Maker Minutes 10/15/2020 – Annapolis Makerspace

10/2 to 11/1 – MD Stem Festival

Sat 10/17 – Fungus Amongus: Intro to Mushroom Identification at Beverly Triton Nature Park

https://www.aacounty.org/news-and-events/events/event/10/17/2020/fungus-amoungus-intro-to-mushroom-identification

Sat 10/17 – Check out Fall Mini Sessions at Wildberry Farms with Megan Evans Photography and Sweet Annie’s Flower Truck.

https://www.wildberryfarmmarket.com/farm-events

Mon 10/19 – STEAM Fair 2020 goes virtual! – Take the STEAM Fair home, this year. Check out their website for links to videos, project instructions and a complete supply list.

https://www.chesapeakefamily.com/steam-fair-2020-monday/

Art Farm – Annapolis

Sat 10/17 – Outdoor Mini Art + Improv Camp for ages 7-10 – Give yourself a break and drop the kids off every other Saturday this fall for a 3 hour mini art camp for kids. This Saturday the kids will be doing art and improv with Reflex Improv’s Dan Brown!

https://www.facebook.com/events/743378416226954/

Mon 10/19 – begins 8 week Mixed Media Sculpture for ages 10-15

https://www.facebook.com/events/286492869322369/

Tues 10/20 – Graphic Design Class – 8 week course running every Tuesday through November 10th. Students will learn the fundamentals of design from color theory to font choices to branding.

https://www.artfarmannapolis.com/kids

https://www.facebook.com/events/311278246986203/

Tues 10/20, Fri 10/15 – Virtual: Block Printing with Anita Hagan

https://www.facebook.com/events/281127319852553/

Tues 10/20 – 4 week Virtual Beginner Drawing Class continues

https://www.facebook.com/events/762409424524425/

Wed 10/21 – begins 4 week Mixed Media City Project for ages 7-9

https://www.facebook.com/events/340986027218375/

Running every Wednesday through Nov 11th, Virtual Pencil, Charcoal and Watercolor with Cat Dolch, for ages 10-15. Continues… https://www.hisawyer.com/artfarm-annapolis/schedules/activity-set/162994-virtual-pencil-charcoal-watercolor-with-cat-dolch?source=semester

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park – Ellicott City

Tomorrow 10/16 – Look Up, What do you see? – With the new moon and no moonlight, it’s a great time to get out and take a look at the night sky.

https://www.facebook.com/events/698875387358925/

Sat 10/17 – Nature Journaling – Learn to observe nature through drawing and writing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334073454649440/

Sat 10/17 – Cooking in the Cabin – Explore Early American cooking with the park’s culinary historians, using a wood burning hearth and bake oven and more.

https://www.facebook.com/events/305506900566635/

AACPL

…has a bunch of programs going on online if you head over to aacpl.net and click on Watch Online – Virtual Programming

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/upcoming?library_branch%5B346%5D=346&submit=Apply&form_id=lc_calendar_upcoming_form

… including Facebook Live Storytimes (including bilingual storytimes) every weekday as well as a children’s book discussion… including a Pumpkin Palooza STEM Virtual Story Time and a Unity Day Kindness Story Time

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/babies-bloom-story-time-hosted-deale-library-2

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-babies-bloom-43

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-preschool-storytime-44

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-preschool-storytime-45

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-bilingual-storytime-27

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/pumpkin-palooza-stem-virtual-storytime

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/facebook-live-preschool-storytime-46

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/deale-library-presents-unity-day-kindness-storytime

Tomorrow 10/16 – NASA Robotic Servicing – NASA engineers and scientists offer a presentation of how robots will help maintain things in space including satellites and spacecraft.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/nasa-robotic-servicing

Sat 10/17 – Design Challenge – With a design challenge selected, you’ll have 10 minutes to create something while listening to music or a story. At the end, everyone shares their creation with the group. Use your own random supplies or pick up a Design Challenge Kit from the Eastport Annapolis Neck Library.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/design-challenge

Tues 10/20 – Exploring the Outdoors: From Mountains to Sea: Maryland’s Natural Areas, presenting 31 wild and wonderful natural areas in Maryland that are easy to explore.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/exploring-outdoors-mountains-sea-marylands-natural-areas

Tues 10/20 – O’Malley Senior Center Book Club – This month’s theme is to read a book by a hispanic author and come ready to share.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/omalley-senior-center-book-club-odenton-library-0

.. Tues 10/20 – Virtual Anime and Manga Club – Share your love of Japanese animation and comics with fellow otaku.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/virtual-anime-and-manga-club-1

Tues 10/20 – Intro to eLearning Resources

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/intro-elearning-resources-0

Tues 10/20 – STEM @ Home – Celebrate the MD STEM Festival alongside the Glen Burnie Library staff who will demonstrate some science projects that you can do at home!

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/stem-home-1

Wed 10/21 – Intro the Library eBooks and Streaming, with plenty of things to keep you occupied and entertained.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/intro-library-ebooks-and-streaming-25

… also the Guys Book Club: with “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/guys-book-club-all-light-we-cannot-see-anthony-doerr-0

There’s also plenty of other things going on at the library… like check out KPop Music Bingo, Understanding theLGBTQIA+ Community, Frederick Reads with Wes Moore, The City of Laurel is 150!, another run of The Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism, Mindfulness Through Yoga and a Collaborative Poetry Club.

Unallocated Space – Severn

UAS hasn’t been having any in-person classes but they’re still doing some things virtually. On Thursday nights, they’ve been doing an online Virtual Happy Hour

https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/htgkvrybcnbtb/

Fri 10/16 – Virtual Amateur Radio Night

https://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/vwgvxrybcnbvb/

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues – 10/20 – Monthly CAD/CAM and CNC with Fusion 360 3D design workshop online

https://www.meetup.com/Annapolis-Makerspace/events/vngcvrybcnbbc/