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A room built for making

Inside the Petrick Idea Center, a student venture went from sketch to shipped in eleven weeks.

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Illinois Wesleyan students talking together in a campus commons

Space shapes behavior. Give students a room with tools, mentors, and no wrong hours, and the work follows.

Eleven weeks after the first sketch, the cohort's first product shipped to paying customers in Bloomington-Normal.