Check out what’s happening with Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire
The MAKESHOP’s friends over at Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire have been busy! The Faire just announced the Round I Accepted Makers for this year’s Faire (including familiar faces from the MAKESHOP Microgrants!). The Call for Makers is still open until August 15th. And today, they posted all the sponsorship info to get involved in helping to “make” this year’s mini…
Community Highlight: Free Event!
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse Reuse-a-Palooza Saturday July 21 from 11:00AM-3:00PM Allegheny Library, 1230 Federal Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212 Free! PCCR’s Reuse-a-Palooza is a hands-on creative activity for participants of all ages, perfect for any public event. Come (re)create with us! The Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse’s Reuse-a-Palooza is a fun, educational, and inspiring event for all ages, perfect for large public…
Making MAKESHOP™
Join us and professionals from museums across the country to learn about the design, development and practice of MAKESHOP™ at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Discuss practical ways to integrate authentic and supportive making experiences for children and families into your museum. Meet and mingle with our city’s dynamic maker community, and experience Pittsburgh’s annual Mini Maker Faire! We will explore…
Playtesting Grant Opportunity
Spark and The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh are offering a Playtesting Grant Program for anyone seeking to benefit from the design, engagement, research, evaluation, and resources of MAKESHOP at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Playtesting aims to expose the level of fun and enjoyment that players get out of a certain game, exercise, or project. What, how, who? Anything can be playtested, honestly. Testing can be conducted over a…
Building a Xylophone
No one told me to build a Xylophone. I didn’t know how to build a Xylophone either. I tried anyways. It is not just the visitors who get to make things in the MAKESHOP. It took a lot of thinking, a lot of scrap wood and a lot of mistakes, but I still produced something. It makes noise, which is…
Community Highlight: Free Workshops!
Constructing Identity: A series of workshops in costume making Interested in costume making and performance art? Want to be in a fashion show? Now is your chance… Sign up now to participate in a summer-long series of FREE workshops at the Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Center with local artist Scott Andrew. Youth ages 13-17 are invited to participate in workshops…
Modern Art
Who knew that a bunch of motors attached to some junk could create such beautiful art? Well, apparently it does… We really like to make things vibrate, shake and spin by attaching motors and simple circuits to recycled materials. We decided to go a step further by adding a marker to discover what patterns our shopbots make. The result was…
Community Highlight: Planet Parade
What is it like to be Jupiter or Mars? What is it like to be a planet that only has a number for a name? Only your vision creates the cosmos as you design your own Extrasolar planet. Join Assemble to make a Planet Parade so that together we re-imagine the stars! We will learn about both living and nonliving…