Programs

JumpStart

JumpStart selects makers with great product ideas for a free eleven-week program providing coaching, mentorship, Generator membership, and tool trainings and classes — all to help them grow and launch their business.

Pitch It Fab It

Pitch It Fab It is a fast and interactive evening of pitches in which people with products in the early stages of development compete for a chance to collaborate with UVM’s Instrumentation and Modeling Facility (IMF) and Generator to bring their product to market.

Reckless Ideas

Reckless Ideas is a speaker series featuring a diverse mix of Burlington’s top thinkers and innovators at the intersection of design and science, created in collaboration with UVM’s Complex Systems Center and Champlain College’s MFA in Emergent Media.

Design Lab

Design Lab partners Generator’s maker-educators with school educators, after school programs, and other non-profits to provide engaging hands-on STEAM workshops (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) to students in grades seven through twelve.

Maker Mentors

Generator pairs expert makers, designers, artists, and engineers with curious and motivated young people in order to provide Vermont youth pathways towards STEM careers.

Artist-in-Residence

The Artist-in-Residence program helps artists, designers, and entrepreneurs advance and realize innovative ideas by providing access to Generator’s facilities, tools, and collaborative hivemind.

Spark

Spark engages women and gender non-conforming students in the STEM fields — that’s science, technology, engineering, and math — through a year-long design-thinking process to develop, prototype, and pitch an invention.

Question or inquiry about our programs? Please get in touch.