Maker Fest 2024 Portsmouth

Okii Dream’s Sound Innovation Mini Lab is a fun, hands-on STEAM workshop where students explore how sound is created through vibrations. Using simple everyday materials, students will build a basic instrument, test how different materials affect sound, and learn how engineers improve designs through trial and error. Create one simple instrument, explore how vibrations create sound, test how length, tension, or materials affect pitch, use the engineering design process to build and improve their design.

Hands on trades activities, Snap Circuits

Churchland High's FIRST Robotics Competition team will demonstrate their most recent robot for the public. Students will engage with the public and talk about the engineering design process, the competition itself, and the equipment we use to create our robots.

We will be demonstrating a variety of projects ODU IEEE has done, with our main demonstration being our 8x8x8 LED Cube. The other two projects will be our Simon Breadboard, which uses an Arduino Microcontroller to replicate the titular memory game, and a separate breadboard circuit that spells out “ODU” with a 7-segment display.

Spun yarn, small rope making with 17th c device

Wire art/ wearable wire art demos (a vendor in the PACC shop)

Rachel "RJ" Jaffe from 23 Beans brings a whimsical pottery wheel-experience! With her two miniature-size wheel, she offers live demonstrations making ceramic cups, bowls, vases and more. Participants are welcome to watch and try it for themselves.

Arianna of Chao Studios will have displays and demonstrations of her large-scale clay sculpting, along with hands-on opportunities for visitors to try manipulating clay with their own hands.

We provide access to educational STEAM demonstrations harnessing the physics and sticky similarities between molten glass and sweet ice cream. For the Maker Fair we can provide a live glassblowing and/or flame working, and stained glass demonstrations.

Displays of handmade electric base guitars, parts, and components, along with explanation / interpretation, and some demonstration of instrument’s sound

Basket weaving. Participants will add to a “community” basket available on the table, after a demonstration by Tina.

Encaustic Demonstration. How to create Artworks using encaustic paint (beeswax. colored pigment and damar resin). All the encaustic, paints, medium, brushes, hot plate, demo boards and paper, heat gun, and oil paint sticks will be provided by the artist.

We could also set up a children's art station where kids can create something with a Ukrainian theme. Ukraine is well known for its decorated Easter eggs, and we may display them and demonstrate the traditional techniques used to create them. We could offer kids to color easter egg designs on paper. Or feature sunflowers and traditional Ukrainian ornaments.

Explore the latest 3D printing technology with onsite demonstrations.

Rain gutter regatta trials with paddleboats

Woodturning demonstrations and explanations

Kelly Woodruf is the artist providing a coffee-painting make-n-take

Community quilt making activity for children

Raku Glazing and Horsehair Firing demonstration