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Investigating what constitutes a sustainable model for a Makerspace - how the community perceives and attains sustainability. Makerspaces are popular innovation spaces around the world. Through their distributed fabrication capabilities, makerspaces manufactured millions of personal protective equipment for front-line workers during the covid pandemic. Moreover, they contribute significantly to developing community-based learning, entrepreneurship, and STEM education. Unfortunately, many of these spaces experience difficulties and frequently fail.

Stress is a mental state involving emotional strain and tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. Individuals in academic campuses, particularly students often go through periods of stress throughout the academic calendar. Additionally, extreme events involving violence, such as shooting, mass stabbing, or terrorist attack in college campuses, induces fear, resulting in increased stress among the campus population, which gets reflected on their social media activities.

Today the public has become increasingly aware of the health impacts of a sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary behavior research continues to uncover the detrimental effects of sitting and has shown that the average American now sits during the day more than the time they spend sleeping. Activity trackers have reflected this shift in public awareness by beginning to track standing as well as the typical health metrics, like steps. The most prominent example of this is the Apple Watch with its Activity rings - the last ring is for stand hours.