YuKonstruct finishes third in Instructables competition

Despite a solid final effortinan international competition aimed posting do-it-yourself instructions online,YuKonstructmembers weren't able to clinch the top prize.

The Whitehorse makerspacefinishedthird out of 49 international makerspaces, places where people share tools and ideas.

The goal of thecompetition was to postas many"Instructables" as possible on the Instructables website.Instructablesare step-by-step instructions thatincorporatetext,photos and video on topics that range as widely as the imagination.

Andrew Kalek, a YuKonstruct member,said Whitehorse was leading the pack early in the competition, but saidmembers had to step up their efforts as the deadline drew closer.

"The first few months we actually kept it quiet among our members we did over a hundred, or just shy of a hundred in the first two and a half months," he said.

"In the last week when we realized we were falling back, we actually did 150. So, in the last week or two we had a lot of support."

Among Yukonstruct's252instructables were directions onwashing farm-fresh eggs andbuilding a telescope from scratch. For third place, YuKonstructwon$100 in 3-D laser printing services.

First place, worth $20,000 in new equipment, went to a makerspace in the United Kingdom and second place went to a makerspace in Ohio. YuKonstruct was just two instructables short of second place.