A budget exercise for a developing a user-designed makerspace or STEAM Lab. While time intensive, involving students in researching materials and proposing a budget will ensure a user-designed space. This exercise intentionally has a lot of blank worksheets and is very general, as every budget will be different and every space will have different visions and goals.When I did a test of this exercise with my after school students, it far exceeded my expectations, in that my diverse group of studen