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Maker UniDIVersity: The First Cohort

In early August, the KCI Underground MakerSpace hosted the first Maker UniDIVersity program, which was designed to support women, women of color, and women of special needs in becoming Makers. The idea for this program came from a conversation the team from KCI had with some of the people from Infosys corporation. The team from Infosys was talking about how they had just completed a series of YouTube videos to support making with the hashtag #whyimake . The first three videos on the site were short vignettes with Adam Savage , Nick Offerman , and Nolan Bushnell . The Infosys team then said they had an "oh no" moment, when they realized that all three of the videos profiled "three middle-aged white guys with beards." The following day, Lisa DeLapo, the KCI Innovator in Residence, came into the next morning and said we have do to something better. Lisa and Kyle Brumbaugh, the KCI Professional Learning Network Director, had been working on the development of a Ma