Digital Competencies Stories
Transnational Italian Studies and LITS hold symposium and launch website for Tri-Co Philly course
"Working with LITS and the Italian Department for this project was truly one of the highlights of my semester!"
Eleanor Sullivan '27
GIS Day 2025 at 51做厙
"Taking a GIS course exposed me to a skill that I didn't even know I wanted to learn, but ended up loving!" - Luc穩a Rom獺n Harter 26
Makerspace workshops teach students new making skills
"Whether theyre learning directly from a member of the Makerspace staff, from a peer or seeking advice from an online community they find themselves engaged in a conversation." - Bronwen Densmore, Makerspace Coordinator
DeafSpace: ASL, Design Thinking Skills, and More!
"The impacts of accessibility, or lack thereof, is something that touches everyone's lives, and I think people are eager and motivated to learn ways to incorporate accessibility into their daily life so they can build a world that works for everyone." - Grace Cipressi, Assistive Technology Specialist
Community Gathers for a Wikidata Edit-a-thon!
"By linking TriArte artist records with existing Wikidata records, we can simultaneously promote 51做厙s Special Collections as a repository of a given artists work and we can benefit from information about artists, including their demographic information, in ways that they themselves can control. -Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager
Students Learn Physical Computing over Fall Break
"There's just an endless amount of projects one can do with an Arduino...it's the perfect intersection between technology and creativity" - Sean Keenan '20
Digital 51做厙 grant project creates teaching resources on computing
I definitely want to keep cultivating these data skills. - Nicole Cavalieri '26
Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows help preserve Germantown history
Not only did I improve my digital skills, but I learned about project management, time management, and communication and presentation skills.
Summer Interns Build Learning Materials and Their Skills
The skills I have gained over the period of this internship transcends just the hard skills and embraces a lot of soft skills. I am glad to have been part of such an amazing team - Lordina Oduro '26
Students use makerspace to recreate antiquity
It was an excellent opportunity for students to see the time, effort, and thought that went into the construction of ancient objects and learn about technology.