Today, and the next few Thursdays - Girls Who Code Club at the Bowie Branch Library

12/8 - 4th Annual Women in STEAM Festival - UMBC - Be inspired by female professionals in the field of robotics, engineering, biology, architecture, computer science, graphic design, finance and many other STEM fields. With hands-on workshops, learn about exciting careers and hear inspirational stories from women in STEAM.

12/8 - South Bowie Library - Teen Coding with Unity - This TAG Labs workshop will teach you how to design 3D environments for gaming and virtual reality.

Holiday Happenings:

Now - 12/8 - Cylburn Arboretum Wreath Making

Today 12/6 - Sun/12/9 - MICA Art Market

Today 12/6 - 12/20 - Midnight Madness Annapolis

12/6 - Monument Lighting - Baltimore

Fris/Sats Tomorrow 12/7 - 12/22 - Illuminated London Town - Enjoy hot cider and roast some s’mores as you wander through Londontown’s historic area. Explore the gardens, illuminated with festival holiday lights and enjoy special performances each week.

Tomorrow 12/7 - Midnight Madness - Ellicott City

Sat 12/8 - Eastport Yacht Club's Lights Parade Saturday, December 8th, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, as boats suddenly appear out of the cold winter night illuminated with thousands of colored lights and crewed by jolly revelers. Families and friends gather at their favorite viewing spots along the waterfront to see this yearly spectacle and to celebrate the holiday season together. The Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade is one of Annapolis’ signature events and we invite you to join us as a participant in the parade or as a spectator cheering on the decorated boats and their crews.

Sat 12/8 - Rockville - Winterfest Bazaar at the Universities at Shady Grove - 60+ local vendors, food and alcohol samples, Santa and more!

Sat 12/8 - Silver Spring - Silver Spring Arts & Crafts Holiday Fair and Christmas Market

Lights on the Bay - 12/7 comcast and First Responders Night, 12/9 Liquified Creative’s Ugly Sweater Night

Art Farm - Annapolis

Now through 12/15 - Fearless girls Photography Group Exhibition - Maryland hall

Tonight 12/6 - Midnight Madness Market - While you’re downtown for Midnight Madness, don’t forget the Arts District and Art Farm! They’ll have Batch jam and jellies tastings, a snack table, Rose station and lots of great curated items for sale.

Tomorrow 12/7 - Friday Make It Night: Block Printing - Learn how to create your own custom pattern, crave a block and print onto brown paper gift bags. Trade and share stamps with other students to make different patterns and each student will get 5 bags to print on and you can take your stamp home to create your prints later.

Tues 12/11 - Kids Movie and Art Nights

AACPL

Tonight 12/6 - Odenton - Hour of Code

Tonight 12/6 - Maryland City at Russett - Storytime STEM for Preschoolers

Mon 12/10 - Linthicum - Maker Mondays

Tues 12/11 - Odenton STEAM Tuesdays as well as Kids Can Build later that day

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight 12/6 - Infosec night

Tomorrow 12/7 - Amateur Radio Night

Tues 12/11 - Electronics Fundamentals w/DC Circuits

Wed 12/12 - Lockpicking night

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Today/Tomorrow - Hour of Code continues

Today - Robotics Club Thursdays

Tomorrow Gamer Friday

Tues - Coder Kids Club and Cosplay Club night

Wed - YouTube Stars and Animators Club

Annapolis Makerspace

Signups are open for a Wood Burning class with Bonnie from Daydreams Factory on Sun 12/16 - Turn wood cigar boxes into works of art using pyrography! Only 8 spots are available, so head over to the event page, found on our website, and sign up today!

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11/24 - 12/31 - Miracle on 34th Street Hampden/Baltimore - An annual tradition! Everyone on the street go all out for holidays and it’s quite a spectacle.

11/23 - Jan 1 - Winter Festival of Lights - Watkins Park - Upper Marlboro, drive-through holiday light show featuring a 54ft musical tree

Through Jan 1 - Lights on the Bay benefiting the AACo SPCA - Various themed nights including tomorrow Squisito Night, Sat 12/1 - Spoiled rotten Dogs Night and Sun 12/2 - Grauls Night

Sat, Fris-Sats 12/1 - 12/22 - Holiday Candlelight Stroll in Annapolis - Stroll through Annapolis with a colonial guide and learn about holiday traditions. Includes tour of the historic Hammond Harwood House.

Sun 12/2 - Noon to 5pm - 4th Annual Chocolate Binge Festival - local chocolate vendors. Family friendly entertainment, chocolate, hot cocoa with local police officers, holiday shopping at the galleries and shops in the Annapolis Arts District (Art Farm) and the lighting of the West Street Holiday Light Canopy

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tomorrow 11/30 - Friday Make It Night: Woven Mini Holiday Tapestry - ArtFarm and Great Blue Fiber - you’ll create your own unique mini weaving which will glitter on your tree! Jenny from Great Blue Fiber will teach you to weave with fibers, ribbons and dazzling accoutrements on a frame loom!

Sun 12/2 - Silk Scarf Marbling during Chocolate Binge Festival - Stop in and marble a silk scarf or two.. Great gifts for the holidays! Each scarf will take about 15-20 minutes and you can leave it to dry while you walk around the festival. First come first served!

AACPL

Mon 12/3 - Deale - Hour of Code - Technology is great, but creating the programs that make it work.. Even better! Learn computer coding through fun games and challenges, for elementary and middle school students.

Wed 12/5 - Crofton - Holiday 3D Print Design - Learn how to use Cookie Caster, a free online program, to create our own original cookie cutter! Cookie cutters will be printed for you and available for pickup within 1 week.

Also… Thu 12/29 - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - STEM Challenge Thursdays

Mon 12/3 - Glen Burnie - Maker Mondays

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sat 12/1 - Hackathon! - 2pm Join Unallocated Space for 24 hours of building and coding! No specific theme for this hackathon, just hang out and work on a project you’ve been meaning to make time for or coming up with something on the spot. Half the fun is seeing what people come up with!

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Tonight - Robotics Club

Tomorrow - Friday Night Gamer Club

Mon - Hour of Code 2018 - Computer Science Education Week - 3rd-9th

Tuesday Night Coder Kids Club

Annapolis Makerspace

Tuesday - Autodesk Fusion 360 3D design workshop w/Russ

Mondays are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - electronics night

Going on now.. through Jan 1 - Lights on the Bay at Sandy Point, benefiting the AACo SPCA. - This week, on Saturday they have Annapolis Cars Night and Sunday is Cape Ace Hardware night

Fri - 11/23 - Great Frogs Winery in Annapolis - Maker’s Market - Join them for a special day full of food, wine, music and shopping. Event features live music from Ampersand String Band as well as the Dan Haas Band. Makers attending are Tin Lizzy, Mango and Main, Wild Raven, Kim Hovell, Wine Diva, Krafted With Love, Refined Woodworking and Mad Flava. Don’t miss their 2nd annual makers market!

Friday and Saturday - 11/23-11/24 - American Visionary Arts Museum - Baltimore - Bazzart Holiday Art Market - AVAM’s annual holiday art market returns! Browse original creations by over 40 region artists and craftspeople.

Sun - 11/25 - downtown Annapolis - Grand Illumination - There will be dancing and carols by local school groups, Santa will be there to help light the tree around 6:30 and the Jaycees will be serving hot chocolate and candy canes and have ornaments for children to decorate. The Jaycees will also be accepting donations of unwrapped toys and non-perishable food items for their annual Angel Tree program, which helps local families in need during the holiday season.

Wed - 11/28 - Prince George’s Publick Playhouse - Wytold: The Science of Sound. Electric cellist and composer, Wytold, blends classical techniques and live looping to create interactive musical adventures for grades 3- 8.

Sat - Small Business Saturday and many local retailers are celebrating including..

Third Eye Comics Small Business Saturday

Art Farm Small Business Saturday

Art Farm - Annapolis

Wed - 11/28 - Holiday Photography Workshop

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sun 11/25 - Old Fashioned Glazed Christmas Trees

Annapolis Makerspace

Tuesday - 11/27 - Monthly general meeting and open house. We will be voting on new board members, so members interested in voting should come out out, but the shop is also open to anyone who wants to come by and check things out.

Mondays are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - Electronics night

Sat 11/17 - Homestead Gardens - Davidsonville - Grand Illumination - Witness the lighting of over 200,000 Christmas lights illuminating at once as you listen to live carolers! There will be model trains, warm drinks and festivities galore. With special guest, AACo Exec-elect Steurart Pittman. Santa will arrive shortly after 6pm and will see children until 9pm.

Sun 11/18 - Sagamore Spirit - Baltimore - Create Your Own Rocks Glasses - In honor of Maryland Spirits Month, tour the distillery, have a tasting, join McFadden Art Glass glass blowing crew to create your own rocks glass.

Starting tomorrow 11/16 - all weekend - Gaithersburg - Sugarloaf Crafts Festival - Holiday edition - Over 350 master craft designers and artisans selling their handmade creations all weekend.

This weekend 11/17-11/18 - Baltimore - Christmas village preview weekend - West Shore Park transforms into a traditional indoor/outdoor German Christmas Market with great gifts and food.

Now through 12/30 - Columbia - Symphony of Lights

Sat 11/17 - Jan 1st - Sandy Point - Lights on the Bay - Brought to us by The SPCA of AACo

.. including tonight 11/15 - 5-10pm - Lights and Leashes, ditch the car and see the lights at your own pace.

Tomorrow 11/16 - Annapolis Striders - Dashing through the Show 5k and Fun Run

Saturday 11/17 - Opening Night

Sun 11/18 - BrightKey Night

Now through 1/1 - Annmarie Sculpture Garden - Annual Ornament Show & Sale - Unique and affordable ornaments by regional artists are hung on trees displayed in the main gallery of the artist building. In it’s 11th year, it’s worth checking out, especially if it’s on one of the days that coincide with their Garden of Lights and other holiday events.

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tomorrow 11/16 - Friday Make It Night: Hand Lettering - Gift Tags - Wasu Thompson teaches the art of using a brush pen to create beautiful hand-lettered items. Learn how to use the brush pen, with different strokes, to create the letters and how to incorporate watercolor into your design as well as blend ink colors. No experience required.

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park - Ellicott City

Sat 11/17 - Preparing Holiday Feasts in the Banneker Era - Historical interpreters demonstrate Federal Period, earthen oven baking, focusing on the foods of Benjamin Banneker’s time.

AACPL

Tomorrow 11/16 - Odenton - Storytime with a Scientist - Stories, songs, a hands on experiment with their guest scientist.

Sat 11/17 - Dino-vember Excavation - Severn - Elementary school students become jr paleontologists to help excavate some dinosaurs and fossils on an archeology dig! Call to register

Mon 11/19 - Annapolis Library at Monarch Academy - Turkey Gala - Create your own turkey or two and then see how high you can stack the turkeys! Create a bridge out of various materials to help the turkeys get to the other side of the road.

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sat 11/17 - Cold Connections and Rivets - Students will learn riveting with wire and tube and make a project of their choice using these skills.. Rings, pendants, cuffs, beads or belt buckles.

Annapolis Makerspace

Sun 11/18 - John and Bonnie Lindner from Sykesville, who run the Etsy store, Daydreams Factory, will be at Annapolis Makerspace to teach us a little bit about wood lathe basics and safety.

Mondays are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - electronics night

Tomorrow 11/9 - College Park Aviation Museum - Proof: Maryland Spirits Month Signature Event

Enjoy the inaugural event celebrating Maryland Spirits Month. The spirited evening showcases Maryland’s distillers full of local liquor and libations, a cocktail competition and live music.

Sat 11/10 - MD Stem Festival Walking Parade - AACC - Celebrate STEM at AACC’s campus in Arnold. Prizes given for best sign/poster and creative costumes based on STEM.

Sat 11/10 - Wilde Lake High School - Columbia - MD Stem Festival and the Howard County NAACP Chapter present STEM of Many Colors - STEM is for everyone. Come see Minority STEM professionals and educators present a wide range of STEM topics. Participating organizations including JHU Applied Physics Lab, National Institute of Standards, NSA, Black Girls Code and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

MD Stem Festival - Final days of the MD STEM Fest and there’s still tons of events around the area including Howard Astronomical League’s Star Party, MD Cybersecurity Career & Education Fair, Making invisible ink with lemon juice, nutrition, water purification, vibrobots and more

Sun 11/11 - STEAMuseum Day - Riversdale House Museum - Adding Art to the Maryland STEM Fest, families are invited to learn about STEAM 19th century style with hands on activities throughout the house. Crafts, scavenger hunt, historical cooking demos and more!

This weekend Sat/Sun 11/10-11/11 - Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship - Maryland Alpaca & Fleece Festival - The best fall fiber festival on the east coast! A great fall festival with live animal and fiber demos. Admission is free.

Now through 11/24 - Columbia Arts Center - Art of Abstraction - Some of the greatest art comes from those working outside the box. Take a look at abstract art that uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create compositions that depart from reality.

Mon - 11/5-11/29 - Montpelier Mansion - Laurel - Beyond Needleart Exhibit and craft show - The rooms of Montpelier will be filled with fiber artwork of all kinds, from quilting to felting to cross-stitch. While you’re there, you can browse for unique holiday gifts in the Artist’s Boutique, featuring handcrafted gifts and ornaments by local artists.

Walters Art Gallery - Now through Jan 6 - Japanese Woodblock Prints - The art of Collaboration

Showcasing more than 40 lively prints dating from the 17th through 19ths centuries

Art Farm - Annapolis

Today 11/8 - Fearless Girls Photography Group Exhibition MD Hall

Tomorrow/Fri 11/9 - Kids Fall Art Show

Wed 11/14 - Essential Oils Class

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tomorrow/Fri - 11/9 - Kids Night Out w/Nightmare Before Christmas

Tues 11/13 - Preschool book club - Turkey Trouble

Wed 11/14 - Glass Fusing - Checkered Cheese boards

AACPL

Sat 11/10 - Glen Burnie - STEM Day - Hands on STEM demonstrations and projects from agencies all throughout the county. It’s a mini STEM fair that takes up the whole library!

Wed 11/14 - AACC dining hall - AACC Science Night

Tonight 11/8 - Discoveries: The Library at the Mall - Teen Tech Cafe

Tonight 11/8 - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - STEM Challenge Tuesdays

Tue 11/13 - Odenton - STEM Tuesday

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sat 11/10 - BrewCon - UAS is hosting it’s first Brewcon, a day of talks and tastings from homebrewers and fermentation enthusiasts in our community. Topics include homebrew, wine making, fermentation, mixology, beverage crafting and more.

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sat 11/10 - Basic Faceting - Learn to cut your own gemstones.. Each student will learn how to cut a round gem from synthetic garnet, including pre-forming, dopping, cutting and polishing. The class will be two sessions with the first one involving preforming the stone and cutting the pavilion or bottom of the stone and preparing it for the cutting, which will be done in the second session.

Annapolis Makerspace

Sun 11/11 - Come on out to our Open House and Fall Party f/needlefelting class, VR demos, refreshments and check out Annapolis Makerspace while you’re there.

Sat 11/3 - National Electronics Museum - Linthicum - Quarterly workshop f/Theramin Electronics Workshop followed by their Electronica Music Fest! - A day of knob twisting, pitch bending, sound shaping and visual exploration or music.

Sat 11/3 - Baltimore Museum of Industry - BMI STEM Festival - Afternoon full of hands-on activities as part of the MD STEM Festival

Mon 11/5 - Blue Collar STEM Conference at the Baltimore Museum of Industry - An all day conference discussing the relation and importance of STEM outside of traditional four-year college paths, including manufacturing, health care, construction, government, education, labor and military.

Sun 11/4 - Wow Learning Center - Glen Burnie - Science of the Groove at 11am followed by Family Tech Lab at 12:30pm as part of the Maryland STEM Festival

MD STEM Festival - 500+ events all around MD, from makerspaces to libraries to schools, all kinds of groups are participating. Check the MD STEM Festival website for information about events in your area! - Over 50 events at locations just around AA, Calvert and PG Co! .. involving model rockets, drones, Legos, learning to solder, snap circuits,

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tomorrow 11/2 - Friday Make It Night: Watercolor Jellyfish w/Lindsay - learn to make a watercolor and ink jellyfish with one of Art Farm’s residents, Lindsay Elizabeth. Lindsay will walk you through different watercolor techniques and give you plenty of practice time before diving into making your own. No experience required.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sat 11/3 - two Clay Turkey Hand Prints

Sun 11/4 - two Handmade Clay Ornaments

AACPL

Sat 11/3 - Maryland City at Russett library - Bristlebot Challenge - Bristlebots are tiny simple robots made from things like toothbrush heads, motors and batteries. There will be bristlebot construction and racing challenges! Register by phone.

Sat 11/3 - Severn Park - National Capital Radio & Television Museum will be teaching morse code in a fun filled program about the invention of telegraphy and innovations in radio during WW2

Wed 11/7 - Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Block Coding - Children in grades 1-3 will learn how to program their own interactive stories and games using the ScratchJr programming system

Wed 11/7 - Discovers: The Library at the Mall - Challenge the STEM Mids - Challenge midshipmen in STEM strategy games and activities

Also…

Today - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - STEM Challenge Thursdays

Sat 11/3 - Edgewater - STEM Open House

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sat 11/3 - UAS’s 8th Anniversary Party! - f/lots of food, drink, good people and music and they may even whip up one of their signature Fire Tornados

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Tomorrow 11/2 - Hand Lettering Crash Course for Adults - Learn about calligraphy and classic hand lettering with Larsen Lane Lettering

Sat 11/3 - Retro Games and Robots night f/retro game systems and emulators as well as some robots to play with

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Chainmaille: Byzantine and Romanov - Students will make one project in Argentium sterling silver rings. You’ll have the option of making a simpler Byzantine bracelet or a more complicated Romanov bracelet and earring set.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - Fusion 360 workshop

Mondays are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - Electronics night

Sat 10/27 - Third Eye Comics Halloween Comic-Fest - Free comics, free candy and big savings. Third Eye’s events are always like a mini-Comic Con and being Halloween, it should be an extra great time to get out and show off your costume or see what others show up as.

Maryland STEM Festival - 480+ events all around MD, from makerspaces to libraries to schools, all kinds of groups are participating. Check the MD STEM Festival website for information about events in your area!

Sat 10/27 - MD-National Capital Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC)’s is hosting their Annual STEAM Fest in Upper Marlboro to bring out the inner STEAM power in PG Co’s youth by providing engaging and fun programming in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math.

Many halloween events coming up including:

ArBOOretum at the Cylburn Arboretum (Baltimore) tomorrow night (10/26) where kids can explore the spooky mansion, trick or treat around the gardens, listen to creepy music and learn about bats, owls, spiders and other nocturnal wildlife with DNR Naturalists. Live raptors and reptiles from Carrie Murray Nature Center as well as El Gringo and Wilde Thyme Food trucks and seasonal food items like hot soup, apple rings, pumpkin beignets, hot cider and cocoa!

Also BOOtanica at Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, also tomorrow night (10/26). Garden costume parade, paint a pumpkin, treat pumpkin treats, top the evening off by listening to award-winning storyteller Gary Lloyd present “Pumpkin Tales for the Young”, with stories more funny than scary.

Sunday 10/28 - Silver spring Crafts - Desserts & Sweets Fair

Art Farm - Annapolis

Sat 10/27 - Drop In Art Classes for ages 2-6 - Each drop-in is guided by a local artist and your children will explore color, texture, pattern making and more.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sat 10/17 - Old Fashioned glazed Christmas Trees

Sun 10/28 - Homemade Clay Ornaments

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park - Ellicott City

Sat 10/27 - Preserving the Harvest Workshop - Historic interpreters demonstrate Federal Period techniques for preserving foods. Very limited space, register early. $25/person

AACPL

~10/15-11/12 - Anne Arundel County STEM Festival 

Tonight 10/25 - Deale - Coding Club - Learn how to create video games using the Scratch programming language

Sat 10/27 - Deale - Spooktacular STEM - Come dressed in your spookiest costume and explore simple pre-school Halloween based science challenges, for ages 3 - 5 entering kindergarten STEM

Sat 10/27 - Riviera Beach - STEM Lab - Hands on science stations and demonstrations

Mon 10/29 - Linthicum - Maker Mondays

Tues 10/30 - Severn - Haunted Gingerbread Houses - Create and assemble the spookiest haunted gingerbread house that you can imagine! Call to reserve your spot.

Tues 10/30 - Mountain Road - STEM night - w/Chesapeake High School Robotics Team and First Lego Club

Greenbelt Makerspace

Fri 10/26 - Fermentation Fans

Sat 10/27 - Jr Makers

Sun 10/28 - Animation Meetup

Mon 10/29 - Drop-In Geneaology

Wed 10/31 - Fiber Fans

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight Thu - 10/25 - Infosec night: Digital Forensics 101 w/Lab Examples

Sat 10/27 - Classic Video Game Day - f/classic console gaming systems released 20+ years ago

Tues 10/30 - 3D Printing Night - TinkerCAD tips and tricks, slicer settings, best/worst prints show and tell, basic 3D model repair and recent news in the 3D printing world

Annapolis Makerspace

Sun 10/28 - Kimchi Class - Learn what goes into making your own kimchi at home, history, ingredients to use and where to find them locally, recipes for kimchi in everyday meals.

And as always, Mondays are for woodworking and Thursdays are for electronics at Annapolis Makerspace.

Tonight - 10/18 - Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore - Instructor Alejandra Martinez will teach a class about the history of sugar skulls and their place in Dia de los Muertos traditions. Participants will create and decorate their own sugar skull.

Tonight 10/18 - Benjamin Banneker Museum in Ellicott City - Geology of Oella - Martin Schmidt, author of Maryland’s Geology, will discuss the rocks that form Oella and Ellicott City as well as other interesting geological facts about Baltimore County. Advanced registration required.

Sat 10/20 - Station North Tool Library - Baltimore - Fix It Fair - A free event, open to the public, where you’ll find tools and materials to help you make common repairs on clothes, furniture, electronics, bikes, etc. Expert volunteers with repair skills in all kinds of fields will be on site to assist people with repairs.

Sat 10/20 - Prince George’s Fall Fest Food, Wine and Music Festival benefiting Concerts for Causes, which raises funds to give musical instruments to students in underserved communities. The festival offering two stages, complimentary wine tasting, food, exhibitors and vendors.

Sat 10/20 - Mornings at the Museum - National Museum of Health and Medicine - Silver Spring - The program provides early access to the museum for families with children who have physical, cognitive and/or sensory issues.

10/20 - Ellicott City - Benjamin Banneker Museum - Knitting: Technique, History and Nature - Learn the basic knit stitch, fiber information, history and environmental concerns related to textiles. Must bring your own supplies.

Sun - 10/21 - MAARC - Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club - RadioFallFest vintage electronics show and sale in Davidsonville. Check out collectors and vendors and vintage art deco radios, turntables, ham radios, military gear and more. Boy Scout Troop 454 will be selling breakfast and lunch items all day.

Sun 10/21 - Silver Spring Arts & Crafts Fall Fair

Sun 10/21 - Leaf It To Nature - Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills - Go on a nature hike to find out why the leaves turn to beautiful brows and oranges in the fall. Hike through Irvine’s forests, discovering different types of leaves.

Tue 10/23 - Goucher College Baltimore - Code Girls: Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of WW2 with author Liza Mundy - This lecture features stories from Goucher College’s secret “Code Girls”. These women were selected in 1942 and 1943 to work on the top-secret mission of decoding the complex German Enigma code machine and other projects that helped end WW2

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sun 10/21 and Wed 10/24 - Painting workshop - The Great Pumpkin serving plate

AACPL

Sat - 10/20 - Crofton - Orchids & Sowing Winter Seeds - An orchid instructor & master gardener will explain these exotic plants, giving tips on keeping them healthy and showing how to sow seeds in milk jugs for health seedlings in the spring.

Sat - 10/20 - Crofton - Science Fair for Young Scientists of the Future - Put on by the National Science Honor Society from Arundel High School

Tue - 10/23 - Deale - Pumpkin Palooza - Celebrate fall by learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Explore preschool science activities while enjoying pumpkin themed process art

Wed - 10/24 - Broadneck - STEM Stations - Learn about science through hands on activities

Greenbelt Makerspace

Sun - 10/21 - free weekly cartooning and animation workshop

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Sat 10/20 - Goddard/Greenbelt - Join Goddard at their visitor center for International Observe the Moon Night - an evening of lunar science and exploration. Free and open to the public.

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sunday - 10/21 - Crafternoon: Making Fairy Wings

Tues 10/23 - Electronics Fundamentals: DC Circuits

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Tonight - Thursdays are their Robotics Club Night

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - 10/23 - Monthly General Meeting/Open House

Today through Sunday - 10/11-10/14 - United States Powerboat Show in Annapolis

Today through Sunday - 10/11-10/14 - 11th annual Chesapeake Film Festival in Easton - The only film festival on the eastern shore, curated by industry insiders. The event will be held in five venues, including the historic Avalon Theater of Easton

This weekend 10/12-10/13 - Fall Fest at Catoctin Furnace in Thurmont - A festival held in the historic village of Catoctin Furnace. They’ll have traditional apple butter boiling, blacksmithing demonstrations, kids activities, homemade soup, cornbread and more.

.. and if you’re in the area anyway, check out the Catoctin Colorfest - Arts and crafts featuring 300 well known and respected artists from across the US. One of the largest outdoor craft shows on the east coast.

A little closer to home, but still out there.. At the MD State Fairgrounds - Surgarloaf Crafts Festival

Sat 10/13 - Fells Point Fun Festival - Arts and crafts from local vendors, live music, local food, beer and wine.

Sun 10/14 - Annapolis Harvest Beer Festival - Chesapeake Brewing Company in Annapolis - Featuring eight local breweries showing off their harvest craft brews. Witness their homebrewing championship with celebrity judges, live entertainment, pumpkin carving, demo and food.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tomorrow 10/12 - Kids Night Out w/Coco - Drop the kids off with The Clay Bakers for their monthly Kids Night Out. Staff will help them paint, serve pizza and watch a movie.

Sun 10/14 - Autumn Wine Glass Painting - Enamel glass painting where you’ll choose from stemmed or stemless wine glasses, beer steins, pint glasses or mason jars. You’ll paint them and take them home to fire in your own oven!

Tue 10/16 - Pre-school book club - The Halloweiner - Drop by for an hour with your little one to hear a fun children’s book and paint a project that relates to the story.

https://www.theclaybakers.com/events/

GEMS - Girls Excelling in Math and Science

Sat 10/13 - STEM Saturday workshop for girls ages 11-14 at the Upper Marlboro Branch Library

AACPL

Sat 10/13 - Riviera Beach - 3D Printing for Beginners - Learn how to create and print a 3D object using Tinkercad 3D software. Ages 10 through adult

Sat 10/13 - Glen Burnie - Paper Airplane Rally - Craft paper airplanes and compete to see who can make the best plane. For elementary school students

Mon 10/15 - Severna Park - “Libby and the Shooting Star Foundation” and Rocket Challenge

Author Julia Collins and Kelly Martin of Challenge Island will present a special storytime reading of Julia’s new picture book “Libby and the Shooting Star Foundation” followed by a STEM rocket building challenge

… and if you miss it Monday at Severna Park, they’ll be doing it again on Wed 10/17 at the Maryland City at Russett library near Laurel

Mon 10/15 - Crofton - 3rd Monday STEAM Workshop. This Abrakadoodle art journey is filled with scientific discovery and cool technology.

Tue 10/16 - Odenton - Snap Circuits - Snap circuits are electronic circuits built with simple components that snap together and teach kids how electronic circuits work. For elementary and middle school students.

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sat 10/13 Halloween & Horror Epic LAN Party - 12 hours of haunting good fun, from noon til midnight. Come play horror themed games with Unallocated this Saturday! Including a costume contest, hot seat tournament and prize for the best themed food brought to share.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues 10/16 - Basics of Audio & Podcast Editing w/Audacity - I’ll be talking about some basics of audio editing with the Audacity audio editing software, but also talking about how to craft audio that’s structured well for the listener as well. I’m not an expert, but I’ve learned a few things doing this podcast and being a general radiophile most of my life.

Today-Mon 10/4-10/8 - United States Sailboat Show - Since 1970

Sat 10/6/2018 - Annmarie Garden first Saturday Makers Market

This weekend - 10/3-7 - Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show in Baltimore - Be sure to check out National Electronics Museum at both the inner harbour festival and the MD aviation museum

This weekend - 10/6-7 - Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds - Craft Festival

This weekend 10/3-7/2018 - Enable Alliance’s EnableCon 2018 - From October 3-7, key leaders, researchers, and citizen scientists will meet at the University of Maryland College Park for tours, hands-on workshops, presentations and discussions about “The State of the Science, Technology and Our Community.”

10/7 - Columbia Mini Maker Faire - The Chrysalis, Merriweather Park

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tonight - 10/4 - Ladies Night

Wed 10/10 - Autumn Wine Glass Painting

AACPL

Tues 10/9 - Odenton - STEAM Tuesday - variety of STEAM activities

Tues 10/9 - Odenton - Kids Can Cook: Healthy Desserts - Emily Craft, In-Store Nutritionist at Giant Food teaches how to make healthy desserts

Wed 10/10 - Crofton - Nature Explorers Club - Get a close-up look at a small piece of your planet by joining the Nature Explorers Club, for ages 7-11

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tues - 10/9 - Electronics Fundamentals Orientation Day - Progressive, hands-on course covering the fundamentals of electronics.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight - 10/4 - Basics of Electronics with Tom.. this week discussing digital circuits and projects

Tues - 10/9 - Dave will be discussing 3D Printing with his Monoprice Mini Delta Printer & Simplify 3D software

Mondays are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thursdays are electronics night!