Steve Davee is a curious person who helps cultivate more curiosity in the students he works with. He’s a Science & Math Teacher and Technology/ Documentation Specialist for Opal School and The Center for Children’s Learning of the Portland Children’s Museum. He is the founder of CoLab, which provides tinkering camps and workshops in Portland, Oregon.
How can we give more kids the opportunity to make things and bring them to exhibit at Maker Faire? That was the question asked first by Tony DeRose of Pixar, who realized how much he and his family enjoyed working on a project and exhibiting it at Maker Faire and wanted to help provide a similar opportunity for others.
You’ve got just more than a week to apply for Make Faire Detroit’s Craft Faire – have you sent in your application yet?
If you’re wandering the grounds of Maker Faire, you may happen upon the Swamp Kirin, a mechanical beast created by Seabat Studios.
Today, on the Center Stage at Maker Faire, Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, announced Hacking Autism, a social initiative for advancing and making accessible technologies to tackle the challenges that people with autism face every day. At the Faire, Phil will be encouraging software developers to join their team. This announcement ties […]
Blipboard is a geo-location social app. The Blipboard team has developed a nifty custom Blipboard sub-domain for Maker Faire. It’s a wonderful way of finding events and people at the Faire, based on your tagged interests and areas of the Faire where you’ve “checked in.” There’s also a schedule of events in the app and […]
At Maker Faire, there are always opportunities for “fangirl” moments. Celebrities like Mike Rowe and Adam Savage will be around this weekend, but my big fangirl moment came yesterday when I stumbled in to Sylvia of Sylvia’s Super Make Show. If you haven’t seen Sylvia’s videos before, take a moment to go watch them. She’s […]
