Call for Pensacola Makers Now Open
May 21, 2024
Pensacola Maker Faire is accepting applications to exhibit in the Nov 16 event. Categories include Art, Music, Tech, Coding, Health and Wellness, Gami
Call for Pensacola Makers Now Open
Pensacola Maker Faire is accepting applications to exhibit in the Nov 16 event. Categories include Art, Music, Tech, Coding, Health and Wellness, Gaming, AI, Wearables and more.
Booths are free to Makers who are demonstrating their skill or are providing a hands on activity or workshop for the attendees. Commercial Makers are welcome, the booth fee is $75 for those selling onsite.
Thank you to these partners who help keep this event free: University of West Florida, Leidos, Code Ninjas and more.
Pensacola Maker Faire Returns
University of West Florida is happy to announce the return of the Pensacola Maker Faire! The annual event will be held on November 16, 2024. The Faire is a one-day, all ages event. Free to the public with registration. The Maker Faire will showcase 100+ maker exhibits, and signature events which include Tesla Coils, Baja Cars and more.
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Pensacola Maker Faire Announces the 2019 Makers
Over 90+ Makers will showcase their creativity and ingenuity at the 1st annual Pensacola Maker Faire November 16, 2019.
Expect to see exhibits, demonstrations and hands-on activities from some of the most creative and innovative Makers in our community including the students at UWF College of Science and Engineering, UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Sea3D Lab, Center for Entrepreneurship, IHMC Robotics, West Florida Public Libraries, Pensacola MESS Hall, Pensacola State College, Pensacola Museum of Art, Barehand Collective, First City Arts Center, The Marketing Bar, Pensacon, Pensacola Bay Brewery and many more.
Our Featured Makers:
- You won’t want to miss our special guest speaker – world-renowned game designer, inventor of SuperBetter and author of the New York Times bestseller, Reality is Broken – Jane McGonigal!
- Musical Tesla Coil Demonstrations by Tesla Universe. Tesla Historian Cameron Prince will be demonstrating and answering questions.
- The Flaming Royal Trumpets will be here from NY with an amazing show all day long
- Sea3D Lab will open for an up-close look at their new 3D printing lab.
- Pensacon will onsite to show you how to make amazing cosplay costumes.
- Nadia, the newest Humanoid Robot from IHMC Robotics will also make an appearance.
- Local craft brewers Pensacola Bay Brewery and Alga Beer will show you how to craft beer, sample the beer and tell us how it is!
- Universe Glitch is a 2nd grade magician, check the schedule for his performance time!
- and so much more…
For the full schedule visit www.pensacola.makerfaire.com/schedule.
Most Maker exhibits will be open the entire show. Check the schedule for specific performance times and locations.
Admission is free with registration. There may be a small fee for some Maker activities.
Presented by the University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering.
Please support this free event by sharing and following @pensacolamakerfaire #pensacolamakerfaire
Deadline Extended to October 15th
Are you a maker? Do you love woodworking? Maybe you weld metals together to form unique art or build unique bicycles. Maybe you create amazing costumes for Pensacon. Maybe do you create lotions and soaps in your own home or create amazing quilts… If this is you, you want to be a part of the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth! A celebration of the maker movement, Pensacola Maker Faire is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness. Categories include art & design, cosplay, gaming, early learning, energy, construction, ceramics, photography, craft food, gardening, robotics, and of course all things science and engineering. It’s a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learning.
Hosted by UWF Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, the first annual Mini Maker Faire is Saturday, November 16th at Historic Pensacola. Featuring more than 50 diverse makers with demonstrations and hands-on activities, this is one event you won’t want to miss.
Makers inspire others with their passion for making and teaching others the skills necessary for every form of making. The Pensacola Mini Maker Faire is a venue for every maker and tinkerer to showcase hobbies, experiments, and projects! Categories include gaming, photography and video, gardening, ceramics, crochet, quilting, energy, woodworking, art & design and of course robotics, science and engineering. We want students, individuals and businesses to apply to be a part of this spectacular event! Booths are free for students and individual makers. Fees apply if your are selling merchandise.
The Pensacola Mini Maker Faire Call for Makers will be open until October 15 (Late entries will be evaluated based on space). Don’t wait to submit your exhibit! Apply today!
What is a Maker?
America was built by makers — curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites. Maker Faire offers the opportunity for us to see ourselves as more than consumers; we are productive; we are creative. Everyone is a maker and our world is what we make it!
From the founder of the Maker Movement, Dale Dougherty,
“I believe we are all makers. We can find all kinds of makers in our communities. Yet we also want to help create more makers. Through education and community outreach, we can offer the opportunity to make things to more people, but particularly children. They might find these opportunities at school but also at community centers, summer camps and science centers, or even at home. My goal is that all people, young and old, come to see themselves as makers, creators and doers because I know that the people who have the skills and knowledge to make things have the power to make the world a better place.”
Here’s MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty speaking about makers, the people “who love doing what they do,” in his 2010 TEDx@MotorCity talk.
What is a Maker? Watch this short video.