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All in the Making -- Notes on Fab Lab Tulsa and Its 2014 Tulsa Mini Maker Faire

Aired on Tuesday, August 26th.

"Imagine. Design. Fabricate." Such is the tag line for the Hardesty Center for Fab Lab Tulsa. Fab Lab Tulsa, as it's commonly called, is -- per its website -- a nonprofit "entity that provides community access to advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication tools for learning skills, developing inventions, creating businesses, and producing personalized products. Fab Lab Tulsa is one of over 150 MIT-chartered Fab Labs in more than 40 countries and the first in the southeastern region of the United States. Furthermore, Fab Lab Tulsa is one of the top labs globally in terms of leadership, organization, support, size, and capabilities, and an excellent example of the impact a fab lab can make on a community." On this edition of ST, we learn all about that far-reaching "impact" from Nathan Pritchett, the executive director of Fab Lab Tulsa, who also brings us up to speed on the free-to-the-public 2014 Tulsa Mini Maker Faire, which will happen this coming Saturday, August 30th. This Fab Lab-sponsored event will run from 10am to 6pm at the Expo Square's Central Park Hall. (More details can be found at the Maker Faire's website.)

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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