Our Workshop schedule for Austin Mini Maker Faire 2014 is now up! All workshops are free with admission unless otherwise noted. You may sign up to participate in advance, though some seats will be saved to be given away on a first come, first served basis at the start of each class.
Hula Hoop Making 101
Hula-Hooping is awesome!
Making your own custom hoop is awesome!
Craft your own hoop with various tubings and colorful tape supplied by Miss Laura – founder of HoopCircle – an Austin company that teaches and promotes “Hooping!”
($20 supply fee for this workshop)
Culturebooster
Attend our fun, interactive workshop and learn how to support your mini-maker’s business dreams. Kids and adults will learn and role-play the basic steps to follow when testing whether your invention or service has real-world value and can help solve problems for others. Come learn how focusing on your personal strengths through a business can be a source of joy for you, while making the world a better place!
Something From Nothing: Fruit Scrap Vinegar Fermentation with Kate Payne of Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
Learn how to utilize fruit scraps–peels, cores, leftover mash–to ferment distinctive, flavored live-cultured vinegars. Learn methods and tricks for making strawberry, apple, blueberry, peach, and many other types of vinegars. Participants will gain an understanding of the two stages of fermenting vinegars, health benefits of incorporating raw, live vinegars and how to craft small-scale batches at home. Kate will also discuss how to use these homemade vinegars in creative ways.
RASPBERRY PI INTRO CLASS – ADULTS AND KIDS AGES 13+
This isn’t your grandma’s Raspberry Pi! In this introductory class, you’ll learn how to control LEDs using the Raspberry Pi. We will code using the popular Python programming language.