Maryland's Creativity Sensing Δ 22th of September 2015 Ω 10:41 PM

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Potomac Collaboration with Fab Lab at the Community College of Baltimore County
Potomac’s move to the UMBC campus reaped a number of benefits for Potomac, one of which was most unexpected.
The new facility is located about a mile from the Community College of Baltimore County [CCBC]
where Fab Lab Baltimore [FLB] is located.
Like many Fab Labs in the international MIT network,
FLB is continually exploring ways to create a sustainable business model for the lab.
Community colleges may provide space and equipment but operating funds are hard to procure.

To involve the local business community in the sustainability dialog,
Fab Lab Founder Ken Burch invited Potomac President and CEO Mike Adelstein to be part of a new FLB Advisory Board.

Potamac had the full complement of Fab Lab tools including 3D Printing, laser machining and marking, and CNC machining
but didn’t have the staff to work on the larger spatial-scale jobs that come through extensive marketing communications program.

What CCBC didn’t expect was that the collaboration with Potomac would give its people new skills and insight
that they would bring back to FLB and apply to commercial settings.

Fab Lab Baltimore has interns from CCBC, UMBC, and also the Maryland Institute and College Art that Potomac hired through FLB.
Potomac was impressed that the interns they hired were such quick studies.
Demonstrating solid skills these talented interns were able move up to more sophisticated work for the company such as laser micromachining.
The collaboration also allows Potomac to take macro scale work
that they would not have taken otherwise
since it’s not in their core business model of medical device and Biotech applications.

Staff that Potomac hired bring a level of creative design
that also opened up some new digital fabrication projects.

The City of Annapolis Maryland had Potomac laser mark sailboat-shaped bike racks with designs new staff created.
The paid interns bring Digital Fabrication skills such as working with CAD,
setting up lasers or other pieces of machines, and problem-solving.
Students are independent when they first start, and they have an amazing work ethic.

Since the interns are earning money, they are also happier and have a better attitude since they feel valued.

In addition to additional revenue, the Intern program builds workers
who are now readily employable given the skills they learned at Potomac such as quality control.
Potomac is one of the first to snap up FLB interns and bring them in as full time staff.

The partnership with FLB has reaped more benefit for both parties could have hoped.
It is another example of Potomac’s commitment to the local community
that also strengthens the company and provides its customers with the highest level of customer service.

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