Serving as a model for technological innovationSaigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) partners with BUILD-IT on the implementation and operation of the Ho Chi Minh City Maker Innovation Space. By providing the physical space, the staff and ongoing operations, SHTP helps BUILD-IT universities realize their goals of infusing applied project-based learning into engineering and technology curriculum. This is a place to design, create, prototype and invent products and services through a variety of entrepreneurial and curricular platforms being introduced through BUILD- IT.
Fostering Vietnamese STEM innovation and skill-buildingThe Maker Innovation Space is open to industry, local community-based organizations and university partners to launch service-oriented programs, such as EPICS, industry-sponsored eProjects, hackathons, design thinking competitions and senior design capstone projects.