The two-story, 33,000-square-foot space at 2050 N. Massachusetts Ave. will replace the existing center on Second Street when it opens in 2025.

“Today’s groundbreaking is more than a symbolic gesture – it’s about laying the foundation of hope and confirming our commitment to building healthy communities, caring for our neighbors and doing work for the greater good,” said Jarrod McNaughton, IEHP’s chief executive officer.

The San Bernardino CWC was the first of three Community Wellness Centers to open in the region, followed by Riverside and Victorville. All centers provide access to holistic health-based resources to IEHP members and non-members at no cost.

The new CWC will host amenities not available in the current 6,500-square-foot location, including:

• Six multi-purpose rooms that will double as accessible spaces open for the community to host meetings and gatherings.
• A state-of-the-art integrated teaching kitchen with seating up to 50.
• Five partner suites for integrated community-based organization (CBOs) partners to provide services to residents.
• A multi-media room with tools to accommodate tech-based learning and growth.
• An expanded class schedule.
• A children’s room and teen center for all-day programming.
  
  For many, CWCs have created lasting bonds between site staff and all who walk through each center’s doors.

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The $39 million Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) building is expected to open in the 2023-2024 academic year. The 56,863-square-foot building will feature three floors. MSJC’s voter-approved Measure AA facilities bond will fund half of the project while the state’s Prop. 51 will fund the other half.

MSJC contracted with Redlands visionary Garner Holt Education Through Imagination (GHETI) to build the animatronic makerspace that debuted to students and the public on Tuesday. It’s the first time Garner Holt has built an AniMakerspace at a community college. Founder Garner Holt attended and spoke at the event.

The GHETI AniMakerspace — in conjunction with MSJC design and engineering classes — gives students the ability to learn the practices and skills needed to become great problem-solvers, designers, builders and technical operators. The $832,472 AniMakerspace took over two classrooms in the 100 Building on the campus and is adjacent to the future STEM building.

Animatronics date back to the early 1960s with the famed Imagineers at Disneyland. Garner Holt Productions has made nearly 500 animatronics for Disney, including the dragon in the “Fantasmic” show at Disneyland.

The AniMakerspace features three animatronic figures, 3D printers, programming tables, two laser cutters/engravers, sewing machine, 10-needle embroider, 86-inch monitors, and more.

The AniMakerspace arrives a few years after MSJC’s Eagle MakerSpace, housed on the college’s Menifee Valley Campus. It features 3D printers and a laser cutter that students use throughout the academic year to create various projects.

Both MakerSpaces were funded by the California Strong Workforce Program, a state initiative aimed at developing more workforce opportunity and lifting low-wage workers into living-wage jobs through Career Education.

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