Maker Fest

Description

Join the Traverse Area District Library and our regional friends for this annual celebration of STEAM and Making in our community. This year's FREE event features 20+ exhibitors spread out on the grounds of the Grand Traverse Civic Center (pavilion and amphitheatre areas) with hands-on learning and activities ranging from crafts to coding to art to engineering to music to animals and plants and much more.

We'll even feature a Littles MakerFest, where children ages 2 - 6 and their families can explore the building blocks of STEM with educators from various early learning organizations (denoted below with a *). Monty the mascot for the TC Pit Spitters will join us for a fun "reading" at 10:30 in the Little Makers area.

Organizations exhibiting at this year's MakerFest include:

- 4-H / MSU Extension
- Art and Connection (via the Reid Family Foundation)
- Challenge Island Northwest Michigan
- Cherryland Amatuer Radio
- Cherryland Ghostbusters
- The Dennos Museum
- Discovery Center & Pier
- Grand Traverse Area Children's Garden
- Grand Traverse Conservation District
- *The Great Lakes Children's Museum
- Inland Seas Education Association
- Mission Blues
- MiSTEM Network
- Newton's Road
- TADL - East Bay
- TADL - Sight & Sound
- TADL - Tech Center
- TADL - Teen
- *TADL - Youth
- *Traverse City Cooperative Preschool
- Young Eagles (Traverse City Airport)

Stop by to see new additions to our participating organizations. A big "thank you" goes out to Oryana Food Co-op as well for providing food for our exhibitors at this year's event!