)
• Implement a PLA waste recycling program -- Montgomery College Makerspace can accept PLA and make reclaimed filament! 
• Pi-Signage
  • Troubleshoot overscan issue in Front Window Display Screen
  • Set-up a separate display for our (landscape format) screen currently going unused in the space. 

Possible projects for Eagle Scouts and Gold Awards

Volunteer positions and shifts

• Front Desk
• Class Support
• Assist Members
• Tool librarian
• Project Vol
• MOD (Member On Duty) 

Donations

Items we accept

Items we accept

We tend to accept the following items:

• Items on our tool wishlist
• Tools that can be 
• Books and videos about tools, how-to, and DIY
• Rolls of PLA (1.75 mm) that can be used in our printers
• Seeds (clean and viable)

Sometimes accept: 

• Camping equipment
• baking equipment
• arts and crafts supplies
• cloth and yarn (must be good condition)

Higher level of selectivity:

• Wood (hardwood and high quality wood prioritized over construction grade lumber, and we don't have any use for pressure treated or damaged wood)
• Hardware
• Items like wheels, gears, 

 

No thank you:

• Spray paint
• flammable and explosive liquids and gasses 
• broken items to take apart

 

 

 

 

 

We're all set for now: 

 

Donating money

Donations

Most of the tools and equipment we have was donated or bought with donated funds. We appreciate your support! 

To donate items, please 

1. Check our list of items
2. Contact makerspace@rockvillesciencecenter.org
3. We'll coordinate with you about pickup or dropoff
4. After receiving the item, we will prepare an official letter to document your donation, with all of the information needed for tax purposes
   

To donate money, you can either:

• Make an online donation via Square
• Come in during Member Hours to make a donation in cash or using our Square point-of-sale system.

How to edit the wiki

To edit the wiki, please sign in using Slack to authenticate. If you run into problems, ask for access on the #general channel of slack.

This wiki runs Bookstack under the hood. They have documentation for how to use and edit the wiki on their website which may be helpful. Please let us know if you run into any trouble!

If you want to add something to the wiki and can't find the appropriate page, please put it at the end of the miscellaneous page, and let us know -- one of the Documentation Team will organize it.

Thank you for your interest and your help with the Makerspace!