Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Neighborhood Science @ Los Angeles Public Library

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Los angeles Public Library - Neighborhood Science

Home: California, United States

Come do some fun science experiment and hands-on STEAM activity and participate in real scientific research to help real scientists find solutions to many problems facing our planet today!

Aquarium of the Pacific

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Aquarium of the Pacific

Home: California, United States

Dive into the wonderful world of sharks and their amazing adaptations! Stop by our booth to investigate shark jaws, explore models, and snap a photo with our life-size Great White Shark.

Port of Los Angeles

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Port of Los Angeles

Home: California, United States

We will be engaging with students about how STEM relates to the Port.

Boundless Brilliance

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Boundless Brilliance

Home: California, United States

Visit our booth to learn about scientists from diverse fields and what it's like to be a scientist via a variety of hands-on STEM activities and take-home resources. We will also be hosting fun science demos every hour!

Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District

Home: California, United States

The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District (GLACVCD) is a public health agency that provides ongoing mosquito and vector control for its residents to protect them against vector-borne diseases, such as West Nile Virus.

Biocom California

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Biocom California Institute

Home: California, United States

Biocom California plans to provide an array of plant, bug, and animal tissue sample slides that booth participants can look at under an easy-to-use digital microscope. For many learners this will be an encouraging first experience using a microscope!

UC Santa Cruz, Creating Equity in STEAM (CrEST)

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: UCSC CrEST

Home: California, United States

UCSC Creating Equity in STEAM (CrEST) is an initiative which engages students in critical thinking in the context of STEAM research. We offer three main programs: Shadow the Scientists, Python and Research, and the Science Internship Program.

The SEED School of Los Angeles County

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: The SEED School of Los Angeles County

Home: California, United States

The SEED School of Los Angeles County(founded August 2022) is the first tuition-free college preparatory STEM boarding high school in California. We support our scholars 8-10 years starting at the 9th grade and through college completion and beyond.

NASA's Centennial Challenges

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: NASA's Centennial Challenges

Home: Alabama, United States

Do YOU have an idea that could solve one of NASA's biggest technology gaps? Visit the Centennial Challenges booth to learn about our public prize competitions and find out how you can contribute to NASA missions (and win some major cash prizes!).

Natural History Museum: Taxidermy Forms

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Home: California, United States

Go behind the dioramas with NHMLAC Taxidermist, Tim Bovard. Tim answers questions that take you under the skin of the iconic animal that the Museum is famous for. Join him and learn how to create bird forms for taxidermy. WORKSHOP TIME 2:00

Natural History Museum: Fossil Plaster Jacketing

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Home: California, United States

Dig into science with NHMLAC's Dinosaur Institute and meet world renowned paleontologists as they demonstrate fossil plaster jacketing. Learn how paleontologists care for fossils and how they safely transport them to museum for further research.

Southern California Rocket Association

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Southern California Rocket Association

Home: California, United States

The Southern California Rocket Association is a section of the National Association of Rocketry. We are a non-profit group that promotes the safe hobby of model rocketry and offer public model rocket launches at Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale CA.

Rocks For Cash

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Rocks For Cash

Home: California, United States

Rocks For Cash is dedicated to fostering the love of geology in children by allowing them to explore and learn through fun, hands on experiences.

Bolsa Chica Conservancy

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Bolsa Chica Conservancy

Home: California, United States

Join us for a deep dive into coastal wetland ecosystems! Learn about watersheds, ecosystem services, and the kinds of animals that call the Bolsa Chica wetlands home. You'll even get to meet a snake in person!

Marine Genome Project

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Marine Genome Project

Home: California, United States

The Marine Genome Project focuses on using genetic tools for marine conservation efforts, while increasing diversity, inclusion and accessibility to marine science.

NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry

Home: Utah, United States

Do you need a recharge? Why not build a battery? The first battery was built by Alessandro Volta in 1800, long before we had cell phones to power. With some household items, you can build a version of this battery yourself!

Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE)

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Samantha Leano

Home: California, United States

The Amgen Biotech Experience is an educational biotechnology program that empowers teachers to bring hands-on biotechnology curriculum into their classrooms.

Mount Wilson Observatory, Jessica Soto (STEM & Outreach Coordinator), Tim Thompson (Trustee & Astronomer)

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Mount Wilson Observatory

Home: California, United States

Mount Wilson Observatory's booth will have information on their historical significance, educational programs, special events, and an activity from their STEM program that demonstrates the science behind astronomy!

National Museum of the Surface Navy at Battleship IOWA

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: National Museum of the Surface Navy at Battleship IOWA

Home: California, United States

Come join members of the Battleship IOWA education crew to explore buoyancy and communication! Participate in our Tinfoil Boat Challenge and try Morse Code.

CSULB Science Learning Center

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: CSULB Science Learning Center

Home: California, United States

Explore different scientific phenomenon through hands-on activities with science and education students from CSULB. Children (of all ages) and families can explore science and engineering with a variety of everyday materials!

Cerritos College Biotechnology Program

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Cerritos College Biotechnology

Home: California, United States

Come learn about the Cerritos College Biotechnology Program. We will teach you how to use the micropipette, an important tool used in biotechnology labs.

Southern California American Chemical Society Local Section (SCALACS)

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Not Applicable

Home: California, United States

Come learn about the healing power of chemistry as well as how to get a charge out of chemistry! We will have interactive activities and will be passing out Celebrating Chemistry publication!

STEM Prep Schools

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: STEM Prep Schools

Home: California, United States

STEM Prep Schools will have hands on activities. STEM Preparatory Schools operates public charter schools in South LA & founded in 2015. We are committed to disrupting the status quo of inequitable access to high quality STEM paths.

Pasadena City College Chemistry Club

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: NA

Home: California, United States

Our table will have hands on chemistry activities! Come see how chemistry is related to your daily life!

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