County fairs - One more left to go!

Yesterday through this weekend - Calvert Co Fair

Fall festivals -

Sat 9/29 - Piney Run Apple Festival, Eldersurg, just north of Columbia. Enjoy everything apple as well as family craft making activities, scarecrow making, hayrides, music and more.

9/22-10/28 Sats/Suns - Homestead Gardens Fall Festival, Davidsonville - In their 35th year, Homestead Gardens’ Fall festival is the largest in the area, featuring hayrides, a pumpkin patch, corn maze, corn cannon, pollinator express, corn box, carnival games, pony rides, beer garden and their amazing apple cider donuts. Also with food, including Beards Creek BBQ!

9/22-10/28 - Sats/Suns - Greenstreet Gardens Fall Festival in Lothian - featuring many of the same things but also including a petting zoo, spider web and tire tower.

Sat 9/29 - Hops & Harvest Festival in Columbia - featuring 75 MD beers, wines and spirits along with 25 MD artisans and other vendors as well as local food, live entertainment, games and more.

Sat 9/29 - Oella History Hike at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum - Learn local history while hiking 3.5 miles at Banneker Park. Advance registration is required

Sun 9/30 - Do you know the story of Cassiopeia or how to make your own glow water? Check out the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills for Moonlight Mania. Learn the mysteries of the stars, create your own constellation and watch the stages of the moon in person!

Today/all weekend 9/28-9/30 - 23rd Annual Baltimore Book Festival - Baltimore’s premier celebration of literary arts showcasing renowned and celebrity authors, book signings, panel discussions, children’s activities and more.

This weekend 9/29-9/30 - Muddy Creek Artists Guild Studio Tour - This third annual artists’ studio tour showcases Guild artists working on a variety of media in an “open house” at their respective studios.

This weekend 9/29-9/30 - Charm City Fly-In - Remote Control Airplane Festival - Halethorpe - this annual event is the largest celebration of radio controlled flying in Maryland with two days of demonstrations, airshows and hands on experience with radio controlled planes, jets, helicopters and more.

Mon 10/1-10/31 - Free Fall Baltimore - is a citywide arts celebration featuring more than 300 free arts and cultural activities at venues around Baltimore. Check their website for a full list of participating venues.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sun 9/30 - Clay Day - Clay Christmas Tree

AACPL

Today 9/27 - Deale - Coding Club - Learn how to use Scratch to code video games and other fun things.

Fri 9/28 - Discoveries: The Library at the Mall - Butterflies: from Caterpillar to Fantastic Flight - Learn about the butterfly life cycle and create a beautiful butterfly of your own

Mon 10/1 - Severn - Bienvenidos Amigos: Welcome to Costa Rica! - Experience music, food, language and traditional Costa Rican Culture

Wed 10/3 - Severn - Library Camp Out - Camping fun for the whole family, from the comfort of the library. Learn about camping safety and join them for campfire stories, sing-a-longs and blacket tents!

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - 10/2 - 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.

And Thursdays are for electronics.

County fairs -

Today (9/13) through Tuesday 9/18 - Charles County Fair in La Plata

Anne Arundel County Fair - starts Wed 9/12 - now through Sunday 9/16

Sat 9/15 - Greenbelt Makerspace - Repair Cafe

Sat 9/15 - Edgewater - Londontown Gardens - Tot Time Outdoor adventures for children and their parents, exploring nature and participating in various nature related activities.

Sat 9/15 - Critter Lunch Time at Benjamin Banneker Museum - Help the staff feed the animals at the Banneker museum and learn about the habits and diets of their favorite animals.

Now through Sunday - Wheaton - Brookside Gardens - Wings of Fancy - Live butterfly & caterpillar exhibit

Sun 9/16 - Bel Air Festival for the Arts - Juried crafts, fine arts, photography, entertainment and food. 350 artists, photographers, and crafts people.

Art Farm - Annapolis

Sat 9/15 - Art from the Heart - An evening in Annapolis with local art, food, drinks and Candidate for Maryland Senate, Eve Hurwitz.

Mon 9/17 - Fall semester begins at ArtFarm and run through Nov 5th with an art show Friday 11/10 - Featuring teen improv, sketch booking & applied aparts, adult improv, photojournalism for teens, an art class as well as cartooning

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Wed 9/19 - Birch Forest Glass Fusing - you’ll learn how to cut and arrange the glass into this project’s design

AACPL

Tonight 9/13 - Maryland City at Russet library near Laurel - StorytimeSTEM for Preschool - Learn about STEM topics through storytime books and hands on learning activities.

Sat 9/15 - Eastport Annapolis Neck library and Odenton library - Build and Play building with Legos

Sat 9/15 - Crofton library - Successful Vegetable Growing in Containers - Master Gardener Pat Shema shows how to grow flowers and vegetables in containers from Spring to Fall.

Mon 9/17 - Crofton library - 3rd Monday STEM Workshop: Biodiversity Art Doodle - This Abrakadoodle art journey is filled with scientific discoveries and other cool things! Please call the Crofton library to register.

Wed 9/19 - Edgewater library - Science Fair Tips & Tricks - Find everything you need to win your school’s science fair. Exploring premium resources and websites that will help you every step of the way, from choosing an experiment to creating a stunning display. Parents and students are encouraged to attend together.

Second Session - Science Fair Tips and Tricks at Edgewater

County fairs -

Anne Arundel County Fair - starts Wed 9/12 - all next weekend

Tonight - 9/6 - 4th Annual Baltimore Taxidermy Open presented by the Walters Art Gallery and Bazaar, a Hampden shop specializing in natural history items and morbid gifts, this exhibit features works of alternative taxidermy as well as examples of taxidermy from the Walters’ collection.

Sat 9/8 - Columbia - Color Columbia - Plein Air Paint Out - Come out and check out artists painting outdoors around Lake Kittamaqundi and Wilde Lake in Columbia. You’re also invited to join the artists, with your family and friends. All supplies provided and some light instruction available.

Sat 9/8 - Frederick - In The Street Festival including Craft Beverage Experience - Spend the day enjoying nine blocks of fun children’s activities, local art organizations, four stages of entertainment, beer/wine gardens, local Frederick breweries and distilleries, live music and plenty of food.

Sat 9/8 - Chesapeake Beach and North Beach - in association with the Chesapeake Beach Oyster Cultivation Society and Chesapeake Beach Railway Trail, it’s their “Taste the Beaches” festival. There will be local restaurants, food trucks, beer and wine, a Kids Zone with The Chesapeake Mermaid, their Fish Mobile (a travelling aquarium with Chesapeake Bay inhabitants), a Birds of Prey exhibit, local vendors and live music.

Sat-Sun 9/8-9/9 - Check out the 51st Annual Maryland Seafood Festival at Sandy Point State Park - As always, it features music, contests, great food, their famous crab soup cook-off and much more.

AACPL

Mon 9/10 - Crofton - 3D Print Design Class - Learn to use Tinkercad to design 3D models. Laptops provided to the first 20 attendees. Objects will be 3D printed after the event

Mon 9/10 - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - Star Party w/ Glenn Bock of the Goddard Space Center. Learn about constellations, star clusters and galaxies and view them through a telescope.

Tue 9/11 - Odenton - STEAM Tuesday - Many different STEAM activities to be enjoyed.

Wed 9/12 - Crofton - Nature Explorers Club - Get a close up look at a piece of your planet by joining the Nature Explorers Club, for ages 7-11

NASA’s Wallops

Tomorrow Fri 9/7 - between 9:30am and 12:30pm, Launch of the Apire 3 mission featuring a Black Brant IX suborbital rocket

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tomorrow/Fri 9/7 - Amateur Radio Night

Sun 9/9 - Analog Gaming Sunday featuring classic board and card games as well as some new favorites

Mon 9/10 - Project Night - come by and work on or show off your projects

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight - Basics of Electronics with Tom

and as always, every Monday night is woodworking night and every Thursday is electronics night.

This is the last weekend for the Maryland State Fair

Sat 9/1/2018 - Annmarie Garden (first Saturday) Makers Market

Sat 9/1 - Archaeology of Banneker at the Benjamin Banneker Historic Park and Museum in Ellicott City

Sun 9/1 - First Sunday Arts Festival

This weekend 9/1-9/2 - St Michaels Art League Labor Day Show - Two day art show is free and includes art for sale. Spend a day in beautiful St Michaels and check out the art and artists.

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight 8/24 - Infosec Night IPTable rules on a firewall

Sat 9/1 - Networking 101 Bootcamp - full day introduction to networking. Exploring the OSI model as well as conduct labs with Wireshark and Packet Tracer. By the end, you should have an understanding of LAN gear including routers, switches and firewall.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues 9/4 - Fusion 360 3D Modeling 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.

Today (Aug 23) - Sep 3 - MD State Fair

Sun 8/26 - Solomon’s - Annmarie Sculpture Garden - Insectival - Insect Show & Tell, Museum of Live Curiosities, Mosquito Mysteries (everything you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes), Insect Make-N-Takes, Buggy Bingo Parlor, Pollinator Pretend Play, Insect I Spy and more!

Mon 8/27-9/2 - Crisfield - 71st National Hard Crab Derby - Miss Crustacean Pageant, Crab Cooking Contest, 10k Race/Walk, Saturday concert, Boat Docking Competition and Fireworks

GEMS - Girls Excelling in Math and Science

Friday 8/24 - Duvall Event Center in Bowie - Family STEM night - fun STEM challenges using Legos, K’Nex, Games, Arts & Crafts and more

PGCo Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta

Tues 8/28 - South Bowie Branch Library - STEM for Families

Greenbelt Makerspace

All next week - Minecraft Summer Camp

Annapolis Makerspace

Monthly general meeting 8/28 - Tuesday

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.

This week's county fair -

Tomorrow/all weekend - Wicomico County Fair - Salisbury

Tonight - Howard County Conservancy just outside of Ellicott City - Mantises and Martinis - A special over-21 party. Enjoy a summer night out with special martinis and a live discussion with Drs Mike Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury about their favorite bugs (and butterflies) with an optional stroll in the meadow.

Tomorrow/Fri 8/17 - Art Farm Annapolis - Mosaic Mirror Workshop - Decorate a frame with glass, stones, tiles or broken dishes to create a custom mirror with a 5x7” opening. Learn how to arrange and cut pieces to make interesting designs and patterns.

Sat 8/18 - Most 3rd Saturdays - Edgewater - Historic Londontown Gardens - Tot Time - Admire the beauty of nature, hunt for different leaf shapes or go on a nature treasure hunt. Experiences like these help children build lasting connections to the natural world and to the adults whom they share these adventures.

Maryland STEM Festival - October 26th-November 11th - If you have a STEM/STEAM related group and want to host an event for the festival or just want to see what groups are already hosting events, all over Maryland, go to marylandstemfestival.org

AACPL

Wed - 8/22 - Glen Burnie - Introduction to Tinkercad - Tinkercad is an easy way to get into 3D modeling and 3D printing. The folks at the Glen Burnie library will help walk you through the basics. This workshop is for 4th graders and up, you’ll need an email address to sign up and bring a thumbdrive to save you work.

Greenbelt Makerspace

Tomorrow 8/17 - Programming workshop.. All next week is their Robotics Summer Camp

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight - Infosec night - Offensive Subnetting

Mon 8/20 - Project night

Wed 8/22 - Both their weekly open house as well as Lockpicking night

County fairs - Tomorrow (8/10) - 8/18 all next week - Gaithersburg - Montgomery County Fair, the largest agricultural fair in MD

Sat 8/11 - Road trip to Reston - 2nd Annual Reston Cardboard Boat Regatta presented by NoVA Labs and the NoVA Maker Faire

Sat 8/11 - National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race - High wheel bicycles, also known as penny-farthing bikes, are the olde tymey bikes with the giant front wheel and tiny rear wheel. In this race, competitors from all over the US, England, Canada and Sweden will compete. Last year, Sweden one and their champion is returning this year. Frederick is a bit of a hike for some, but it’s worth it for this one of a kind event.. The only high wheel race of it’s kind in the US

Sat 8/11 - Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum - Ellicott City - Basket Making - Expert basket maker leads a special Shaker Basket Workshop

Sun 8/12 - St Michaels - Waterman’s Appreciation Day - Celebrate everything Chesapeake. Event includings a waterman’s rodeo boat docking contest, living music, steamed crabs, beer and other food and drink.

Late Sun 8/12-13 - Perseid Meteor Shower - runs annually from July 17th to Aug 24th but peaks Sunday night. With a thin crescent moon setting early, if the clouds and weather cooperate, it’ll be a perfect night to view them. One great place is at the Howard County Conservancy in Woodstock, MD just past Ellicott City

Tues 8/14 - Pongos Learning Lab and Coder kids Club in Crofton is having a Cosplay Club Planning Meeting

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Fri/tomorrow - 8/10 - Clay Bakers Annapolis - Kids Night Out - Project and Movie - Drop the kids off with Clay Bakers for this monthly event. They’ll be supervised by a staff member to paint, eat pizza and watch a movie. Kids night out is the 2nd Friday of every month.

Sun 12th/Wed 15th - Clay Workshop making hand molded clay autumn leaves.

AACPL

Sat 8/11 - Deale - SoCo Grow Upcyclers Workshop: Vertical Window Farm Saturday, August 11; 9:30 am - noon It may be hot outside, but we are planning ahead for a winter garden. Grow leafy greens and herbs indoors with a vertical garden using plastic water bottles. Bring matching bottles and a saw if you have them.

Mon - 8/13 - Minecraft at both the Crofton library and the Severna Park library

Tue - 8/14 - Odenton - Art Bots - Build your own robot with materials provided and let it create your next masterpiece. Registration is required

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sun 8/12 - Analog Gaming Sunday - bring your favorite board and card games!

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight - Basics of Electronics with Tom - Getting back to basics on electronic components and circuit design

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.

Tuesday 8/14 - Fusion 360 workshop

County fairs - Queen Anne’s County (starting Monday all next week) in Centreville just over the bridge.. Howard County fair just up past Columbia in West Friendship starts Saturday and also runs all next week.

Starting Saturday 8/4 and running through Nov 24th, there will be hard hat tours of the James Brice House in downtown Annapolis. This 18th century dwelling is undergoing restoration and there will be tours teaching about the people who built the house and the craftspeople restorying it today.

8/4/2018 - Annmarie Garden, Solomons, (first Saturday) Makers Market - The Maker's Market is THE place to find handmade, homemade, or homegrown products!

Saturday 8/4 - Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum - Foraging at Banneker’s Homestead - Walk with a Benjamin Banneker Foundation member to see what edibles are around the park. Preregistration is required by phone or email.

Saturday 8/4 - Berlin - Pine’eer Arts & Crafts Festival - Sponsored by the Ocean Pines Pine’eer Craft Club, it features artisans from VA, MD, DE and PA selling hand made items. There will be a bake sale, food vendors and farmers market as well.

AACPL

SLIME - Both today, at 1:30pm at Brooklyn Park and Monday at 2pm at Broadneck are Slime workshops! Kids will create everyone’s favorite non-newtonian fluid.

Tomorrow 8/3 1pm - Mountain Road - How to Program a Robot - This two session program is in conjunction with the Pasadena Robotics Team. Robots and laptops are provided. Limit of 20 participants, children going into 3rd and 4th grades in September. Register for both sessions by calling the Mountain Road library.

Monday 8/6 - 10:30am - Crofton - Facebook and Social Networking for Adults - Learn the basics of Facebook and other social media programs. Learn how to set up an account, spot fake information and update your profile and privacy settings.

Monday 8/6 - 6pm - Linthicum - Sound Lab - Hands-on activities teach you about the science of sound, basis for telegraphy, radio and television.

Wednesday 8/8 - Odenton - Archaeology - Dig it! - Get dirty at the library and explore the world beneath our feet! Call for registration.

Greenbelt Makerspace

All Next week - Engineering Summer Camp - This is a special camp to construct a Rube Goldberg Machine. Each camper will have their own section to design and build with help from the entire team. Sections may be entirely mechanical or may contain electronic, robotic and computer controlled devices.

As well as tomorrow night is family game night, Wednesday Teen Makers and Fiber Fans.

Unallocated Space - Severn

8/4 - Acrylic Pour Painting, sometimes called “Fluid Art” - No brush painting ability is required for this type of painting.

Annapolis Makerspace

Sunday - 8/5 - Needle Felting Basics - Make cute fuzzy animal soft sculptures using needles and wool

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.

CORRECTION Tuesday 8/14 - Fusion 360 workshop

County fairs - Garrett County Fair, way out in western MD as well as Carroll County’s fair in Westminster.. starting Saturday and running all next week…

Art Farm Annapolis - signup for Art Farm’s fifth year of Fearless Girls Photo Camp for ages 13-16, a week long camp building confidence and challenging young photographers different shooting techniques in and around Annapolis. August 6-10

http://www.artfarmannapolis.com/summer-camps/

https://www.facebook.com/events/920702394754140/

Fri - 8-9:39pm - Benjamin Banneker Park & Museum - Moths and Mars - Celebrate National Moth Month by learning about the nocturnal world of moths and how to attract them as well as getting a close look at the red planet through a telescope as it comes close to Earth this month. Advance registration is required.

Sat - 10am-2pm - Benjamin Banneker Park & Museum - Trace Your Roots intro to genealogist lead by a master genealogist

Sat 7/25 - Architrex - Architecture Tour in Annapolis - a new Annapolis walking tour presented in partnership with Historic Annapolis. Developed and lead by local architects and artists, highlighting 300 years of history and design.

Sat 7/28/2018 Bit Gen Gamer Fest XIII presented by Magfest - 13 years strong, Bit Gen Gamer fest for another 10 hour, 1 day, music and games festival at the Ottobar in Baltimore. Featuring 18 musical acts, occupying both floors of the Ottobar, various pinball, arcade and console video games all on free play.

Sun 7/29 - Clay Bakers - Harry Pottery Birthday Bash - Create your own clay wand and paint a piece from a selection of theme related pieces. There will be cake, games and photo ops. Get your reservation today!

Sat-Sun - Hampton Inn - Frederick - StarQuest SciFi/Fantasy Convention - makeup artists, actors, cosplayers, authors

Wed - 9am-4:30am - St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Cordova, on the Eastern shore..St Joseph’s Jousting Tournament and Horse Show - including children’s game booths

Maryland STEM Festival - October 26th-November 11th - If you have a STEM/STEAM related group and want to host an event for the festival or just want to see what groups are already hosting events, all over Maryland, go to marylandstemfestival.org

AACPL

Today - 3:15pm - Deale - Cubetto Coding @ the Deale Farmers Market - Cubetta is screenless coding for children ages 3-6

Sat - 2pm - Severn - Terrarium Workshop - Create our own terrarium in a jar and take a piece of nature home with you, registration is required

Wed - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - STEAM Wednesday - various STEAM activities, every Wednesday through August

Various - Challenge Island and Jr Crofton and Glen Burnie

Greenbelt Makerspace

Tomorrow - Programming workshop

… as well as Fermentation Fans meeting

All next week is another Tech Topics Summer Camp

Wed - Teen Makers..

… as well as Fiber Fans meet

https://www.make125.org/full-calendar/

https://www.meetup.com/Greenbelt-Makerspace/events/calendar/

Annapolis Makerspace

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.

County Fair season is here!

Wrapping up tomorrow and Saturday (20-21) Washington County Ag Expo and Fair (west of Frederick)

This weekend and all next week (20-28) - Cecil County Fair

All next week - 23-28 - Somerset County Fair (south of Salisbury)

All next week - 23-28 - Harford County Farm Fair (NE of Baltimore)

County fairs aren’t just fried food and carnival rides… they feature classic and new agricultural methods and machinery, crafts of all sorts and lots of STEM related things involved with modern and classic agriculture… farms are what feed us all. Support your local farmers!

7/20-22/2018 - Artscape Baltimore - America’s largest free arts festival, attracting 350k+ attendees over 3 days with 150+ fine artists, fashion designers, craftspeople, visual art exhibits, sculpture, art cars, photography and live music.

Fri/Sat/Sun - couple of STEAM workshops

Fri - This year, new to Artscape is the Artscape Youth Day, tomorrow 7/20, with a variety of youth-focused programming including youth artists, makers and performers throughout the day!

7/21/2018 - Inaugural MASQUE Off Cosplay Dance Party - Silver Spring - Third Eye Comics, The Fillmore, Transcendent Events and Live Nation Concerts - Hosted by Maki Roll and Lua Stardust - This party is meant to celebrate all things comic book, games, movies and more. Come dressed as your favorite pop culture character

AACPL

Sat 7/21 - Riviera Beach - Playstation VR Experience - Check out what virtual reality is all about on the Playstation 4 with PSVR. Call the library to register

Mon 7/23 - Riviera Beach - Teen Maker Space - CD clock.. Turn a compact disc into a working clock. Please call the branch to register

Wed 7/25 - Maryland City at Russett (near Ft Meade) - Code Your Own Band - Create your own band and play music using the Scratch programming for beginners and Makey Makey, which turn almost any item into a musical instrument)

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight - Basics of Electronics w/Tom

Tuesday - Monthly General Meeting and Open House