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.

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