Palatine Mini Maker Faire at Quest Academy, May 21
The Maker Faire is coming to Palatine! The Palatine Mini Maker Faire is scheduled from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 21, on the campus of Quest Academy in Palatine. The Palatine Mini Maker Faire takes after its enormous parent event, Maker Faire. The Palatine Mini Maker Faire will be a smaller, community-focused event, but will follow the Maker Faire model of celebrating do-it-yourself creativity and tinkering.
"Make, create, craft, recycle, build, think, play, and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science, and technology."
Featuring both established and emerging local "makers," the Palatine Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration giving opportunities to makers, inventors, artists and tinkerers from Chicago, Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and all over the Midwest the chance to share their creativity with the Illinois community. Come to a Maker Faire to explore your own creativity, and be exposed to some of the most creative people in Illinois!
Makers at the Palatine Mini Maker Faire include: GoDroneX, Wildcat Makers, Art Bots, Chi Bots, Toool Chicago, Workshop 88, Virtual Reality, Minecraft, Trossen Robotics, and Knights of Tech.
BIG NEWS! Quest Academy's West Campus is being transformed into an amazing drone obstacle course, courtesy of Godronex! So come to Palatine Mini Maker Faire 2016 to the Maker Showroom- and check out the amazing Drone racing taking place across the parking lot! It's going to be an exciting day of amazing tech, learning, and fun! For more info, read on!
Big thanks to Illinois Computing Educators, Center for Talent Development (CTD) at Northwestern University, and the Village of Palatine for their great support!
For informaiton, https://makerfairepalatine.com/2016/05/12/big-news-godronex-is-coming-to-maker-faire
The Palatine Mini Maker Faire is fortunate to have Quest Academy as its host. Quest Academy is a leader in STEAM education, Quest Academy works to create opportunities of innovation for students of all ages for the entire Chicago area community. Lead organizer, Daniel Rezac, is the director of Academic Technology at Quest. In this role, he oversees Quest's STEAM program, growing and developing young leaders of engineering and creativity. Quest Academy is one of Chicago's premiere elementary education institutions. Quest Academy is a Preschool-8 private school known throughout the area for their gifted & talented programs. We thank our supporters: The Village of Palatine, Illinois Computing Educator (ICE), Center for Talent Development (CTD), and Make: Makezine.
Maker Faire began in 2005 in San Mateo, California, by the people behind MAKE and CRAFT magazines. Maker Faire has also appeared in Austin, Detroit, and soon New York City. Mini Maker Faires have started to sprout up around the United States, including events in Ann Arbor, Sebastopol, Aspen, Kansas City, and Boston.
Follow the development of the Palatine Mini Maker Faire on Twitter http://twitter.com/palatinemakers, as well as on its facebook fan page.
For informaiton, contact: Sharon Rockhill at Sharon.rockhill@questacademy.org or Dan Rezac
at Daniel.rezac@questacademy.org or (847) 202-8035
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