Educational Programs in Burlington, Vermont

Generator provides educational & learning programs for all makers, thinkers, and innovators. Programs like Jumpstart, Pitch It Fab It, Reckless Ideas, Design Lab, Mentor Days, Artist-In-Residence, and more! Browse all of our offered programs.

JumpStart

JumpStart selects makers with great product ideas for a free twelve-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.

Mentors Days

Mentor Days brings regional mentor programs to Generator’s facility for hands-on maker activities to increase youth access to STEAM education and increase social capital by providing structured time, resources, and space for mentor programs to innovate and learn together.

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.