This post was written by Lucy Gilbert-Fagen as part of the InnoHub blog series focused on how Mines students have used InnoHub resources to bring their projects to life.

“I wanted to go above and beyond for the Capstone Showcase!”

During our Capstone class, my team had worked diligently on creating a solar panel assembly that can be mounted on a car. As we approached the showcase I wanted to create some branded merchandise to make our team stick out among the crowd.

All the other Capstone teams just wear suits and business casual outfits with minimal pizazz. I wanted our team to have a little more character and standout. I thought that making custom matching shirts would be perfect for our team to wear while at Showcase. In addition I created some matching stickers with our team’s logo to distribute.

I used the t-shirt printer to print our team logo onto the pink shirts. This is a very straight forward process just very repetitive to make all the shirts. While the shirts were printing I also used the new sticker printer and Cricut Cutter to make the custom stickers.

“The shirts and stickers were such a hit with our clients and the other teams!”

One of the main things we had to keep in mind is that it’s difficult for the t-shirt printer to put light color inks on a darker shirt. Thankfully we were using a pink shirt which is pretty light, but its important to learn the limits of the machines we were working on.