New TechShop Coming to Chandler, AZ

TechShop, the membership-based DIY workshop with five locations around the country, has announced an academic partnership with Arizona State University and will open a new TechShop in Chandler, AZ later this year. Chandler is about 20 miles southeast of Phoenix and its Chandler Innovation Center includes a city-funded technology incubator and Arizona State’s College of Technology and Innovation, which has more than 3,000 students. Students taking classes at the Center will be offered free memberships at the new TechShop and discounted memberships will be offered to other students and faculty. An announcement said that classrooms not in use by the college will be available for TechShop programs.

TechShop will also open new locations in Pittsburgh and the Washington, DC area later this year, thanks to a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs and DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 2,000 one-year memberships at TechShop will be given to American veterans. A TechShop is also in the works for Brooklyn, NY, slated to open in the winter or next spring.

8 Responses to New TechShop Coming to Chandler, AZ

Andrew Mace on August 2nd, 2012 at 4:45 pm said:

I want one in Jacksonville

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David McAlister on August 2nd, 2012 at 5:37 pm said:

this is great thanks and good luck

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Wayne on August 2nd, 2012 at 5:54 pm said:

Yes! Now I have one near me! I starting to seriously consider getting funding to open a center like TechShop in the Valley.

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Dave on August 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 pm said:

As great as this sounds, it almost seems like a walmart moving in to take over the local hackerspaces. I hope they work with the local hackerspaces and not against them.

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Paul on August 3rd, 2012 at 8:14 am said:

They should come to LIC not Brooklyn. It’s much closer to what will be the new Cornell engineering campus and it taps a market that’s not already served by 3rd Ward and NYCResistor.

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DarkStar on August 3rd, 2012 at 11:17 am said:

We need them back in Portland!

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Joe Bob on August 3rd, 2012 at 11:29 am said:

I want a lower membership cost.!!!

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Andrew L. Ayers on August 5th, 2012 at 3:01 am said:

I wish this was more centralized; I live in the west valley so getting to Chandler, while not impossible, isn’t exactly on my “to-do” list either. It’s the same thing with trying to go to HeatSync. It feels like nobody cares about makers in the west or central Phoenix areas (on a similar note, for some reason when I was recently job searching, it seemed like all the software dev jobs were in the east valley area, too). I would have really liked to see something like this pop up in central Phoenix – perhaps in the grittier industrial area around the Grand Ave/7th Ave area…oh well. Best of luck to them; maybe somehow I’ll find a way over there.

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