County Fair season - Allegany County Fair 7/13-7/21 and Kent County Fair 7/19-7/21

Fri 7/13 - B&O Ellicott City Station Museum - Rails and Ales Night at the Museum

Wed 7/18 - Amphibian Walk at Oregon Ridge

AACPL

SoCo Grow Picnic with the Pollinators Saturday, July 14; 5:00 - 7:00 pm Please join us for a special “Picnic with the Pollinators” at the amazing Jug Bay Butterfly Garden. We will have a potluck dinner, tour of the garden, and the ladies of Pollinators Prospering People-PX3 will show us how to create a Solitary Bee Condo and Chrysalis Tree. Held at the Glendening Nature Preserve, 5702 Plummer Lane, Lothian MD 20711

Afternoons, all next week at Eastport-Annapolis Neck library - Coding Rocks - Children going into 4th and 5th grade can learn the basics of computer programming, all experience levels are welcome, registration is required.

Mon - https://www.aacpl.net/events/coding-rocks-library-107688
Tue - https://www.aacpl.net/events/coding-rocks-library-107723
Wed - https://www.aacpl.net/events/coding-rocks-library-107757
Thu - https://www.aacpl.net/events/coding-rocks-library-107787
Fri - https://www.aacpl.net/events/coding-rocks-library-107800

Greenbelt Makerspace

All next week, Tech Topics Summer Camp - introducing students to a variety of tech topics such as animation, game design, electronics, robotics and more. All activities are hands-on and parents can follow along via daily online updates.

Unallocated Space - Severn

Saturday - Noon-Midnight - Epic Lan Party - Minecraft Hunger Games style, Unreal Tournament, Evolve, Team Fortress 2, Rocket League and more. Potluck food and refreshments available.

Annapolis Makerspace

First Anniversary Party and massive open house. Invite all your friends and family!

AMAZON PRIME DAY!

If you want to support Annapolis Makerspace and aren’t ready to become a full member, you can always support us by shopping Amazon through the banner on MakeAnnapolis.org. It costs you nothing extra and we get a small kickback from each sale. Simply go to MakeAnnapolis.org and click the Amazon banner on the right before shopping. You can even bookmark the page to make it easy for next time.

All next week, 7/9th-13th at ArtFarm Annapolis’ Fearless Girls Photo Camp for ages 10-13, taught by professional photography instructors.

Also all next week, 7/9th-13th, Clay Bakers is doing a “Mystical and Woodland Creatures” summer camp for children using various media such as pottery painting, glass fusing, clay sculpting and tye dye.

Starting 7/9 and running through Aug 17th, Paint It! Ellicott City - Juried plein air outdoor painting exhibition in Ellicott City

Starting today 7/5 and running all weekend - Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Association Steam Show - If you’ve ever noticed a bunch of tractors and steam engine looking things tucked away in the trees on the right hand side, just past Easton.. while you were headed down to the ocean.. that’s what you saw. It’s been running for 45 years now and seems to still be going strong!

While we’re talking about the eastern shore… a shout out to Kevin and all the great people at M4 Reactor in Salisbury. Makerspaces are pretty community-centric, so that’s a bit of a hike for most people, but M4 is doing some really great things down there, so if you know anyone near Salisbury looking for a workshop, they certainly have everything from electronics to woodworking, even a pretty powerful laser cutter.

Catylator Silver Spring - Summer camp signups now available - Game Design 101 for grades 5+, Sew Electric e-textiles and Architects Club for Girls

AACPL

Mon afternoon 7/9 - Riviera Beach - Teen Maker Space with various craft and STEM activities

Tue afternoon (7/10) 3:30pm - Odenton - STEAM Tuesday - again with various STEAM activities in each session

Tue evening 6pm - Odenton - stick around for Introduction to 3D Printing where you can design and create your own 3D project. Registration is required:

Wed afternoon (7/11), 3pm - Crofton - 3D Print Design Class using TinkerCad to design a 3D object. First 20 attendees will be provided a laptop and designs can be printed after the event.

Greenbelt Makerspace

All next week is their Minecraft summer camp

Tomorrow night [correction] morning (Friday 7/6) programming workshop as well as family game night

Wednesday is for Teen Makers

Annapolis Makerspace

Tue 7/10 - Fusion 360 workshop with Russ.. usually on the first Tuesday of the month but we pushed it back due to July 4th.

Sat 7/14 - First Anniversary Party and massive open house. Invite all your friends and family!

If you want to support Annapolis Makerspace and aren’t ready to become a full member, you can always support us by shopping Amazon through the link or banner on MakeAnnapolis.org. It costs you nothing extra and we get a small kickback from each sale. Simply go to MakeAnnapolis.org and click the Amazon banner on the right before shopping. You can even bookmark the page to make it easy for next time.

If you or someone you know is involved with a makerspace or STEM program who are doing good things and you’d like their program highlighted here, I’d love to hear about them! Just drop me an email at trevor@makeannapolis.org and tell me all about it!

Sunday - First Sunday Arts Festival in Annapolis w/ over 130 local and regional artists taking up the first few blocks of West Street

Saturdays through August - Learn to Kayak at Cherry Hill Splash Park in Brooklyn. Beginners are provided kayaking instruction and skill building tips

6/30 - Oregon Ridge Park - Cockeysville - Basketmaking Workshop - where you’ll learn how to weave a wine bottle basket. There are some special materials you need to bring with you, so check the website for more information.

AACPL

Monday 7/2 - Glen Burnie - Maker Mondays for teens

Challenge Island/Challenge Island Jr - Preschoolers and elementary school students explore science and engineering through music in this STEAM event. Children work in teams to combine creativity and critical thinking to design musical instruments which will be used in a musical performance. Registration is required.

Severna Park - Monday, 7/2

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-jr-107444

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-107455

Deale - Tuesday 7/3

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-jr-107468

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-107482

Unallocated Space - Severn

Saturday from 2 to 6pm - Crafternoon: Cosplay 101 - Intro to Cosplay

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight - Basics of Electronics with Tom

Sat 6/23 - Town of Berlin and Believe in Tomorrow are hosting the 29th Annual Bathtub Races! This is a land race where one person pushes one or more people inside a bathtub with wheels. Multiple heats lead up to the 2018 champion bathtub racer!

Sat 6/23 - 10th Annual Baltimore Dragon Boat Challenge - The Baltimore Dragon Boat Club will host a mix of corporate, city, breast cancer survivor and club dragon boat teams in a series of 500-meter and 2k races.

Sat 6/23 - Ellicott City - First of five “Kids in Gardens” at Benjamin Banneker Park - Kids learn about nature while digging in the garden. Pre-registration is required, $15 for all five classes.

This weekend 6/23-24 - Ocean City - The Eastern Shore Art League and Clay Guild of the Eastern Shore hosting Clay-a-palooza - Events include throwing and handbuilding demos, a throwdown competition and bowl-making sessions.

Also 6/23-24 - Bel Air - Inaugural East Coast RepRep 3D Printing Festival - We have the RepRap project, started in 2005, to thank for all the hobby level 3D printers we have today. Their goal was to develop a low cost 3D printer that can print many of it’s own parts.. RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid Prototyper 

Next week - Clay Bakers - Shark Week Summer Camp - Campers create projects from painting pottery, glass fusing, sculpting, tye die and mosaics. Camps encourage children to try new art media and promote creativity and imagination.

AACPL

Monday afternoon 6/25 - Edgewater - Makey Makey Piano - Did you know you can make a piano out of bananas? With Makey Makey you can! Makey Makey is a fun electronics kit that lets you use random everyday objects as controllers for a digital piano, games, and more!

Wed morning 6/27 - Broadneck - Challenge Island - Children will work in teams, combining critical thinking and creativity to design musical instruments and put on a performance! The first session is for preschoolers and later there’s one for elementary school aged children.

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-jr-107365

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-107381

Thursday.. Same.. - Maryland City at Russett near Laurel

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-jr-107394

https://www.aacpl.net/events/challenge-island-107411

PGCo Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta

Tues - 6/26 - South Bowie Branch Library - STEM for Families

Greenbelt Makerspace

Tomorrow night 6/22 - Fermentation Fan Club for fans of any kind of fermentation including home brew beer, kombucha, yogurt, pickling.. You name it. A virtual potions class!

Saturday 6/23 - Repair Cafe - Bring by your broken items and work with them on possibly fixing them. From sewing a ripped shirt to gluing a loose chair leg or silver soldering damaged jewelry. For items that can’t be repaired, they take donations for a week of “take it apart” activities where kids and curious people are invited to take things apart and to see how they work!

Next week is also their Robotics Summer Camp using Lego Mindstorm robotics kits, performing challenging tasks and competing for special rewards.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tuesday 6/26 - Open House and General Meeting

Signup is open for for ArtFarm Annapolis’ Summer Art Camp taught by Reed Gallant from 6/25 to 6/29. There’s a morning session for children ages 5-7 and an afternoon session for children ages 8-1.

Now through 7/14 - Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition - BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown - an exhibition of juried watercolor paintings held by the Baltimore Watercolor Society

Sat - 6/16 - Centreville, MD - Drink Maryland - A Maryland Makers Festival - Featuring local wine, cider, beer and spirits as well as artisans, artists, farmers, live music and food on the streets of downtown Centreville.

Sat/Sun - 6/16-6/17 - St Mary’s City - RaceX Maryland Drone Race and Show - Watch professional drone racers from across the US race their drones.

Sun/Wed - Clay Bakers - Downtown Annapolis - Fused Glass workshop making a turtle platter

AACPL

Wed - 6/20 2pn - Broadneck - Make your own musical instrument

Wed - 6/20 6pm - Broadneck - Fun with Robots

Greenbelt Makerspace

Tonight - 6/14 - Javascript Workshop

Sat - 6/17 - Animation meetup

This week, starting Monday morning - 6/18 - Minecraft Summer Camp

NASA’s Wallops

Next Thurs morning, 5:30am - Suborbital Sounding Rocket - RockOn (education payloads)

Annapolis Makerspace

Tuesday - 6/19 - Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Monday 6/11-6/17 - National Week of Making

The Week of Making is an opportunity to for individuals in communities throughout the U.S. to participate in Making activities locally, celebrating the innovation, ingenuity and creativity of Makers.

Makers are developing new solutions and products for pressing challenges, engaging students in hands on, interactive learning of STEM, arts, and design, and enabling individuals to learn new skills in fabrication and manufacturing.

The Maker Movement is driven by engineers, hobbyists, tinkerers, crafters, artists, entrepreneurs and innovators and is changing the face of education, breathing new life and innovation into American manufacturing and strengthening American communities.

Tuesday 6/12/2018 - Capitol Hill Maker Faire DC - celebrating the American Maker movement. It will be a fun interactive event for members of the public, Congress and congressional staff. It’s hosted by the Nation of Makers, the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences and in collaboration with the Congressional Maker Caucus.

Brookside Gardens - Wheaton - Wings of Fancy - Live butterfly and caterpillar exhibit featuring hundreds of live butterflies from North America, Costa Rica, Africa and Asia.

AACPL

Saturday 6/9 - Deale Library - SoCoGrow Upcycler’s Workshop - Wine Bottle Trellis
Turn empty wine bottles into a fun and functional trellis for your vining plants. Bring bottles and a drill if you have them.

Tuesday 6/12 - Odenton Library - Snap Circuits, for elementary school children. - Snap Circuits are electronic components that you connect together using built-in magnets. They’re safe and fun for children of all ages and teach the fundamentals of how circuits and electronics work.

Unallocated Space - Severn

Sat 6/9 - Community Tech Swap Meet & Garage Sale - Clearing out tech and maker stuff from their makerspace and raising a little money in the process. Also contact them if you have stuff of your own you want to get rid of, table space is available for a small donation - Rain or shine

Annapolis Makerspace
Tonight - 6/7 - Electronics w/Tom Burke
Tonight - 6/7 - AMS Woodworker’s organize the shop

NEW LOCATION! Annapolis Makerspace has MOVED! As of June 1st, 2018, we are open at our new location at 2014 Renard Ct, Unit C, just up the street from Annapolis Bowl and Annapolis Mall.

Registration is open for the National Electronics Museum’s Pioneer Camp for children ages 8-11. The first session is July 18th and 19th.. The second session is August 8th and 9th. Pioneer camp is a two day summer camp held twice each summer (same program for both sessions). This year’s Pioneer Camp is Space Themed. Campers learn about satellites, telescopes, stars, space travel and more. Campers will make their own telescopes and model planets.

The week starting Sunday 6/3 - Maryland Federation of Art is hosting the 14th year of “Paint Annapolis” - 5 day juried “plein air” painting competition that brings outdoor painters from around the world.

Tomorrow through 6/10 - Annapolis Arts Week - City Dock. Encompassing a wide range of artistic creativity in Annapolis including events at art galleries, musicians and performing arts studios.

Saturday/Sunday - 6/2-6/3 - Naval Air Station Patuxent River Air Expo - Free family fun featuring aerial acrobatic performances, exhibits, food and kid’s activities. Performances include the Blue Angels, the GEICO Skytypers, Shock Wave Jet Truck and more.

Saturday/Sunday - 6/2-6/3 - Baltimore Clayworks’ Seconds Sales - Your chance to shop from hundreds of pieces of pottery, sculpture and ceramic objects handmade by local artists at discounted prices. The event includes food trucks as well as beer and wine vendors.

Saturday/Sunday - 6/2-6/3 - Frederick Festival of the Arts - A juried two-day regional celebration of the artist including hundreds of professional artists from over 20 states.

Sunday 6/3 - Papermaking - Benjamin Banneker Museum - Ellicott City - Create your own paper from recycled and natural materials with materials provided. Dress for making a mess and pre-registration is required.

Tonight 5/31 - Javascript Workshop - Greenbelt Makerspace - Using Khan Academy’s Intro to Javascript: Drawing and Animation course

Annapolis Makerspace

Sunday 6/3 - First Sunday Arts Festival - Annapolis Makerspace will have a booth at this month's First Sunday Arts Festival in Annapolis.  We'll be in Whitmore Park, right along Calvert Street. Stop by and say Hi!

Tuesday 6/5 - Fusion 360 night w/Russ Workshop - Get tips on how to improve your 3D design skills using Fusion 360.

Project Steam MD
There's still time to sign up for classes which run June 25th-Aug 3rd - Classes include art, computer science and game design, 3D printing, sculpture, LEGO Robotics, Engineering and more.

This weekend in Baltimore, 5/25-5/28, is Balticon, the region’s largest and longest running scifi/fantasy convention. Founded over 50 years ago, Balticon is always a great place to show off, or just check out, some fantastic cosplay.

Saturday 5/26 - Smith Island Arts and Crafts Festival featuring the works of local artists and the cultural heritage of Smith Island which will be on display as well as for sale.. As well as local food specialties including the famous Smith Island Cake. This event is actually ON Smith Island, so start looking into getting your boat in the water or making ferry reservations now.

Tonight (Thurs 5/24) - Chesapeake Brewing Company is My Victory Garden’s indoor herb class. Learn about herbs and go home with your own kitchen herb basket. The class is taught by a hydroponics professional from MikeGro Greens of Annapolis and they start promptly at 7pm. The event is limited capacity and preregistration is required.

Starting Yesterday (Wednesday 5/23) and running through July 8th at Quiet Waters Park is the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters Members’ Exhibit - Artwork will be exhibited at the Willow Gallery at Quiet Waters Park with an open reception to be held June 3rd.

Annapolis Makerspace

NEW LOCATION! Moving day is this weekend. We’ll be prepping on Saturday and doing the big move on Sunday. Our first general meeting and open house is on Tuesday 5/29 and we’ll be officially open on June 1st. Between Saturday and June 1st, the Hudson Street location will be offline.

Clay Bakers - Downtown Annapolis - Sunday 5/20 and Wed 5/23 - Glass Workshop - Pendant and Earrings

Steppingstone Farm Museum - Havre de Grace - Sat-Sun 5/19-5/20 - Hacking History - “a maker festival featuring hands-on crafts for you to learn, make and take with you” featuring blacksmithing, woodworking, weaving, honey harvest, lace making and a wheelwright demonstraton

Benjamin Banneker Museum - Ellicott City - Sat 5/19 - Wildflower Jelly Making

AACPL - Mon 4/21 - 3:45pm Edgewater - Middle School STEM - STEM activities including engineering challenges, learning to code and virtual reality experiences.

PGCo Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta - Tues 5/22 - 7-8pm - South Bowie Branch Library - STEM for Families (Facebook link)

NASA’s Wallops - Sun 5/20 - Antares - ISS Cargo Resupply 5:04am

Unallocated Space - Severn

Mon 5/21 - Project Night

Tues 5/22 - Open Craft Night

Wed 5/23 - Open House

Wed 5/23 - Lockingpicking 102

Thurs 5/24 - Infosec Night

Annapolis Makerspace

NEW LOCATION! - We're moving soon! We’re still at the old space Hudson Street for another week or so, but we’ll be moving to our new location at 2014 Renard Ct Unit C a block up from the Annapolis Bowl. Our normal monthly general meeting and open house would normally be this coming Tuesday, but we’re pushing it back a week so we can have it at the new space! Check our calendar at MakeAnnapolis.org for more details on this and other class location changes.

Friday-Sunday 5/11/-13/2018 - if you’re interested in hot air and things that go up.. Preakness Balloon Festival - Howard County Fairgrounds - More than 15 hot air balloons, tethered balloon rides in the morning and evening, beer and wine garden, live music, Nathans hot eating contest and more

Saturday May 12th, 11am - Hagerstown, Washington County Historical Society has having a workshop on creating your own rainstick, a traditional Latin American instrument that sounds like falling rain.

Saturday - Sunday 5/12-5/13 - 15th annual Bethesda Fine Arts Festival - at Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle - with more than 130 artists, live entertainment and local restaurants.

Saturday 5/12 - World Scratch Day - Scratch is a simple visual programming language for kids and adults that can be used to create interactive stories, games and animations and you can share your creations online.

Greenbelt Makerspace Scratch Day - https://www.facebook.com/events/223106935126788/
https://www.meetup.com/Greenbelt-Makerspace/events/250182824/

Saturday 5/12 - Arduino Day 2018
https://blog.arduino.cc/2018/03/23/save-the-date-arduino-day-2018-is-saturday-may-12th/

Catylator Silver Spring

Saturday 5/12 3:30pm - Silver Sat Team Meeting - SilverSat is a multi-year project to design, build, launch and operate a real satellite. The participants will have the experience of a real-world engineering challenge, one that many would consider well beyond their abilities.

Thursday 5/10 6:30pm - Laser 101 - How to use the Laser Cutter and Engraver to create custom designs in glass, paper, wood, and metal - You will leave the class with your own laser cut object

Thursday 5/17 6:30pm - Maker Lab: Laser Studio - Making use of what you learned in Laser 101 (a prerequisite for this workshop)

AACPL

Saturday 5/12 10am - Edgewater - Coding with Cubetto - your child’s first coding kit. Young children learn to program a simple robot using blocks instead of a screen.

Monday 5/14 6:30pm - Severna Park - Minecraft Club - first time players and experienced users are invited to build things within the world of Minecraft.

Annapolis Makerspace

Sunday - 5/13 - 1pm-3pm - Basics of Needlefelting with Emi - where you’ll learn how to make small three dimensional soft sculptures out of felt.