Student Jonathan Dharmadi wins contest to name RIT’s new maker and learning complex Elizabeth Lamark Jonathan Dharmadi, center, a third-year new media design student from Elmhurst, N.Y., devised the official name for RIT’s new maker and learning complex, now officially known as the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED). RIT President David Munson, left, and alumnus Austin McChord, right, announced the new name with Dharmadi on Friday. Rochester Institute of Technology has an understated new name for a high-tech complex that will soon centralize the university’s makerspace and performing arts. RIT announced on Friday that the facility currently under construction will officially be called the Student Hall for Exploration and Development, or simply “the SHED.”