The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is proud to be one of the few districts in the country  have a multi-faceted Fab Lab at the district level. Our Professional Learning Lab is thanks to the generosity of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Goodyear. The CMSD Fab Lab is open for all CMSD employees to learn about Digital Fabrication through workshops, and open lab time.  The CMSD Fab Lab also includes our Mobile Fab Lab.  The MFL visits K-8 CMSD schools to inspire young students with the wonders of digital fabrication and STEM through content focused projects. 

The Fab Lab also offers a Lending Library program where teachers can learn about and borrow digital fabrication machines and materials to use in their own classrooms. 

Many schools throughout our district also house Fab Labs or makespaces of their own.  From fully functional Fab Labs at schools like MC2STEM, to makerspaces at schools like Hannah Gibbons, and dozens of FABulous teachers taking on making on their own with 3D printers, paper cutters or electronics in their own classrooms all around the district. 

Our philosophy is that any student, teacher, or employee of CMSD should and and can have access to digital fabrication in a constructive way that supports their long term learning.  The goal of the CMSD FabLab is to introduce teachers and students to learning through fabrication and opening their eyes to technologies and possible careers they would not normally come across in a traditional classroom.

The focus of the CMSD Fab Lab is to give educators and scholars the tools to create and engage in Transdisciplinary Learning Experiences in which students create tangible artifacts of their learning that were made using digital fabrication.  

These physical demonstrations of learning utilize the design process, focus on core content embedded in real-world learning and result in students developing in all areas of the Profile of a Graduate. 

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As of now, due to high demand, the mobile fab lab is not visiting non CMSD schools.