Gorge Makerspace is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization serving the diverse makers, artists, and doers of the Columbia Gorge community. Our mission at Gorge Makerspace is to empower and inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to explore and build their creative skills. Through hands-on projects, camps and workshops, we help unlock the potential of the hands and mind, and reconnect people with the
ir power to make and repair. Our culture of innovation, collaboration, and lifelong learning, creates a space for everyone to discover their way to make a positive impact on the world. We envision a skilled, empowered, and resilient community, finding connection through collaborative problem-solving, creating, and experiential learning. The Maker movement, a worldwide community of inventors, crafters and tinkerers, believes that learning is best done through doing. At Gorge MakerSpace, students learn the fundamental principles of science, technology and math through their own creations—and have fun doing so. We are located at 32 NE Pioneer Place in White Salmon, sharing a parking lot with Bethel Church. We offer after school courses, open studio, and week-long camps for students of all ages. Gorge MakerSpace is directed by Jack Perrin, a licensed high school physics teacher with over 20 years' teaching experience in alternative education. A builder and tinkerer all his life, Jack founded a sustainable living school in Colorado where he taught straw bale construction, photovoltaics and rainwater collection. He and his family moved back on the grid, and back to his native NW to help make STEAM education in the Gorge a blast.
