Building Momentum

If you have been wanting to grab a seat to our Innovation Boot Camp course or our sUAS sessions- NOW IS THE TIME. We have limited openings this summer for these three courses. Contact Brad Halsey or Cheyanne Dwyer to buy your seat today! In either course you will walk away with all the technology you touch throughout the week, sign up today. #innovationbootcamp #IBC #buildmo #drone #training #learning #AM Albert Vega, PhD Henry Sullivan

We are here at #SOFweek2024 come see us in the small business section booth 4100! Drones? 3D printed shape charges? autonomous boats? We can teach you how to do it all! Come hear how. Cheyanne Dwyer Tom Sullivan Chris Sargent Carlos Villegas

Speaking of Small Business week, we will at a booth in the Small Business section of SOF next week. We already have some exciting meetups planned but would love to keep adding to the list, reach out to schedule a meeting today! Brad Halsey Cheyanne Dwyer Tom Sullivan Carlos Villegas Chris Sargent

Today for Small Business week we are talking about our first build as Building Momentum. This is the first training lab for Marine Maker in 2017. We landed the contract and then didn't have the funds in hand to buy the trailer and build it out. So the #pivot came in the way of a loan company who was very friendly for veterans and small businesses, thanks Streetshares. Then about two years later when this trailer had seen hundreds of students and thousands of miles across the US we had another #pivot. Classes needed to fit more than 8 students so we started building labs across the Marine Corps. We now have built over 35 Innovation labs across the DoD, Government, and for non-profits. Each with their own #pivots along the way. Does anyone else remember this trailer? #marinemaker #learning #buildmo #innovationbootcamp

It is National Small Business week! We have proudly been in operation for almost 10 years and through every trial have kept the doors open. We believe Small Business only survives if the leaders know how to pivot. So this week we wanted to share some #pivots. This first one is less of a pivot and more of a good trip down memory lane. This is our old workshop, one step up from Brad Halseys basement where we began, but only one. Notice the plywood walls and warehouse feel. This workshop held up to 5 companies at one time all operating. We were a WeWork with tools, an idea we would #pivot away from. In our bullpen (the upstairs portion) we could all hold hands without ever leaving our desks. To give privacy we turned old Shopbot boxes into small working studios with electricity. This is what we now affectionately call "The Shed" that makes us appreciate every square foot we currently occupy. Who knew us at the Shed? #buildingmomentum #learning #theshed

Two BEAUTIFUL sights this morning at Build Mo HQ in Alexandria. 1. An empty office. 2. An empty classroom. That is because the 12 students that have been going through sUAS training and all our trainers are out at a flight day. Students will get flight time with the drones they built from the ground up and our FAA certified trainers will be their to guide them. They will not only fly their drones but they will try to complete a set of missions, fix their drone in the field with limited resources, and then take it ALL home with them so they can keep practicing. This 5 day course is not just a "learn to fly course" but is teaches drones from build basics all the way through to flight. We will be offering this class in our by the seat model in August. Do you want to join? #innovationbootcamp #buildmo #training #sUAS #DoD #militarytraining #learning

We are going to be a SOF week in a few weeks! Our team would love to chat with you about how our hands on technology training could be a valuable asset for your team. We also would love to see former students and friends who want to connect! Tom Sullivan, Brad Halsey, Cheyanne Dwyer, Carlos Villegas, and Chris Sargent would love to see you. But we won't all be there the whole time, so if you want to connect please reach out to schedule a meeting! #SOFweek #innovationbootcamp #conference #training

Hear right from our incredible team member Ruchi Saraf about our sUAS course! In order to prep the team had a flight day last week. Keep up the great work Ruchi! #learning #innovationbootcamp #training

Will you join us tonight for a great happy hour with MatterHackers, Inc.? We hope to see you soon! #buildingmomentum #AM #seaairspace2024 #happyhour