If you love the concept of making things with your own hands and creating things with your own mind, have they got a party for you this weekend. Whirlpool Centennial Park below the bluff in St. Joseph will spring to life with hundreds of like-minded people who are the creators, innovators, risk-takers, and idea generators among us ready to roll out the red carpet on the 4th Annual Southwest Michigan Mini Maker Faire coming Saturday, June 2nd to 330 Broad Street in St. Joseph.
From 10am until 4pm that colorful park alongside the Whirlpool Compass Rose Fountain will be bursting with energy as organizers from the Berrien Regional Educational Services Agency (Berrien RESA), Cornerstone Alliance and Kinexus play host to a great day of activities for all ages. Additionally, the event is supported by Honor Credit Union, Midwest Orthotics, JR Automation, Hanson Mold, Bosch Community Fund, and Beaudoin Electric, and the showcase is presented in partnership with Maker Media.
The fourth annual Mini Maker Faire will be a day of family-friendly making, learning, crafting, inventing and tinkering below the bluff in downtown St. Joseph. It’s an opportunity for everyone to be inspired by makers, designers, artists, crafters, engineers, scientists and technologists from across the region. Entry is free to all and there will be many opportunities to get hands on and make “stuff.”
These are some of the talented makers participating in the Southwest Michigan Mini Maker Faire and the activities being offered:
- Blossomland Amateur Radio Association
- Cycle-Re-Cycle
- Fab Lab at Lake Michigan College
- Fresh Coast Candles
- Hacking Ride On Cars for Kids to Create Explorers! with GoBabyGo Seattle
- Kids can code with Dash Robots!
- Kona Ice
- Learn to Solder Station
- Lego Club on the Road
- Make & Launch Air Rockets, Comstock STEM Academy
- Make & Take 3D Printing, Comstock STEM Academy
- Mr. Nick Davio with special guest Miss Angie
- MSU Extension – Berrien County 4-H
- Nerdy Derby Track
- PhycoTech Edible Aquifers
- Rope Maker with Joe Simon
- Steamroller Print Making
- Take-Apart-Station
- The Village Blacksmith, Ted Guimond
- Wand Making with Grace Rommel
Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow the community.
Southwest Michigan Mini Maker Faire is independently organized and operated under license from Maker Media, Inc. Learn more by clicking the link below or by following along on social media including on Twitter: @swmimakerfaire and on Facebook: http://facebook.com/makerfaireswmi
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