Funding
We are excited about our programs to fund design and making education at Stanford, support research on making in education, and recognize outstanding members of our educational community. Four programs directly fund courses, making spaces, and other educational activities at Stanford: Maker Fellows, Making Mentors, Making Materials, and Making Equipment.
Deadline to apply for Spring 2024 funding is 5pm Friday, April 19, 2024.
Join the mailing list to stay updated on the next round of funding.
Making Fellows
The Making Fellows program provides funding for student course assistants, student shop monitors, and other part-time student employees to support courses with a substantial physical design and making component, makerspaces that emphasize education, or other activities essential to the making@stanford mission.
Making Materials
The Making Materials program provides materials for student design projects in making courses and makerspaces.
New courses or activities can be proposed by applying to one or more of the above programs and linking proposals within each form. For all of the above programs, proposals will be evaluated based on educational impact. We encourage applicants to consider the principles behind the making@stanford initiative, the problems that it seeks to address, and the priorities for funding physical design and making activities, described at the About Page.
Independent Study Student Grant Pilot
The making@stanford Independent Study Student Grant Pilot Program is designed to support the work of students in the Stanford making community. This program will grant up to $300 to students in quarter-long independent study courses.
Each of these funding programs builds upon what we've learned from past and ongoing making@stanford projects.