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Membership to the Berks LaunchBox
The Berks LaunchBox is a great resource located in Reading at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, and you can now become a member to access the makerspace. Berks LaunchBox has two membership options available, a full year membership for $99, or a 4-month membership...
Atmosphere of Innovation
The Berks LaunchBox strives to offer our coworkers and makerspace members a creative atmosphere to help generate ideas and build their companies. And guess what…you can feel it! Our coworking companies are sustainable, technology-based and socially responsible...
Adaptive Orthopedix LLC – Student Business Venture
If you’ve ever broken a bone or wounded a joint you know how long the recovery process can be, and just how annoying your sling, cast, etc. can become. Adaptive Orthopedix LLC is here to ease that recovery process for you with more comfortable, and breathable...
Reel Oxygen LLC – Student Business Venture
Debilitating lung diseases can alter someone's life forever. The rise of these chronic diseases means an increase in the number of oxygen tanks required for people to survive. Reel Oxygen LLC, headquartered in Reading, PA, creates products specializing in oxygen...
Laser Cutter Safety and Orientation Class a Success
The Berks Launchbox’s Laser Cutter Safety and Orientation Classes were full of excitement for the interesting projects possible! The four hour class, held over two nights in early August included time for each person to print a custom coaster with their own artwork or...
Vytah Fit – Student Business Venture
If you’ve ever thought about starting a workout routine by going to the gym but were intimidated because of other people watching you as a beginner, or maybe you were intimidated by not knowing how to lift the weights properly. Vytah-fit is here to help you. Vytah-fit...
Exeter School District STEM teachers learn about Entrepreneurship
Eight STEM educators from the Exeter School District attended a professional development presentation at the Berks LaunchBox on June 12, 2019 run by Patty Leshinskie, facility coordinator. They had a brief introduction to LaunchBox and tour of the facility including...
GoggleWorks Summer Campers Learn about Becoming Entrepreneurs
Do children know what it means to be an entrepreneur? Ryan Morris, recent Penn State Berks graduate and founder of a startup, Traduki met with GoggleWorks Center for the Arts summer camp kids at the Berks LaunchBox to find out! The campers got a better understanding...
Glenside Elementary STEM Day with the LaunchBox
Fifty children from the Glenside Elementary Summer Academy put on their “Engineer Thinking-Caps” to learn about Engineering on July 10, 2019. The children in grades K-3 worked to design and build 3 fun projects at stations run by the Berks LaunchBox staff. They built...
Engineering Ahead Students Visit the Berks LaunchBox
Penn State Berks "Engineering Ahead" students spent time at the Berks Launchbox in July finding solutions to problems that focused on thinking outside the box, while utilizing 3D printers to print a boat they designed in Solidworks. Back on campus, they are going to...