Our mission is to enable students (and other learners) to become courageous problem solvers. We help students develop the courage and skills necessary to transform their ideas into realities and cultivate a new generation of creators and innovators. Texas Inventionworks offers comprehensive training, skill-based workshops, curriculum support for faculty, support for product development and a welcoming community.
Vision Statement
We’re building a design, fabrication and innovation ecosystem at UT Austin that empowers students from all backgrounds to easily learn, collaborate, build and invent together.
Our Philosophy
When students engage with the different activities and resources at Texas Inventionworks they are "stepping up" to build the skills, mindsets and confidence that allow them to reach their full potential as designers, engineers and innovators.
There are several stages in this learning journey for students, but this journey is meant to be a flexible guide, not a directive path. Everyone's learning goals are unique. Whether a student wants to tinker, explore and play, or become part of a team making the epic climb to solve or invent – Texas Inventionworks welcomes you. Step up, join us, be inspired and begin to create what's possible.
What We Provide
Texas Inventionworks is open to students and faculty to use in support of their classwork or extracurricular activities and provides the UT community with:
Space and Equipment
We have over 25,000 square feet (the size of four basketball courts) of facilities and lab space that houses hundreds of machines for electronics, design, additive manufacturing, wood and metal working and more. Our equipment can support a range of activities, from tinkering, prototyping, making and solving in both academic and extracurricular pursuits.
Educational Programming
Our programs are designed to help students develop as designers, creators and innovators, no matter their current skill level or background. We offer community members equipment training, skill-based workshops, design competitions, community build events, advanced product development and start-up support. We also work with faculty to bring practice-based learning into the classroom. At Texas Inventionworks, there is something for everyone.
Supportive Community
Our professional staff and uniquely empowered student staff provide decades of experience, technical expertise, and a welcoming peer-to-peer learning environment. The staff forms the core of our community that welcomes people without experience, accelerates learning by doing and enables the creation of viable solutions to real problems.
