What is Maker Faire?
Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies, experiments, projects.
We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.
Glimpse the future and get inspired!
Featured Makers
MicroKits: Play the Banan-a-Synth using Conductivity
Play the banana keyboard! We’ll have a keyboard made out of bananas that you can play just by touching. We’ll also have synths not connected to keyboards that you can play. We’ve upgraded our circuits from previous years,, and with our new Banan-a-Synth you can now make different instrument sounds and control sound effects using conductivity.
Imagination Station Studio
Imagination Station will be selling art kits:Ceramics or Canvases with brushes and paints to paint at home. My young enterpreneur(12) is joining me will be selling his homemade non sticky slime and will be teaching the kids how to make it as well at our booth.
Central Virginia Regional Rescue - Adoption 2026
Central Virginia Regional Rescue is a volunteer based non-profit dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption of regional animals into permanent and loving homes. Through education and community outreach, we aspire to eliminate the need for euthanasia as a means of pet population control. We are a 501(c)(3) organization, and all donations are tax deductible. Our tax ID is 81-1158479. We have no facility; all our animals live as temporary family members in foster homes. Foster homes are the heart of our rescue and the cornerstone to our ability to save lives. CVRR doesn’t have a physical facility. Instead, all of our animals live in foster homes. We provide the supplies, you provide the love & temporary home.
Xfinity
Xfinity Presentation of Products and Services of all kind.
Shake tables
Join Randolph College to explore what makes a building safe in an earthquake. Build a structure to support a ping pong ball and then test it on our shake tables!
Natural Dye with plants
I plan on having two tents as I have in previous years. One tent will hold my artwork for sale. The other tent will have a vat of Indigo where participants can pay a small fee of two dollars to choose something to dye with different folding techniques. I am also going to have a table with a display of plants that give a variety of colors with factual information.
Wooden car races
Try your hand racing wooden car and learning the physics of ramps.
Cardboard Model Train
This will be a Cardboard model train of the 611 Locomotive engine built by a young maker.
