March was an odd…interesting month. It’s been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic struck our shores, our city, and our campus, and effectively shut down our on-site, in-person operation. But the flow of information does not stop, and so it’s interesting to reflect one what ‘bubbles up to the top’ during this crisis.
Totally glad to see our #1 tweet is the announcement of a podcast by our partners at MatterHackers – if the pandemic has highlighted anything it is alternative ways to consume (otherwise technical) information and this inaugural episode is chock full of interesting details about PLA! (We also believe that means MatterHackers has made it onto our list the last 3 months in a row!)
What we're listening to:
— QC Makerspace (@qcmakerspace) March 25, 2021
the team at @MatterHackers have launched 'The MatterHackers Podcast'. In the first episode @DGaylord3D interviews @DSoyboy70 from @natureworks on PLA's bio-origins & applications for #3Dprinting. This is fun listening!
LINK:https://t.co/vYZZ5XXvZP pic.twitter.com/7maFKboA6j
Those were fun to make 🙂
— QC Makerspace (@qcmakerspace) March 24, 2021
Station #4 is our preferred layout, but the different layouts will let us see how makers of different disciplines and skillsets approach these "grab-and-go" tool stations, how they use them, and receive feedback - all good things.
#GrabAndGo #GrabNGo pic.twitter.com/IFlYKVSjha
We’re equally glad to see our second most-trafficked tweet is the completion of our first 4 (of hopefully many more) ‘grab-n-go’ stations to accommodate a post-COVID makerspace environment.Â
A year ago we never would have thought this would be news…but here we are. One of our sister colleges providing over 100k vaccinations in 20 days – go team!
What we're reading:
— QC Makerspace (@qcmakerspace) March 17, 2021
Kudos to our sister colleges and colleagues at @NewsatMedgar & @YorkCollegeCUNY for spearheading & hosting #COVID19 #coronavirus #vaccine #vaccination efforts:https://t.co/HecHWbrVIe
Over 100,000 vaccinations in 20 days - amazing effort! pic.twitter.com/GZgzQOgpi4
What we're looking at:
— QC Makerspace (@qcmakerspace) March 23, 2021
the Vol.27 Issue #9 March 2021 issue of our very own @TheKnightNews "Queens College's student paper"
READ:https://t.co/WMwdi79sFL
Topics: the @CUNY contract with @PSC_CUNY, @annkpowers, the QCCA "community aid" club, & LOTS of nat'l news!#journalism pic.twitter.com/0teifALDx8
Our own student newspaper also made the pivot to online everything – and they’re on point as always with their topics of conversation & reporting.
Definitely a gratuitous finish – and no complaints from us! This tool is just cool – very useful, and the kind of thing we could have used decades ago 😤🥳
What we're looking at:
— QC Makerspace (@qcmakerspace) March 26, 2021
"themer takes a set of colors and generates themes for your development environment" and can be exported to work with various terminals, IDEs and other programs (web browsers, Alfred, Slack sidebar, & more!) - check it out:https://t.co/9nwmCqAgby#Webapp pic.twitter.com/pOzmPi6upd