To whom it may concern. I'd like to suggest that you cover "The Maker Movement" here in Alamance County as a story (possibly with video). My name is Ben Harris and I am the founder of the Alamance Makers Guild, director of the Burlington Mini Maker Faire, and I'm actively working to build a Maker Space for Alamance County (a shared community workshop, business incubator, social spot, store, gallery, lab, and more). For my work at community building I was chosen as one of 16 "Honored Maker Attendees" invited to the first ever White House Maker Faire last June. We are now working to get communities in Alamance County on board with the Mayor's Maker Challenge (part of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Manufacturing Alliance of Communities). Last year we worked with Elon University to bring in 13 STEM oriented exhibits to the Burlington Mini Maker Faire and had other Elon Professors and Citizens exhibiting and volunteering too. Elon University is developing a Maker Space for their campus (and we are working to help them with that as well, and hope to connect their smaller program into our county wide program). Using momentum from the White House visit I'm actively working to bring together many entities within the community in a local Maker Round Table discussion later in March, and then we plan to hold a state-wide Maker Summit later in August. There are lots of connects to Elon University and the Elon Community in our group, and we see our efforts as being county wide (not tied to one city or region).
We have a lot of interesting things going on, and a lot we can talk about.
We've been covered in The Times News of Burlington, have a semi-regular column in Burlington Magazine, have been on WGHP Fox 8 news, and have been covered by the Triad Business Journal.
I'd also like to get the word out that our Burlington Mini Maker Faire for 2015 now has an active/open call for makers, every day folks, students, youth, teachers, and anyone else who has a cool project, small business, or artistic idea can come out and share with the community.
Let me know if you would like to learn more.
You can reach me at:
Ben Harris 336-506-6696 ben.harris@harris-educational.com
You can also check us out at
http://www.facebook.com/AlamanceMakersGuild
@AlamanceMakers
http://www.facebook.com/BurlingtonMiniMakerFaire
http://BurlingtonMiniMakerFaire.com
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We have a lot of interesting things going on, and a lot we can talk about.
We've been covered in The Times News of Burlington, have a semi-regular column in Burlington Magazine, have been on WGHP Fox 8 news, and have been covered by the Triad Business Journal.
I'd also like to get the word out that our Burlington Mini Maker Faire for 2015 now has an active/open call for makers, every day folks, students, youth, teachers, and anyone else who has a cool project, small business, or artistic idea can come out and share with the community.
Let me know if you would like to learn more.
You can reach me at:
Ben Harris 336-506-6696 ben.harris@harris-educational.com
You can also check us out at
http://www.facebook.com/AlamanceMakersGuild
@AlamanceMakers
http://www.facebook.com/BurlingtonMiniMakerFaire
http://BurlingtonMiniMakerFaire.com
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