The university is opening a new makerspace, called the Invention Studio, which will allow students and faculty to design and create projects using cutting edge technology.

President Barack Obama, along with members ​of his administration's tech team, have voiced their support for a 14-year-old Dallas student who was arrested Monday after his school confused his rudimentary clock for a model of a bomb.

The Tinkering Studio, a makerspace inside the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco, received a $750,000 grant from the Department of Education and other sources.