Thank You for a Terrific First Annual 2019 Pensacola Maker Faire!
Dec 6, 2019
Thank you to everyone that attended the First Annual 2019 Pensacola Mini Maker Faire! Makers, Sponsors, and Volunteers came from all around
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Say hello to the newest member of the Pensacola Maker Community!! He’s a robotic pelican who wants to be a Blue Angel Pilot! Help us give him a great name! Comment on our facebook and instagram with your ideas and make sure you like your favorite suggestions! The Winner gets a limited edition T-shirt and 2 tix to a fun party!
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming for a Better World
One of 25 Successful People Who’ll Help Change Your Life in 2018 – Success Magazine
Jane McGonigal is today’s leading speaker on the engagement economy and the application of game-design to the real world. Referencing lessons learned through her work creating games for organizations such as the World Bank, the Olympic Games, the American Heart Association, the New York Public Library, and many more.
Jane is notable for bringing gaming to the healthcare space. Her best-known project is SuperBetter, a mobile app and web-based game that helps individuals challenge personal health challenges (depression, anxiety, chronic pain, stress reduction), and get support from their “allies” — real-life friends and family. With one million players, it is currently under study at OSU Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania. Jane’s other healthcare games include collaborations with the American Heart Association and the Myelin Repair Foundation.
Jane McGonigal’s current book, SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient (debuted at #7 on the New York Times Advice bestsellers list), reveals a decade’s worth of scientific research into the ways all games change how we respond to stress, challenge, and pain. She shares stories and data from players who have followed the SuperBetter rules to get stronger, happier, and braver in the face of depression, anxiety, illness, and injury.
Her previous book, Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change The World, is a New York Times bestseller. In this engaging, forward-thinking book, Jane makes the case that the gamer spirit — an attitude of fun, dedicated, collective problem-solving — is our greatest asset as we face the social, economic, and environmental problems of the 21st century.
Jane herself is a specialist in this field, a designer of alternate reality games, where a real-life activity is re-framed as a game. Players of Jane’s games face challenges as serious as surviving peak oil or establishing local sustainable businesses. And they face them with courage and creativity, inspired by their gameful state of mind. Persistence, energy, collaborative creativity, a sense of purpose in hard work — games unlock all of these powerful attitudes. And, most importantly of all, it restores to contemporary life the kind of heroism and communal striving that most of us struggle so hard to find.
She serves as the Director of Game Research & Development with the Institute For The Future in Palo Alto, California.
Pensacola Mini Maker Faire
Museum of Commerce – 1:00 – 2:30 pm
201 E Zaragoza Street, Downtown Pensacola
Wristbands are required to attend Jane McGonigal.
Wristbands will be issued from 10-1 Saturday, at the Info booth inside the Voices Building.
1 per person – name and email is required to sign up.
Register now to get your free Pensacola Maker Faire tickets
For more information on Jane McGonigal visit her website here.
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Tesla Universe coming to Pensacola Maker Faire!
At Pensacola Maker Faire, you will be able to see two live musical Tesla coils in action! Cameron Prince is a Nikola Tesla historian and engineer of high-voltage displays and special effects. He has been featured on shows such as Three Scientists walk into a Bar, Rocket City Rednecks, and in Tesla’s Death Ray: A Murder Declassified on Discovery Channel. Cameron’s on-camera work as a Tesla Historian, and his off-camera coil building experience has gained him acclaim as both a Tesla and high-voltage expert. His website, Tesla Universe, is considered one of the foremost resources on all things Tesla.
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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.
Call for Makers – Now Open
The Application for Makers to participate in the first annual Pensacola Mini Maker Faire is now open. We are recruiting for exhibitors, demonstrations/DIY projects, hands on kids activities, performers, art booths, food trucks and more. There is no fee to participate unless you are a commercial maker who is selling products. Standard exhibit spaces are 6′ table or a 10×10 booth. Please complete the application to be considered – you may save and return to the application as required. Deadline is September 15.
Dates announced for first annual Pensacola Mini Maker Faire
UWF Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering is happy to announce the first annual Pensacola Mini Maker Faire will be held on November 16, 2019. The Faire is a one-day, all ages event. Free to the public with registration. The Maker Faire will showcase 75+ maker exhibits, Great Minds Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, and signature events to include Tesla Coils, Baja Cars, 75+ exhibitors, a Kinetic Bike Parade and more.