"They take on a flavour of their local community so we're looking forward to seeing what Masterton does with one.
"Someone can come into the Lab with an idea, make a great prototype and start up a business or sell the product. "We can help with that and maybe bring some resources into it and foster their ideas.
"But it's not just the equipment," he said. "It's the ethos around making. It will open up a whole new range of possibilities for the region, for economic development, for education, for business, the whole thing."
A Makercrate from Christchurch will be coming to Masterton Library in August which will provide the community with mini-demonstrations on what can be achieved in the Fab Lab.
The Fab Lab Trust already has a programme paid for and booked in by 200 students and their teachers for Term 4.
The students in this leading programme are from Masterton Intermediate, Wairarapa College, and Hadlow School.
All 47 schools in Wairarapa have been briefed about Fab Lab Masterton and are keen to jump on board once Fab Lab is up andrunning.
Ms Browne said this is why it is crucial that the funding requirement to establish the lab is met by Trust House as soon as possible.
"You see, we have a really unique situation in Wairarapa where we have all of these really good schools - we've got 47 of them. So these kids will come up through our amazing schools and get to university level, but then there's really nothing for them to come back and do here in Wairarapa after after they have learned that extra stuff.
"When the Fab Lab is operational, we want to nickname Masterton "Makerton" because it will be where all of the makers and innovators will come to live.
"That's part of the excitement. We're not the first to make a Fab Lab in the world, but we're the first in New Zealand to do it this way - where we integrate it into our schools' curriculum and also make it available for all of our citizenry and for all of our businesses.
"We want Wairarapa to be better - to attract skilled professionals. And there are a lot of them here but they go elsewhere to do their work or they take their expertise elsewhere."
Mr Hart says that opening the Fab Lab in Masterton will be a catalyst for change.
"This will be a facility that Auckland school kids won't have access to," he said
"We will literally be leapfrogging to the latest technologies.
"You'll get kids coming through, learning this stuff and getting excited about technology, and engineering and maybe furthering their learning in that area which is great for the country, and great for the region. But you'll also get businesses spawning.
"And you can only imagine when you've got thousands of kids spread across the whole region who have all got this background and the ability to make stuff they dream up, what's going to happen for our community."
The Fab Lab Trust are hoping that with enough community support, the initial funding of $150,000 will be granted by Trust House to establish the lab in Masterton.
