Make was at the OSHKOSH Air Show on Tuesday and we’ll be back there on Wednesday. Associate Publisher Dan Woods and Contributing Editor Bill Gurstelle are with me at the event. The size of the event is impressive — with a fly-in community pitching tents next to their airplanes. We also watched the air show in the late afternoon.
If you’re a maker in attendance or exhibiting, send me an email if you’d like to meet up and chat. We’re trying to meet makers at OSHKOSH. We met with Make subscriber Sebastian Heinz of Zenith Aircraft whose company develops kit planes.
DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term โmakersโ to describe people who enjoyed โhands-onโ work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.
In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a โChampion of Changeโ through an initiative that honors Americans who are โdoing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.โ At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.
Dougherty is the author of โFree to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Mindsโ with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.
View more articles by Dale Dougherty ADVERTISEMENT
Related Articles from Make:
