Category Archives: Young Makers

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

IMG_0689To celebrate  the New Year, we’ve gone live a day early with our Maker application!

So have at it! Get your Make on!  Wow us with your incredible ingenuity and creativity!

Set our collective minds afire with your amazing DIY inventiveness, and let’s show the world how absolutely amazing Tampa Bay is – not just for our magnificent weather, views,  and recreational opportunities – but for our unstoppable creative, entrepreneurial and inventive productivity, energy and intellect.

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Exhibits that are interactive or highlight the process of making things are especially desired. Here’s the process… 

ENTRIES

The first step to participating in our Maker Faire is to submit an entry that tells us about yourself and your project. Entries can be submitted by individuals or groups like hobbyist clubs and schools. You can apply as a Maker, Commercial Maker (individual makers primarily selling —$50 booth fee), Workshop or Presentation, or Performer.  The application asks you to to provide a short description of what you make and what you will actually bring to Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire. Photos, links and videos of exhibit  ideas are very helpful. The more we can see and learn about your exhibit, the better your chances of getting Maker space at the Faire.

 Here are just some of the things that we’re looking for:

  • Robotics
  • Kinetic & Installation Art
  • Music Performance
  • Hacks of Any Sort
  • Homesteader Projects
  • Workshops and Speakers
  • 3D Printers & Digital Fabrication
  • Textile Arts and Crafts
  • Student Projects
  • Rockets and RC Toys
  • Sustainability
  • Green Tech
  • Radios, Vintage Computers and Game Systems
  • Electronics
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Biology/Biotech and Chemistry Projects
  • Puppets
  • Kites
  • Bicycles and Human-Powered Machines
  • Shelter (Tents, Domes, etc.)
  • Unusual Tools or Machines
  • How to Fix Things or Take them Apart (Vacuums, Clocks, Washing Machines, etc.)
  • Food and Beverage vendors please write info@ebmakerfaire.com for more information.

Maker Exhibit: Our standard setup for a Maker exhibit is a 10′x10′ space.  If you need more space for your exhibit or project, please let us know. Use this space to display your work and/or demonstrate how you make something.

If you have any questions about participating in Maker Faire, please contact us by email: info@learningis4everyone.org

OTHER WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

Exhibitors and Sponsors: We welcome exhibitors and sponsors at our Mini Maker Faire. For more information about becoming an exhibitor or sponsor, please check out our Sponsor page or contact us at info@Learningis4everyone.org

 Volunteer: For information about volunteering at East Bay Mini Maker Faire, please email us at the above address.

We look forward to seeing you at Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire 2013!

 

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Are You Ready?

Posted on December 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

We are!  Maker applications and ticket sales go live January 2, 2013!  Click here to see what we’re looking for in Maker applications, for a head start on your application.   We’re deeply grateful to our event partners, The Concourse, Pasco County Libraries and Learning is for Everyone, and to our fantastic event planning team who will be working behind the scenes to do everything possible to help Make Your Day, at Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire 2013

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11 Year Old Florida Inventor’s Pezo Pal Wins Creative Child Magazine’s Toy of the Year Award

Posted on December 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

William GeorgesThe Sun Sentinel reported recently on young inventor, William Georges, an 11 year old who’s toy invention just won Creative Child Magazine’s Toy of the Year Award.  According to  his family, the Sentinel reports, when  Georges was just 6 years old he stuck his mother’s MP3 player through a hole in his old Teddy bear and said, “I just invented my first toy, Mom.”

Things have progressed considerably since then, with the now incorporated Pezo Pal’s first shipment of 2,000 bears arriving from China last month,  preloaded with 24 hours of songs, stories and lessons for kids 3 and older.

“I love to design real things that are useful for people,” Georges says on the Pezo Pal website.

“Pezo” means “play” in Greek,  which George’s speaks in addition to English.  The bears are customizable, allowing kids to “build their Pals anyway they want by downloading the coolest music or adding MP3 audio files anytime! My mission was to invent a toy that allows children to express themselves!”

“Children are better at making toys than adults,”  Georges told the Sentinel. Point taken.

 

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10 Yr. Old Tarpon Springs Inventor Win’s Nickelodeon’s “Figure it Out”

Posted on August 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

10 year old Alanna Meyers, of Tarpon Springs,  the inventor of the “Pain Free Bandage Remover”  was recently awarded the grand prize on Nickelodeon’s Game Show, “Figure It Out”, after stumping the show’s celebrity judges about her invention.

A fifth grader at Safety Harbor Montessori Academy in Clearwater,  Alanna’s Pain Free Bandage Remover was inspired by her long time dislike of the bandage removal process.  At the grand old age of 8, she decided that enough was enough, and experimented with several different combinations of safe, organic ingredients until she hit upon the perfect formula.  Her focus group was her then 2nd grade classroom, where kids and parents alike were immediately sold.

Since then, her product has been featured on “The Doctors”, “Rachael Ray” and several local news programs.  Alanna has applied for a patent trademark hopes to go into full production soon, marketing to childrens hospitals, pharmacies, health food and natural food stores, assisted living and nursing homes, with plans to donate 1% of all sales to the Arts for children.

Way to go, Alanna!

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Watch LI4E Makerspace Team in Red Bull Creation Live, July 19, at 9pm

Posted on July 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Watch the LI4E Makerspace team live, starting tonight, July 19, at 9pm, as they embark on the 72 hour Red Bull Creation Build-a-Thon!

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LI4E Makerspace Team Earns Spot in Red Bull Creation 2012 Finals!

Posted on July 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

Planning out the Red Bull Creation entry

They did it! Learning is for Everyone’s LI4E Makerspace Project team will be representing Tampa Bay,  Florida and Learning is for Everyone as a finalist in the 2012 Red Bull Creation Contest. Provided only with an arduino open source microcontroller – called a Bullduino, in Red Bull’s honor – teams from around the country put together a device of their choosing to try to impress judges with their creativity and engineering skills.

That was easy!

The LI4E Makerspace team created a Rube Goldberg-esque Red Bull Wake-Up Call alarm clock, and entered a video of their contraption into the competition on July 3. The clock, in their words, is “an over-engineered beauty .. ” Apparently Red Bull agreed!

The Red Bull launcher

Red Bull Creation judges selected the LI4E Makerspace team and 11 other teams from around the country as finalists, who will now compete in a 72 themed build that kicks off July 19. After a public voting period, top scoring teams get to take their creations the World Maker Faire 2012 in New York, in September. Besides getting to showcase their creations, Red Bull Creation finalists will be vying for a top prize of $10,000.

LI4E Makerspace and Team Duct Tape members, with mentor Paul Markun, of Tampa Technik.

The LI4E Makerspace Project is an effort by Learning is for Everyone (LI4E) to bring community makerspaces to Tampa Bay. The LI4E Makerspace team is an intergenerational, multi-talented crew of youth and adults, who are students, writers, artists, programmers, engineers, craftspeople and all-purpose tinkerers – a cross section of the community that would value and use a makerspace. Many of the team members are also members of LI4E’s award winning FIRST Tech Challenge team, Team Duct Tape, recently returned from competing in the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis, MO.

LI4E’s motto is “No Limits!” and the Red Bull Creation team exemplifies that no-holds-barred creativity in all they do. More information about the LI4E Makerspace team can be found here .

Congratulations, LI4E Makerspace Team!  We’ll be following closely next week,and fully expect to see one or both of their creations at Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire 2012!

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We Make, Therefore We Are!

Posted on July 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

Enjoy this fun look at Learning is for Everyone’s Makerspace Project Red Bull Creation 2012 entry! Team members hailed from LI4E’s FTC Team Duct Tape , and put their collective creativity to the test to develop the massive Rube Goldberg-like device in just three days!

Here’s the team’s description of their creation:

This over-engineered beauty is the Red Bull Wake-Up-Call alarm clock. Since anything worth doing is worth over-doing, this Bullduino-driven morning persuader is configured out a variety of repurposed items, including:

  • a 60 year old Seth Thomas travel clock
  • a Yamaha stage piano with speaker and woofer
  • an NXT brick
  • a couple of LEGO motors
  • a steel trap triggered by a falling anvil
  • and lots of duct tape!
They Make, therefore they Are – awesome!

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Caine’s Arcade

Posted on June 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Young Makers are born with imagination and a sense of fun and creativity. But they also need the encouragement and support of family and community, to not only celebrate what they make, but to keep their Maker Spirit alive and thriving!

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Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire Video

Posted on May 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

Check out the great little video our student videographer, Ryder, made at this year’s Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire!

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Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire Joining in Orlando Mini Maker Faire!

Posted on April 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

We had so much fun at our Faire we want to do it again! So we’re heading over to the Orlando Mini Maker Faire on May 26 to play some more!

At least a couple of our TBMMF friends will be there –  CyberCraft Robots and Makerspace Tampa Bay  - and quite possibly a couple of others. Because if there’s anything more fun than a Maker Faire , it’s TWO Maker Faires!

We’ll be there as part of  Learning is for Everyone’s  Maker booth, with award winning FIRST Tech Challenge Team Duct Tape, the NetBot and some fun hands on photography projects for OMMF guests to enjoy.

Go check out the website and get your OMMF tickets soon!

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