Heidi Klosheim is a Junior studying part-time at Millersville University and Columbia Southern University while serving full-time with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. She is studying Emergency Management with a concentration in Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (OSHA) and working as an Industrial Hygienist utilizing skills from the degree program in her line of work. A professor and mentor introduced her to this project. She found the topic interesting because students come from different backgrounds, have different interests, and develop motivation through various means. She wanted to devote energy to researching what those means were for the students at Millersville University. Heidi is passionate about people and building community among groups. She has found that lab-centered making and doing classrooms foster community among students. Researching students' motivations and analyzing the themes gained through making and doing courses has significantly increased her passion for this work. Utilizing the research and analysis skills from this project has proven helpful in her work, as she conducts qualitative interviews for workplace issues and hazards before conducting quantitative surveys and gathering data. Understanding a person's “why” and what brought them to a course or requesting a course of action has made instructing them much more applicable. This research is important because people are motivated by many factors, both through an educational institution and in the workforce. Understanding how that motivation affects performance can benefit both the student and instructor as methods of instruction can be modified to foster specific motivational themes found among groups of people.