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Students often pay money to access training. Protospace uses that money for tool repairs and even new tools. You made that happen! | Students often pay money to access training. Protospace uses that money for tool repairs and even new tools. You made that happen! | ||
===Your Makerspace community becomes more | ===Your Makerspace community becomes more knowledgeable about tools=== | ||
Makerspaces with knowledgeable makers have tools that break less, are maintained better and can even be actively improved. | |||
===Serendipity and a stronger community=== | ===Serendipity and a stronger community=== | ||
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===Teaching makes you more knowledgeable=== | ===Teaching makes you more knowledgeable=== | ||
Teaching well requires a strong grasp of the subject. Forcing yourself to teach forces you to understand the subject better - simplifying your own understanding, articulating it to the less experienced, concocting new ways to describe ideas are all ways that deepen and broaden your understanding of a subject. | |||
Every now and again, someone you trained will continue down the path you set them on and teach you something you didn't know. This has happened numerous times at Protospace already! | |||
===Opportunity costs=== | ===Opportunity costs=== | ||