Let the Royal Trumpets Blast with Fire!

Premiering at the faire this year will be The Royal Trumpets, one of Rochester’s first local kinetic fire sculptures, will be making its first hometown appearances. These trumpets stand at 17 feet tall when fully upright, and can blast out a 10-foot fireball into the air!

 

We met them back at the New York Maker Faire in September and we were beyond pumped to learn that they’re from Rochester.

 

Learn more about them at https://rochester.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/370/

 

Be sure to buy your tickets ahead of time for the 2018 Maker Faire Rochester at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-faire-rochester-2018-tickets-47119905907?aff=eac2.

 

Student STEAM Fest 2018

School will be in session very soon across New York! With students back in classrooms next week, we all need to consider how to help foster that creative spark in our youth. With that in mind, we are excited to announce Maker Faire Rochester’s Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest in partnership with NYSCATE.

 

What is the Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest? It’s a special sneak peek at Maker Faire Rochester held on Friday, November 16th, from 9 AM to 2:30 PM. We are opening this day to school and (home school groups) for students in 3rd to 8th grade.

 

This day will be organized to allow students and their teachers the opportunity to see and engage in making activities across multiple categories including:
  • Robots and Drones
  • Think, Design, Create (Manufacturing)
  • Sustainability
  • The Arts; Hands on Science (Applied Sciences)
  • Culinary/Agriculture
  • Coding and Things that Go Beep (Micro controllers, Mini Computers, and Coding)
  • DIY (jewelry, home repair/construction, and more)
If you are a maker, the Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest is a great way to help share your knowledge and passion to inspire the next generation of makers. Please consider sharing your gifts and answering the Call for Makers.

 

If you are a business interested in sponsoring a hands on activity or covering the cost for a class to attend, check out our Sponsorship Packet.

 

If you are a parent, grandparent, guardian, or involved with local schools in any manner, please share our Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest posters (Poster 1, Poster 2) and the Student STEAM Fest Registration Form with your local school.

 

We have a special performance that we are bringing in to ignite the curiosity of students. Jason Latimer world champion magician and curator of Impossible Science at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego California will be bringing his show live and in person! This is an opportunity for schools not to miss!

 

We hope that you’ll join us for this special one of a kind event!

Maker Faire Rochester is Back at The Great New York State Fair This Weekend!

The Maker Faire Rochester crew will be back at The Great New York State Fair in Syracuse on Saturday, August 25th and Sunday, August 26th. You’ll be able to find us in the S.T.E.A.M. Exhibit in the Science & Industry building.


At last year’s event, we brought our Big Face Boxes. This year, we’ll be bringing the Light Painting Photo Booth. Attendees will get to paint using lightsabers, LEDs, flashlights, and a few other fun light up projects we’re working on.


Judging from the layout, we’ll be joined by other awesome maker friends of ours including the Rochester Lego User Group, FIRST Team 1511 Rolling Thunder, and CNY Drones!


We’re personally pumped to see the new nightly Drone Light Show going on every night at the fair. Be sure to drop on by and say hi!


Maker Faire Rochester wants you! Call for Makers Open!

 The Call for Makers is now officially open for this year’s Maker Faire Rochester. This year’s faire will be taking place on Friday, November 16th & Saturday, November 17th, 2018 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, so save the date!

 

Now that we’re a featured faire and a two-day event, you can apply to be a Maker on our Friday Student STEAM Fest, Saturday at the Maker Faire, or for both days. As a heads up, we will be accepting makers for both days on a rolling basis, and the individual days in batches. This will hopefully make mapping easier so makers who attend both days don’t have to move their booths.

 

The Student STEAM Fest will be a sneak preview for students in 3rd through 8th grade. The day will run from 9:00 am – 2:30 pm. We do encourage makers to have hands-on activities or demos to show the attending students. To keep all activities accessible to all students, we will not be allowing any sales on this day. However, commercial makers that attend the Friday Student STEAM Fest to provide demonstrations and/or free hands-on activities for students will be eligible for a discount on Saturday’s Commercial Maker fee.

 

We hope to have load-in for the Student STEAM day take place on Thursday night and Friday morning (we’re still working out the final details). Load in for Saturday should be the same as previous years.

 

The call for makers can be found at: http://rochester.makerfaire.com/call-for-makers/

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at rochesterfaireinfo@gmail.com.

 

Big News! Maker Faire Rochester is No Longer “Mini”!

Mini No More!

That’s right, we’re no longer a Mini Maker Faire, but a full-fledged Featured Maker Faire! Maker Faire Rochester is coming back bigger and better than ever on Friday & Saturday, November 16th & 17th, 2018.

 

This year, we’re adding a Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest on the Friday leading into the faire. The Student S.T.E.A.M. Fest will give hundreds of students in 3rd through 8th grade a hands-on sneak preview of Saturday’s event.

 

We will also be hosting a regional summit on the Friday afternoon, and a reception for makers and sponsors that evening. More information on our afternoon and evening events will be published soon.

 

Our Call for Makers opens on Wednesday, May 16th, so stay tuned for our announcement! We’re excited about what this year will bring.

 

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Upcoming Events:

 

To kick off our new name, we will be at 2 events this Saturday with our light painting photobooth. Be sure to stop by, say hi, and try out our booth.

 

We would also like to wish everyone an early Happy Mother’s Day! Our moms were some of our first maker inspirations and we would like to thank them for always supporting us.

 

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about how to become a maker or anything about this year’s faire.
Keep on Making,
The Maker Faire Rochester Committee
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Our 5th Year in 2018!

Main Entrance at the Rochester Mini Maker Faire

As we move into our 5th year, we have some exciting news!  Stay tuned to our social media below for this exciting announcement tomorrow!

Upcoming Spring Maker Events

If you can’t wait until November for the next Rochester Mini Maker Faire, we recommend checking out our friends at these regional Maker events! Most of them are still accepting makers too.


We’ll be active this spring with hands-on activities, including our big face boxes, cardboard couches, and a new light painting photo booth that we’ve been working on. You can find us at not only some of the above events but all over Rochester:



Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about how to become a maker or anything about this year’s faire.

2017 Rochester Mini Maker Faire!

3,600 Attendees, 125+ Makers, and Tons of Making

Thank you all for being part of the 4th Annual Rochester Mini Maker Faire! Saturday was an was a tremendous success, far more than we could have imagined! We are beyond thrilled that everyone could make it out – all 3,600 of you (a new record for us)!

We had over 125 makers and more than half of them provided hands-on activities. We had over 80 volunteers, and we could not have done this without your help. Our generous, wonderful sponsors help make this huge event happen. A special thank you to our parent organization, NYSCATE, for continuing to support us and encouraging us to think big.

We would also like to thank Dhanya Asher for creating the above video from the faire, and our photographer, Derrick Stanton, whose photos we can’t wait to share with everyone soon.

 

We want your feedback!

While we are still recovering, we have heavily enjoyed all the feedback, photos, and compliments you have shared with us. If you can spare a minute, we’d appreciate you filling out this short, anonymous survey, in order for us to improve next year’s event: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RochesterMMF2017_attendee.

 

Thank our Sponsors

Be sure to thank all of our sponsors for supporting the faire. We could not hold the event without all of their continuous support. Our sponsors include:
Make, Rochester Institute of Technology, WXXI Kids, Wegmans, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC), home of the Empire State Development-designated Upstate Region Interactive Technologies Hub and partner organization ROC Game Dev, Rochester Broadway Theatre League, EMA Design Automation, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Makeway, Roc City Laser, Yelp, Mayday! Underground, MyDarndest, Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival, the Rochester Makerspace, and High Tech Rochester.

 

Keep in Touch!

If you have any photos from the faire, feel free to share them with us! We have already started to post our photos up on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We’ll probably have all of our photos posted within the next few days. If all goes as planned, we should also have a special video with footage from the event. You can find us at:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RochesterMiniMakerFaire
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rochmakerfaire
Instagram: https://instagram.com/rochesterminimakerfaire/

Heva Meta, a Fire Breathing Dragon, is Coming to Rochester!

Rochester, are you ready for a 30 foot long, 19 foot tall, fire breathing dragon?? Heavy Meta joins us this year at Rochester Riverside Convention Center on November 18th!

A beautiful, terrifying beast, Heavy Meta shoots huge fireballs from its tail and animatronic mouth!

Get your tickets in advance and don’t miss this amazing beast!
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Call for Makers Still Open!

Our Call for Makers is still open for the 4th Annual Rochester Mini Maker Faire! We’re hoping to beat our record of 130 makers that we set last year.

Some of the projects that we had last year included:

  • Arc + Flame Welding Simulator
  • A test of strength to win some fire with Hell Blazer, The Flaming Carnival Game
  • Learning to solder your first electronics project
  • Screen printing your own Rochester Mini Maker Faire poster to take home
  • Tearing apart old electronics and see how they worked
  • Wearing a 3D printed prosthetic with e-NABLE
  • Animating your first stop-motion film
  • Piloting a drone
  • Being inspired by kid Makers, including the Rosie’s Robots, a 9 year old roboticist
  • Playing video and board games developed right here in Rochester
  • Marveling at a theme park built with K’nex
  • Creating useful items out of old cassette tapes
  • Hearing live music from the Rochester Recorder Society
  • Mixing the future with the past with the Rochester Steampunk Society and the Enchanted City Steampunk Festival from Troy
  • Picking a lock with The Open Organization Of Lockpickers
  • Driving robots with local FIRST Robotics teams
  • Making and learning with makerspaces from around Rochester and beyond
  • Preparing for the wilderness by learning outdoor survival skills
  • Launching rockets through recreational plumbing
  • Fixing bikes
  • Lighting up with holographic projections and infinity mirrors in our dark room
  • Discovering a monthly electronic kit developed in Buffalo

 

Fire projects are allowed again this year and are highly encouraged! We will also be bringing back the Dark Room, along with a few new special areas.

 

We’re accepting applications through October 23rd and then through before the faire on a maker by maker basis.

 

Apply today at https://rochester.makerfaire.com/call-for-makers/.

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