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Crafting the Ultimate Halloween Look: Join Gino DePolo’s Design Kickoff

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Crafting the Ultimate Halloween Look: Join Gino DePolo’s Design Kickoff

This Thursday, September 18th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, Monumental Impact is proud to launch its first Maker Spotlight — a new series designed to showcase inspiring creators and ignite hands-on learning in our community.

Leading this inaugural session is Gino DePolo, a maker,  cosplayer, and costume artist whose work transforms imagination into reality. From detailed Wolverine armor to glowing Iron Doom suits and mystic Moon Knight robes, Gino creates high-impact, cinematic looks — and shares with thousands across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. He is offering this Kickoff and a Workshop Series for others to explore digital design, fabrication and cosplay craftsmanship together in our community makerspace.

This week’s kickoff session is not just about showing off. It’s about sharing tips, tricks, and techniques — and collaborating with participants to shape a workshop series that will run on Thursdays from September through October. Whether you’re into cosplay, digital design, or just curious about building something awesome for Halloween, this is the place to start with an expert craftsman.

Iron Doom armor build featuring a 3D-printed core and metallic finishing by Gino DePolo.

🔧 What to Expect This Thursday

Moon Knight cosplay featuring layered fabric work and lighting elements, made by Gino.
  • Meet Gino DePolo, see his cosplay creations up close, and learn how he builds them
  • Explore costume-making techniques including design, fabrication, painting, and finishing
  • Share your ideas to help shape the upcoming Thursday workshop series
  • Ask questions, get inspired, and connect with like-minded makers

This is a hands-on, collaborative, and idea-filled session to kick off our fall creative member series — and this Thursday’s Kickoff is open to guests and members alike.

🎭 Gino DePolo’s Creative Builds

Gino’s work merges design, tech, and artistry to bring beloved characters to life:

  • Wolverine – Battle-worn armor with realistic claw integration
  • Iron Doom – Custom chestplate with glowing core and metallic finish
  • Moon Knight – Textured robes, lighting elements, and mystic detailing
  • U.S. Agent – Bold design, finished surfaces, and screen-worthy build quality

These creations don’t just look great — they showcase the kind of skills and techniques Gino will share in future workshops.

Moon Knight cosplay featuring layered fabric work and lighting elements, made by Gino.

📍 Maker Spotlight Event Details

🗓 Date: Thursday, September 18  
🕔 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📌 Location: Monumental Impact, 866 Highway 105, Palmer Lake
👥 Open to: Guests and Maker Members

Whether you’re dreaming of your next cosplay or just looking to explore the world of creative making, this kickoff session is your entry point. Help shape what’s coming next — and discover what you can build, together with us.

🌐 Follow Gino’s Work

Screen-worthy U.S. Agent costume designed and built by Gino DePolo.

🏛️ About Monumental Impact

Monumental Impact is a membership-based makerspace and community empowering creators, students, and entrepreneurs to explore, create, and compete.

We offer Maker Memberships for adults and Student Memberships for high school and college students, providing access to tools, space, mentorship, and collaboration opportunities.

Whether you’re launching a business, developing technical skills, having creative fun or competing in programs like Combat Robotics or FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), you’ll find support and inspiration here. Join our growing community and make something Monumental.

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Students Elevate Their Tech Game

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Thank you to Stephanie Gonzales, a freelance writer for Lewis Palmer School District 38 (D38), for her article on Monumental Impact’s Engineering Firm Experiences offered to D38 students through a collaborative partnership with D38. Under the Engineering Firm Experience the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) program is a competitive “sports of the mind” where students have “Go to Market” industry-like experiences as they prepare to compete, both in their robot’s capabilities and their business engineering portfolio.

Ready to enable student experiences

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Core to our mission is to enable student experiences. We now have a space, but how does that impact enabling student experiences, especially in a time of COVID? Well, it impacts our ability to have a home base to enable different types of student experiences even with COVID. We will use our space for: small team competition activities; training before a rotation of desktop equipment to a student’s home and; internships with home-based businesses.

What type of student experiences? With two of our industry areas of technology and engineering we are currently focused on enabling student experiences with fabrication and design capabilities. These two areas can be enabled with some out of the box thinking even with the restrictions of COVID.

For fabrication experiences we will start with 3D Printing and CNC router equipment (examples shown). Supplies include plastic filament, aluminum, lexan, router bits, Dewalt 611 router for these types of experiences.

The design area covers many different disciplines of engineering and graphics, even programming and entrepreneurial marketing. To provide design experiences you need high-end graphics PCs with software licenses for the discipline of interest such as mechanical, electrical, programming and graphics. By providing the equipment and supplies needed for these experiences, students interested in these areas are enabled to explore these career pathways.

We look forward to enabling students interested in learning design-to-fabrication techniques with desktop tools and supplies even with COVID. We also look forward to enabling small team activities for the Bearbotics that is still competing this season during COVID.

With these types of student experiences available to students interested in these fields, we will have enabled them in their journey even during COVID. With a will there’s a way to enable. We just need to think outside of the box. Will you help us enable these student experiences?


Monument nonprofit ‘impacts’ technology, engineering and entrepreneurship for local youth

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Thank you to Benn Farrell, a freelance writer for the Gazette, for his article in The Tribune on Monumental Impact as we were finding our footing in 2020 after COVID restrictions were put in place. We started our nonprofit one month before COVID and yet we still had six interns that first summer that worked remotely to help form and shape our internship opportunities for students interested in technology, engineering and entrepreneurship.