Here There Be Dragons: A Case for All-Ages Arts Events
Our yearly venture to Chalk The Block made me realize the importance of family-friendly arts festivals.
Continue ReadingOur yearly venture to Chalk The Block made me realize the importance of family-friendly arts festivals.
Continue ReadingThe Maker Faire is, of course, a celebration of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). Improbable machines, hands-on activities, and lots of robots. I moved to Portland from the Kansas City area, where we had a large regional Maker Faire. You’d think that Portland’s smaller, Mini Maker Faire would be a bit of a […]
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Continue ReadingThis past weekend my family and I made a two-hour trek to Loveland, Colorado, for the state’s first-ever NoCo Mini Maker Faire.
Continue ReadingWe’re so excited that Colorado now has its very own Maker Faire! If you’re within driving distance, be sure to join GeekMom Judy and me on Saturday, October 5th at the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology for some Maker fun!
Continue ReadingIf you have an interest in 3D printing, Maker Faire has the power to turn that interest into an obsession.
Continue ReadingToolbox Jewelry is one of the best Klutz kits yet, perfect for young, fashionable makers.
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Continue ReadingKansas City is actually a pretty cool place to be a maker. It’s one of a few locations of the larger “featured” Maker Faires. The other locations are Detroit, Newcastle (UK), Rome, and Tokyo. It’s still about one tenth the size of the World Maker Faire in New York, but over 10,000 attendees is still not bad. If you’re in the midwest, it’s worth the drive.
Continue ReadingMaker Faire: North Carolina descends on the NC Fairgrounds this Saturday with a bevy of projects to inspire you and your kids.
Continue ReadingCome meet some of the GeekMoms and GeekDads writers in the Expo Hall at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, May 18th and 19th!
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Continue ReadingVintage Tomorrows reaches into subcultures of the past, then gathers the steampunk subculture of today to talk about what steampunk is, why it’s important at this point in time, and what it can teach us about the technology of the future.
Continue ReadingCatch up with what the GeekMoms have been doing this week.
Continue ReadingThe Open Hardware Summit was held for the third time on Thursday in New York in advance of this weekend’s World Maker Faire in nearby Queens. Here are a few of the highlights from the event.
Continue ReadingA delightful sampling of GeekMom links and others from around the geekosphere.
Continue ReadingCatch up with what the GeekMoms have been doing when they’re not writing about the world of geekdom and parenting for you!
Continue ReadingOne of the booths my son and I went to at the recent Maker Faire in the Bay Area was ScrapKins. There, we were taught how to take a toilet paper tube and turn it into a monster. My son was quite creative with his, but it is practically NSFW, in an eight-year-old boy kind of way. So instead, I’m showing you what some of the other kids at the Faire put together.
Continue ReadingCatch up with the GeekMom writers and their off-blog activities!
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