Independence Community College will soon be able to take the Fab Lab on the move.

 

 At this week's meeting of the ICC Board of Trustees, trustees heard a bid to approve the purchase of a trailer that would house the ICC Mobile Fab Lab. This would allow ICC to travel to public schools throughout southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma to introduce students to the technology the Fab Lab has to offer. Rural Post-Secondary & Economic Development Grant Director Tamara Blaes says the low bid for building the trailer came in from Sundowner Trailers in Coleman, Oklahoma.

 

Blaes says the cost to produce the trailer would be no more than $240,000 with another $70,000 to pay for the truck to pull the Mobile Fab Lab. Funding for both would come from the Rural Opportunity Grant program. The trailer will be custom built and would be ready for use in spring 2025.

 

The board of trustees approved the purchase of both the trailer and the truck unanimously.