Saturday 5/5 - 9:30am - Baltimore - 20th annual American Visionary Arts Museum’s Kinetic Sculpture Races - a race through Baltimore on TOTALLY HUMAN-POWERED WORKS OF ART, DESIGNED TO TRAVEL ON LAND, THROUGH MUD, AND OVER WATERS

Sunday 5/6/2018 - 11am-5pm - Kurtz’s Beach in Pasadena - Made in Maryland Festival celebrating everything MD! - Supporting the Chesapeake Bay Trust - Live music, petting zoo, local food and drink vendors including a few wineries and breweries

Tues 5/8 - 10am-2pm - St Margaret’s Church - Annapolis - Four Rivers Garden Club presents Moss Magic in Your Landscape w/Mossin’ Annie, author of The Magical World of Moss Gardening

AACPL

Tuesday 5/8 - 6pm - Odenton - Green Screen Adventure - Explore apps used to create green screen photos and videos, and take silly photos with props.

Wednesday 5/9 - 4pm-5pm - Crofton - Nature Explorers Club - Exploring the many small worlds found within our big world.

Wednesday 5/9 - 7pm - SoCoGrow - Deale - How to Grow a Goldfinch Garden

Monday 5/7 - 6pm - Maker Mondays - Glen Burnie
Tuesday 5/8 - 3:30pm - STEAM Tuesdays - Odenton
Thursday 5/10 - 3:30pm-4:30pm - STEM Challenge Thursdays - Eastport Annapolis Neck

Annapolis Makerspace

Tonight 5/3 - 7pm-9pm - Basics of Electronics w/Tom

Tuesday 5/8 - 7pm-10pm - Basic Sign Making with VCarve and CNC Routing w/Andy

Third Eye Comics

Saturday - 5/5 - 9am-9pm - Free Comic Book Day and 10th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday 10am-4pm 4/28 - Linthicum, MD - National Electronics Museum - RobotFest

Exhibitors include Art Institute of Washington with robots and animatronics, Greenbelt Makerspace with a Rubik’s cube solving robot, HacDC showing off a homemade CNC router, Harford Hackerspace, Baltimore NODE, R2DC Builders Club, RepRap, DC Robotics Club, International RC Warship Combat Club, FabLab Baltimore, DC Area Drone User Group, NoVA Labs and Unallocated Space

http://www.robotfest.com

GEMS - Girls Excelling in Math and Science

Saturday Saturday, 10am-1pm GEMS STEM Saturday Academy, a STEM workshop for girls 11-14 at the University of MD College Park - Handson activities and demos including how to code games, extract fruit DNA, a fire lab with sprinkler demo and liquid nitrogen ice cream. Registration is required.

https://www.facebook.com/events/937467763101623/

https://gemspgcounty.org/stem-saturday-academy

Catylator - Silver Spring

Signup for summer camps are still open at Catylator. Camps include art design & technology, game design 101, woodworking 101, sew electric: e-textiles and one called Create. Make. Lead.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhuNc80luhj/

AACPL

Saturday 4/28 10am-5pm - Key School Book Festival - Besides books also has drones, lego battles, hovertube, marblerun in their Tech Village. Make & Create STEM and Art Activities

https://www.keyschool.org/community/annapolis-book-festival

Saturday 4/28 10am-4pm - Eastport Annapolis Neck - Drop-in Stem, a family friendly STEM activity

Annapolis Makerspace

4/27 - 7pm-8pm - Intro to Oscilloscopes w/Aaron

4/30 - 6-8:30pm - Getting started with Raspberry Pi

5/1 - 7-9pm - Fusion360 CAD Night

Registration is open for Project Steam of MD’s daytime Summer Camp 2018 June 25th-Aug3rd. Activities include Minecraft, art, computer science and game design, 3D printing, day trips, sculpture, LEGO robotics, many more. https://projectsteammd.org

GEMS - Girls Excelling in Math and Science
Saturday 4/21 - Alpha Omega Epsilon presents the 9th annual Turtle Trot 5K benefiting GEMS - https://gemspgcounty.org/news-and-events

Greenfest 2018 - Saturday - Howard County CC -
Over 75 tables with local green businesses and environmental non-profits
Native plant sale
Children's activities
Free compost bin giveaway
Live birds and reptiles on display with local experts
Local food vendors 

Lyrid Meteor Shower - Saturday 4/21-4/23 - Peak meteor viewing will be the morning of the 22nd with little or no interference from the light of the moon.. Weather is always another issue.
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower

PGCo Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Tuesday 7-8pm 4/24 (Monthly) STEM for families at the South Bowie Library

AACPL
Saturday 10am 4/21 - Glen Burnie - Earth Day - Distribute Earth Day Kits, a cup, dirt and seeds.

Tuesday 3pm - Brooklyn Park - Chemistry is Practical! - Making simple recipes to sooth and nurture your skin to demonstrate basic chemistry and give participants something to take home with them

4/5 - 4/29 - Laurel - Chesapeake Woodturners Exhibit at the Montpelier Historic Site - Demos every Saturday, weather permitted.

Thursday - 4/12 - 7pm-8:30pm - Bees, Beneficials and Blooms - Glenview Mansion - Rockville MD

Sunday - 4/15 - Maryland 529 Discount Day - $5.29 off tickets to Port Discovery Children’s Museum sponsored by Maryland 529, the college savings plan of MD

Starting Saturday - 4/14 - 4/21 - Light City Baltimore - On The Wings of Freedom (Hundreds of color changing butterflies), Octopus (large scale automated sculpture internally lit by thousands of LEDs), Prismatica (25 giant prisms), monumentally scaled kintech sculpture Whale Ghost

4/7-4/15 - National Robotics Week

Saturday 4/14 - March for Science in Washington, DC

GEMS

Saturday 2-4pm 4/14 - Free STEM Robotics Workshop - Silver Spring Library

Greenbelt Makerspace

Friday 4/13 - 5pm-6:30pm - Little Makers 

Saturday 4/14 - 10am-4pm - Greenbelt Maker Festival

Anne Arundel County Public Libraries

Monday 4/16 - Odenton - Kids Can Cook: Breakfast! Emily Craft, in-store nutritionist at Giant Food - registration is required

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Fri 4/6th 7:30-9pm - Owings Mills - Irvine Nature Center - Family Night Hike - Twilight stroll where they’ll identify frogs by site and sound. Red-lens flashlight is required.

Sat - 4/7 10am-6pm - Edgewater - Hawk’s Yachts at LIBERTY MARINA 2nd annual Nautical Flea Market

Sat 4/7 - 10:30am-noon - Ellicott City - Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum - Foraging for Wild Edibles

Sat/Sun - 4/7-4/8 - St Michaels - Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival 10am-5pm Sat, 10am-3pm Sun

Sat/Sun 4/7-4/8 - DC Convention Center - 5th Annual USA Science and Engineering Festival - Free two day expo - 3,000 hands-on exhibits, stage shows, much more from the world’s leading scientific and engineering groups. Perfect for children, teens and families who want to inspire curious minds. 10am-6pm Sat, 10am-4pm Sun

Mon 4/9 - 3:45pm - Edgewater - Middle School STEM - STEM activities including engineering challenges, learning to code and VR experiences

Mon 4/9 - 7pm - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - Star Party! - Explore the night sky with Glenn Bock of the Goddard Space Center. Learn about constellations, star clusters and galaxies and view them through a telescope. This is an outdoor activity, so dress appropriately for the weather.

Tue 4/10 - 3:30pm - Odenton - STEAM Tuesdays

Wed 4/11 - 4pm - Broadneck - Catapult Challenge - Building catapults using popsicle sticks and rubber bands

Wed 4/11 - 4pm - Crofton - Nature Explorers Club - Get an up-close look at a piece of your planet. Each month they investigate an aspect of the ecosystem through presentations, conversations and hands-on activities.

Wed 4/11 - 7pm - Deale - SoCoGrow - Oyster Gardening - boosting oyster population in your own backyard

Annapolis Makerspace

4/5 - Thursday - Basics of Electronics with Tom

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Carroll Arts Council

March 29 - April 10th - Carroll Arts Center in Westminster MD hosting their annual PEEPShow featuring over 150 sculptures, dioramas and other pieces of art creating with everyone’s favorite (or hated) marshmallow treats.

AwesomeCon

March 30 - April 1st - AwesomeCon - DC convention center. The region’s largest scifi/fantasy/comic/tv/movie convention!

4/2 - Monday - 6pm - Glen Burnie - Maker Mondays

Annapolis Makerspace

4/3 - Tuesday - Our monthly Autodesk Fusion 360 workshop with Russ

4/5 - Thursday - Basics of Electronics with Tom

Unpub 8 

Fri-Sun 3/23-3/25 - 10am-2pm - Hunt Valley - Unpublished Games Festival - Check out a variety of unpublished board games

Build Up Some STEAM 

Wed 3/28 - 9:30am-3pm - Kids exploring STEAM themed activities for children ages 3-10.

Prince George's County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 

Tues - 7pm-8pm - South Bowie Branch Library -STEM For Families

Chesapeake Brewing Co 

Thu 3/22 - 6pm - Annapolis - Victory Garden/Plants & Pints - You own personal herb garden!

Anne Arundel County Public Libraries

Tues 3/24 - 10am - Crofton Library - Compost It! Grow It! Eat It! - for adults

Annapolis Makerspace

Sun 3/25 - How To Make Kimchi - Both classes are already full, but keep an eye on our calendar for the next one!

Greenbelt Makerspace

• Saturday, 3/17 - 10am-Noon - Teen Makers
• Sunday, 3/18 - 2pm-4pm - Animation Meetup

Unallocated Space - Severn, MD

• Saturday, 3/17 - Noon-Midnight - Epic LAN Party

Anne Arundel County Public Libraries

• Saturday, 3/17 - 11am-1pm - Glen Burnie Library - Minecraft: Adapt, Improvise!
• Saturday, 3/17 - 2pm-4pm - Riviera Beach Library - Minecraft
• Monday, 3/19 - 3:45pm - Edgewater Library - Middle School STEM
• Tuesday, 3/20 - 4pm - Crofton Library - 3D Printer Design Class for Grades 3-5
• Tuesday, 3/20 - 7pm - Crofton Library - 3D Printer Design Class for teens and adults

NASA Wallops

• Saturday, 3/17 - 1pm-4pm - Easter Egg Hunt
• Thursday, 3/22 - 6:30am-10:30am rocket launch window

Annapolis Makerspace

• Sunday, 3/18 - 9:30am-6pm at the latest - NoVA Maker Faire carpool from park and ride at Harry S Truman Parkway to Fairfax, VA and back

Featured on Eye on Annapolis' Daily News Brief dated 3/1/2018

Greenbelt Makerspace

• Saturday, 3/10 - 10am-4pm - (quarterly) Repair Cafe - Bring in your damaged clothing, furniture, appliances, computers, toys, etc Donations of broken gear accepted for their Destruction Day where they invite kids to disassemble things to see how they work.
  
• Spots still available for Greenbelt Makerspace's one day Programming workshop on Friday March 30th. More information here.
  

Featured on Eye on Annapolis' Daily News Brief dated 3/1/2018

From the Anne Arundel County Public Library system:

• Thursday, 3/1 - 6pm - Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Virtual Reality
  
• Friday, 3/2 - 2pm - 6:30pm - Crofton Library - Build & Play for adults and children using Lego-style bricks
• Monday, 3/5 - 6pm - Glen Burnie Library - Maker Mondays
• Tuesday, 3/6 - 6pm - Linthicum Library - Microcinema - Learn to write, shoot and edit short films with your phone