Three Connecticut manufacturing heavyweights have partnered with Tunxis Community College and industry officials to start the first Greater Hartford Mini-Maker Faire.
Maker Faire is a global celebration of inventiveness, encouraging people to use their ideas to make objects that could be useful to society. The first Maker Faire started in 2006 in San Francisco and bills itself as the Greatest Show & Tell on Earth.
Greater Hartford manufacturers Lego, Stanley Black & Decker and Legrand agreed to be the corporate sponsors of the first Mini-Maker Faire in Greater Hartford, which will take place Oct. 3 at Tunxis Community College in Farmington.
The Farmington event will showcase robotics, 3D printing, musical instruments, wearable art, radios, paper creations, mobility resources and mosquito-fighting devices. Attendees to the free event are encouraged to build at the exhibits.
The event is the brainchild of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association and the Connecticut College of Technology’s Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, which seeks to train workers for high-level manufacturing jobs.
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