Makers UPV

Makers UPV is a non-profit community of students from the Universitat Politècnica of València (Valencia, Spain) founded in April 2013, whose objective is to enhance the learning experience of students by adding a practical approach based on "experiential learning", Do it yourself and the Maker Culture.

Through projects, competitions and workshops taught by the students with special abilities (they acting as mentors), the community is retrofitted and grows.

In May 2016 the community held the first Spanish Hebocon,[32] a competition for crappy robots invented by Daiju Ishikawa,[33] which had the support of David Cuartielles,[34][35] father of the open-source hardware movement.

Typical workshops include: Arduino, programming, electronics, 3D printing, CAD, robotics as well as arts & crafts: cyanotype, sculpture, engraving or photography.

When a contest sounds interesting to them, they ask other members to join and multidisciplinar working groups are created for that special purpose.