Where You
Transform Ideas
Into Reality
Texas Inventionworks is a vibrant hands-on education program and innovation hub at UT Austin dedicated to exploration, building experience, multi-disciplinary collaboration and solving real problems.
TIW is open Monday-Friday from 12PM-5PM. The TIW Woodshop is closed for summer and reopens in fall.
How will you
Step Up
Explore our website, visit our facilities and meet our staff
Tinker
Experiment with tools and equipment and develop technical skills
Make
Build skills through design and bring an idea into the world
Solve
Take designs to the next level or dive deeper into a problem by creating something new or adapting something old
Invent
Identify a meaningful problem, develop a solution and demonstrate that it can work in the real world
In the Works
See what the TIW community has been working on.
Welcome to the Calihorn Community
Our professional staff and uniquely empowered student staff provide broad experience, technical expertise and a welcoming peer-to-peer learning environment. They created our own mascot, the Calihorn, which is often printed to help calibrate our 3D printers.
