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Base 11 Innovation Center Grand Opening

IDMI’s manufacturing and design partner Base 11 will be celebrating the grand opening of their Innovation Center at Applied Innovation at UCI on August 7, 2017 at 5:00pm.  The event is free and open to all with an RSVP. Base 11 is a non-profit workforce and development entrepreneur company deploying a STEM Accelerator model that More +

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IDMI Mfg and Design Partner Base 11 Holds Innovation Center Tour

IDMI’s Manufacturing and Design Partner, Base 11 offered private tours of the Base 11 Innovation Center at UCI on May 24, 2017. The well-attended event featured presentations from students in Base 11’s Academic Year Internship and STEM Entrepreneur programs. Students also took questions from the audience to further detail and discuss their projects.  IDMI Director, More +

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TOM:UCI Makeathon Set to Harness Cutting-Edge Technology to Design Affordable Solutions for People with Disabilities

  (Irvine, CA, April 25, 2017)  Professional, amateur, and student engineers, designers and innovators will gather at the UC Irvine’s Institute for Design and Manufacturing Innovation in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering this weekend, April 28-30, for TOM:UCI, a three-day technology marathon where participants will work with local people with disabilities to develop solutions More +

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Summer STEM Learning Thrives in our Institute

  In September, 2016, IDMI opened its doors to a multitude of youth through a variety of outreach programs, giving students a taste of what it would be like to study engineering at UC Irvine. The FabCAMP has become a summer routine on our campus. “We need to encourage kids to be creators and not just More +