[yt-dev] Fwd: [Py-CU] Fwd: Heartland Maker Fest is coming! Sat. Oct 18 10-4pm @ Lincoln Square

Hi all, For those of you at the workshop whose flights don't leave until Saturday afternoon, this might be a fun diversion... :) Matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "E.W." Date: Oct 16, 2014 9:36 PM Subject: [Py-CU] Fwd: Heartland Maker Fest is coming! Sat. Oct 18 10-4pm @ Lincoln Square To: Cc: FYI, the Heartland Maker Fest is coming up this Saturday! Py-CU will have a table with live coding. This is fantastic event run out our parent organization, Makerspace Urbana. Elizabeth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heartland Maker Fest Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:24 PM Subject: Heartland Maker Fest is coming! Sat. Oct 18 10-4pm @ Lincoln Square To: http://heartlandmakerfest.org/ *Saturday October 18th, 2014 - **10am - 4pm * * Lincoln Square Mall in UrbanaFree Admission!* Join us this Saturday for our annual Heartland Maker Fest http://heartlandmakerfest.org/! This is a one-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, music, science, and technology projects and the Do-It-Yourself spirit in our community. This year we will feature a wonderful list of *guest speakers http://heartlandmakerfest.org/speakers/* and set up a giant *Quadcopter Obstacle Course http://heartlandmakerfest.org/577-2/* brought to us by River City Labs Makerspace in Peoria. *Over 20 wonderful local** makers i**ncluding:* - Kunstwurfelspiel http://heartlandmakerfest.org/meet-the-makers-kunstwurfelspiel-academy-of-cr... - An Academy of Creative Coding - Society for Creative Anachronism http://heartlandmakerfest.org/meet-the-makers-society-for-creative-anachroni... - Spin your own yarn - Makerspace Urbana http://makerspaceurbana.org/ - Come learn to solder - Trashion Fashion http://heartlandmakerfest.org/meet-the-makers-trashion-fashion/ - Making fashion from trash - CUDO Plays http://heartlandmakerfest.org/meet-the-makers-cudo-plays/ - Game design competition - Central Illinois Aeprospace http://heartlandmakerfest.org/central-illinois-aerospace/ - Yup they got rockets - and many many more http://heartlandmakerfest.org/2014-makers/! *Quadcopter Obstacle Course:* Do you have a quadcopter? Well, bring it to this year’s event and give a spin through the massive obstacle course brought to you by River City Labs Makerspace http://rivercitylabs.org/ in Peoria! More details here http://heartlandmakerfest.org/577-2/. *Guest Speakers Schedule:* (Presentations will be on the stage near the center of the mall) 10:30am *Makerspace Urbana and the Heartland Maker Fest* Emily Knox *Assistant Professor, **GSLIS* 11:00am *Info City* Christopher Hamb *Founder, Director of New Media, Chrisp Media, LLC* 11:30am *Call for Participation: Collaborative Community Art* elizaBeth Simpson *Strategic Artistry * 12:00pm *Servers to your Devices, Broad Overview of the Internet* Yonathan Tulu *Software and Hardware Engineer and Organizer* 12:30pm *Why Making Matters: Stories from the Fab Lab* Jeff Ginger *Operations Manager for CU Community Fab Lab* 2:00pm *Latin American Hack Labs* Anita Chan *Assistant Professor, Media & Cinema Studies* 2:30pm *Animation, Quilting & Embroidery* Nina Paley *Animator, Artist, Free Culture Proponent* 3:00pm *Workers and Weirdos: Youth Arts Programs in the US* Tyler Denmead *Assistant Professor, Media & Cinema Studies* *More ways to connect:* Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/heartlandmakerfest Join the Event https://www.facebook.com/events/1487664831505630/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/heartlandmf *Interested in volunteering? * We still need people, sign-up here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y6maWklulCF4nHO8z-3M9ZmNFL80AvrpJTxGVRAKbq4... Or help out by sending this email along to friends! *Parking:* There is free parking around the mall at: 201 Lincoln Square https://www.google.com/maps/place/201+Lincoln+Square,+Urbana,+IL+61801+art_m... Urbana, IL 61801 https://www.google.com/maps/place/201+Lincoln+Square,+Urbana,+IL+61801+art_m... See you Saturday! Thanks!! Heartland Maker Fest Planning Committee -- ​ ​ heartlandmakerfest.org makerspaceu.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/heartlandmakerfest Twitter https://twitter.com/heartlandmf _______________________________________________ Py-CU mailing list Py-CU@lists.py-cu.org http://lists.py-cu.org/listinfo.cgi/py-cu-py-cu.org