I don’t know what social activities are currently happening at Hoge. I will ask my son but he’s 3 years removed - things may have changed. I think they did regular gatherings like pizza socials, game night, movie night, and things like that, but the real value of Galileo/Hypatia is the engineering community helping each other through that difficult first year. After first year, most of them leave and spread out throughout campus and off-campus. They’ve made their close friends and they stick with them for living arrangements. I would guess that Innovate kids, especially with the new facility, will stick together in the building longer.
Hoge has a ‘maker space’ but my son only used it once or twice (but some kids spend all their free time there.) It looks like the Creativity and Innovation District has multiple maker spaces and studios.
If your plan is to stay all 4 years in your LLC and be a leader, I would probably recommend Innovate just because of the amazing community of 3 LLCs and the state-of-the-art facilities.