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Akron Makes
Saturday, November 13
11:00am - 5:00pm
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2021-11-13 11:00:00
2021-11-13 17:00:00
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Akron Makes
This free, interactive, family-friendly event is a completely unique opportunity to engage with Akron’s curious and creative.
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This free, interactive, family-friendly event is a completely unique opportunity to engage with Akron’s curious and creative.
Since 2013, children, adults, and families have enjoyed hands-on exhibits at the Library’s annual celebration of makers. Past exhibitors have included coding, robots, drones, skee-bowl, egg drop, vortex cannon, guitar pedals, 3D printing, crafting, knitting, cosplay, modified Nerf guns and so much more!
Here's what you can find at this year's Akron Makes:
- Print making with Rubber City Prints!
- Robots with KSS Robotics!
- Needlework with Stan Hywet Needlework Guild!
- Summit DD's mobile sensory bus!
- Trains! Western Reserve Speed-MO/Free-MO will set up a huge train table and talk about how to build basic modules, create scenery, and get started on your own model train set at home in no time.
- Coding bracelets, Makey Makey and other interactive activities in our Children’s Library!
- Marshmallow and toothpick challenge in the Teen area!
- And more!
Come early to Akron Makes and attend a special screening of Hearts of Glass, an intimate portrait of social entrepreneurship at the intersection of disability rights and sustainable, local food production. The show starts at 10:30 am in the auditorium.
Interested in maker materials from the library? Check these out:
- 3D Printing and Maker Lab for Kids: Create Amazing Projects with CAD Design and STEAM Ideas by Eldrid Sequeira
- Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects: Build, Invent, Create, Discover by Smithsonian Enterprises
- Maker Genius: Creative Science Projects for Budding Geniuses by Olga Markoulides and David Ellington
- TechZone@Main: Akron-Summit County Public Library's makerspace
- Do It Yourself databases, free with a library card. Includes access to CreativeBug (thousands of art and craft lessons, graphics, templates, and recipes) and Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center
AGE GROUP: | Tween | Teen | School Age (Grades K-2) | School Age (Grades 3-5) | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | STEM & STEAM | Education | Computers & Technology |
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Drive-up Window closes fifteen minutes before the building closes for the day.
Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.
Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.
Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.
Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.