New Hampshire Destination Imagination– New Hampshire Destination Imagination encourages students from kindergarten through college to have fun, take risks, focus, frame, and solve challenges with their education. Incorporating STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics), they are focused on 21st century learning programs that promote teamwork and prototyping. They will be bringing a hands-on activity to Maker Faire called “The Grape Crusher,” where participants will design and create a protective device to keep a grape from being crushed. Other similar activities will be offered as well.
Bay State Ghostbusters– They are back for their third Maker Faire! Though, the local Ghostbusters will not have a table at the Faire, you will be able to find them all over town, looking for spooks, goblins, ghosts, and ghouls. They’ll test your psychic powers and may even have a treat for you! Be sure to ask about and collect their personalized trading cards too!
3D Printing from Hanscom Middle School– Come see how this school in Massachusetts is using 3D printing to teach students math in a creative and fun way and how you can do it too! They will be making everything from puzzles and mazes to constellations to ancient pyramids using 3D printers at Maker Faire. They will also have a few laptops for participants to design their own projects.
EPLIS Comics with Emily Drouin– EPLIS Comics is a fun for all ages sci-fi, action-adventure comic book series written be Emily and Jeremy Drouin and illustrated by Emily Drouin (for more of her work, check out http://www.emilyatplay.com). Emily and Jeremy Drouin will be leading a workshop called “Monsters: Friend or Foe” throughout the day, teaching kids how to draw cartoons from Disney movies, TV shows, and comics and talking about what makes certain characters cute vs. scary. They will also be selling their comics, drawing caricatures, and providing free coloring pages.
Makers in Manchester– This group will be bringing some of their own makers to the Faire, where they will be presenting their projects. At last year’s Maker Faire, projects included robotics, ham radio, prop making, and a haptic keyboard. Come by their table to check out what they have created this year!
