[cess11]

In my part of the world it is a common thing among high schoolers, which form associations and use labs at school or a local university.

It's not uncommon that adults do something similar and run a community workshop with whatever the members are interested in.

[elric]

That is very cool. Over here we can barely keep the odd makerspace or hacker space afloat, nevermind anything related to biology or chemistry.