Introducing the Amazing Maker Awards

Introducing the Makeys

Today, as champions of makers and the maker movement, we at Make: are excited to announce the 2022 opening of Amazing Maker Awards — aka The Makeys.

This new awards program is open to any individual maker or group of makers to submit a project for consideration. Accepted projects will be reviewed both by the community and an invited panel of judges. The finalists will be selected to be part of an online exhibition of amazing projects scheduled for this summer.

The Maker Community exists because makers work on projects and share them, which also spreads maker “know-how.” The pandemic has made it harder for makers to get together and share their work at places like Maker Faire. That’s one reason we created the Amazing Maker Awards. Another reason is we want to elevate the positive contributions of makers to society and recognize the ways that makers create value. These amazing projects can inspire others to become makers.

Now is the time to register to participate in the Awards but you have until June 1, 2022 to submit your project. You can be part of an online community to learn from while you work on your project.

What is a Project?

A project is a physical and/or digital prototype based on developing an idea of your own. We are looking for new projects, ones that have been started by January 2020.

How Will You Decide Which Projects are “Amazing”?

It won’t be an easy decision but we will enlist a lot of makers as a “jury” to review the projects and make the decision. We are looking for the kinds of amazing projects that we have seen for many years at Maker Faire — and we’ve seen a lot of great projects. Some have solved important problems, others made us laugh or wonder. Some have been shared widely and replicated by others, or even gone on to become commercial products. 

Projects will be judged on the basis of originality, ingenuity, quality of work as well as potential impact of the project.

Who Can Enter?

The awards are open to all makers of different abilities, backgrounds and ages (and we aren’t particularly concerned whether you want to call yourself a maker or not!). Student projects will be considered independently of adult makers.

Individual makers or groups of makers can enter a single project. Makerspaces and schools can enter multiple projects.

More Details to Come

We’ll be providing more details on the Amazing Maker Awards but sign up now to be sure to stay informed.

If you have a project, then prepare to submit a demo of it. If you don’t have a project, there’s time for you to get started.

Go to Amazing Maker Awards.

Thank you to our sponsors for supporting the Amazing Maker Awards: NVIDIA, 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers, and Restorer.