Our first week of Summer Camp is in the books! From 3D printing and laser cutting to resin art, soldering, and cardboard engineering, campers explored the Nova Labs makerspace while creating projects that showcased their creativity and new skills.

Announcing the release of the 2025 Annual Report. It was year of both impact and opportunity at Nova Labs. Once again, the kindness, generosity, and resilience of our members and affiliates shone through. We continue to be deeply grateful for — and inspired by — this community.

We are opening our doors to the public with our 2025 Open House! This is a great opportunity for us to show the community how we've transformed our makerspace since we moved to Fairfax City in 2022.

Summer Camps are Open for Registration This summer, take time to MAKE! Spark and unlock your child’s creativity with a camp at Nova Labs MakerSchool. Your YOUNG MAKERS (K-3rd grade) can become a LEGO master builder, a wizard, or an artist. These camps provide rich, creative environments for our youngest makers to soak up the maker ethos. Your KID MAKER (4th - 6th grade) will get to build space stations, windmills, castles, catapults, lashed together bamboo structures, and mor

This year Makerschool was grateful to receive grant support from the VELA Education Fund, which focuses on non-traditional and new approaches to education. VELA recently featured Makerschool in a “Selfie” video story about the work we are doing, and had a great writeup on the VELA blog: This fall, a team of instructors hosted a weekend workshop for teen girls to learn welding, woodshop, and metalshop skills. During the worst of the pandemic, Nova Labs even hosted a “makerscho

NL Makers Repairing Old Sewing Machines: Revived & Reused for Refugees’ Economic Prospects, for Women’s Health, and for the Environment Article by MakerSchool English 7th-12th Grade Class Interview of Isaac Zama and Kathy McCabe conducted by MakerSchool English 7th-12th Grade Class Edited by Melanie Cameron Nova Labs Makers are making with a purpose! Sewing machines destined for landfills are given new life, and women who have lost their homes and livelihoods are being given