Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Gravity is Optional

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Gravity is Optional

Hands on science that will blow your mind! Come experience things that most people will never see in another venue.

ACL RoboLoco Outreach Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: ACL RoboLoco

Home: Virginia, United States

Academies of Loudoun RoboLoCo, team 5338, demonstrates our 2024 FIRST Robotics Competition robot Rock'N'Rivets. Read our 2 children's books focused on robotics and STEM and learn how we impact our community through workshops and mentoring.

Learn to Solder by Nova Labs

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Learn to Solder! Make your own electronics project to take home.

Wobbly Robot

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Fabiana Cesa

Home: Virginia, United States

Come build a wobbly robot with us. You will get to assemble and wire this cute toddling toy plus you will give it a personality using all sort of art supplies. Activity funded by an Arts 275th Commemorative Program Grant (City of Alexandria, NEA).

Craig Trader's Chaos Machine

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Craig Trader

Home: Virginia, United States

The Chaos Machine is a large automated marble machine. What makes it chaotic is that everyone is invited to modify the machine, limited only by imagination and the laws of motion.

Fairfax County Master Gardeners

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Fairfax County Master Gardeners

Home: Virginia, United States

Master Gardener volunteers work in the community to promote research-based horticulture. Master gardeners provide public education related to creating and managing home landscapes, vegetable gardens, turf, and more!

Takeapart activity!

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Attendees can disassemble common household appliances, printers, and computers to see what makes them tick. Components and pieces will be sorted and recycled appropriately. You can get some hints about how tools work and what you need at home.

Have We Got A Mystery for You!

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Dia Michels

Home: District of Columbia, United States

Science Naturally is a local, small press committed to creating engaging STEM books. We offer titles for kids 0-14, fiction and nonfiction, and have books in a number of languages, including Spanish, Haitian Creole, Bengali, and more. Check us out!

Easy & Fun Game Development with AI

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Michael Barbine

Home: Virginia, United States

Showcasing PH3AR, a collaborative space where AI meets game development. Explore live demos, AI-driven game prototypes, and hands-on workshops. Discover how AI is transforming gaming and making development accessible to all.

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Faire: NoVa

Maker: USPTO

Home: Maryland, United States

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office We are a part of the Community Outreach Office and are here to help answer any of your patent and trademark questions!

The Magical Colored Shadows Playground

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Tamao Nakayama

Home: Virginia, United States

Is the color of a shadow really black? Step into a space filled with color and light at The Magical Colored Shadows Playground. Discover the colors you can create with your own shadow. Let's play and learn about light, shadow, and color in a fun way

e-NABLE D.C.

Faire: NoVa

Maker: e-NABLE D.C.

Home: Maryland, United States

e-NABLE D.C. is a nonprofit in the DMV area providing 3D-printed prosthetics and assistive devices while promoting 3D printing and STEAM education through community outreach.

Digital Art Challenge by DigiKidz Academy

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Carl Parker

Home: Virginia, United States

Try a simple 3-Step Challenge to get hands-on experience with digital drawing using Photoshop! Learn about digital drawing and its applications. Recommended ages: 8 and above.

Nova Labs

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Nova Labs is a vibrant makerspace where members learn, create, and collaborate. With access to tools, advanced machining, and technology, it's the perfect workspace for hobbyists, engineers, artisans, and entrepreneurs to craft, make, and prototype.

Cubewich: A Servo Arm Learning Game

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Brian Merski

Home: Maryland, United States

Cubewich is a block coding game in which you get to create different types of cube sandwiches with the use of a robotic servo arm. You can either use a preprogrammed Micro:Bit controller or program it yourself with simple coding blocks.

Mathnasium

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Mathnasium

Home: Virginia, United States

At Mathnasium we teach math so that students learn it, master it and love it. We work with students in 1st grade through 12th grade to help them catch up, keep up or get ahead.

Code: Empower

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Samantha Oh

Home: Virginia, United States

Code: Empower seeks to empower young girls in computer science through demonstrating the field's exciting potential and relevance to other fields. We will be utilizing Sphero Mini robots at NOVA MakerFaire. Follow us on Instagram @code_empower.

Conte's Bike Shop

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Conte's Bike shop

Home: Virginia, United States

Join us on how to maintain your bicycle. We will be doing flat repair clinic, and general maintenance clinic

Imagine. Create. Invent. Engineering with LEGO

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs Youth Robotics

Home: Virginia, United States

Let's engineer with LEGO(R) Let your imagination explore! Learn how you can build simple machines and clever contraptions using LEGO.

FutureMakers

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Matt Barinholtz

Home: Maryland, United States

Create an Art Machine! Stop by FutureMakers and build a kinetic cardboard creature using linkages, levers and fulcra! FutureMakers is a resource for invention kits for innovative classrooms and learning groups.

Woodson High School Robotics Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Cavbotics, the Woodson High School Robotics Team

Home: Virginia, United States

Cavbotics is a student-led FRC team that teaches students STEM principles. In six weeks, students build a robot from an empty frame to a fully-functional robot. For this year's game, the robot is able to shoot rings into a goal and climb on a chain.

Alexandria Library: Lego Mindstorms and More!

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Alexandria Library

Home: Virginia, United States

Did you know the library has sewing & embroidery machines, LEGO mindstorms, and more? Learn about maker opportunities at the library and take our LEGO Mindstorm robots for a test drive.

Smart Blocks®

Faire: NoVa

Maker: mazin badawi

Home: Virginia, United States

Smart Blocks®: user-friendly 2D & 3D canvas kit, versatile for education, challenges children mentally, ideal for fostering creativity, imagination, and confidence in fine motor skill practice and development.

Youth FIRST Robotics Program

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs Youth Robotics Program

Home: Virginia, United States

FIRST Robotics is a project-based, hands-on program that introduces students to engineering. Under the guidance of mentors, students learn to design and build a robot. They learn practical skills in fabrication, CAD design and programming.

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