'As a result of a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) course I was taking at Framingham State University in Instructional Technology, I had to develop a final report and project that had to do with technology infrastructure. I asked the senior library staff if I could propose the creation of a hypothetical new Makerspace for the library as my project. I was shocked when a few months after I gave them a copy of my report, they asked me to actually create the Makerspace with money from a grant they had been awarded to increase teen involvement at the library. This was the grand opening of the Makerspace. Pictured, from left to right: Jay Miller (videographer for Community Cable), myself Pat Monteith, Mark Linde (chair, Library Board of Trustees), Larry Siskind (Board of Trustees of the Library), Jean Bradley Derenoncourt (Board of Trustees of the Library), and Paul Engle (library director). Location: Brockton Public Library, downtown Brockton.'
