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A Maker Fest (or Maker Fair, depending on your preferred term), is an event held in your makerspace to celebrate making, share your work with your community and promote creativity. Think science fair, but with tons of hands-on activities, STEM demonstrations, robots driving around the floor and other activities. A Maker Fest can include arts and crafts projects that guests can take home, maker demonstrations, a student project showcase and more. It’s a chance to share what your maker program is like with parents, students, administration and other guests.
If you have any sort of maker program going on in your library, you can hold a Maker Fest. My very first Maker Fest was held only three and a half months after we started our makerspace, so it isn’t something where you have to have a long-running program to succeed. These events can be during school, afterschool, on the weekend or whenever works for you. I always held mine during the last conference night of the year — parents were already on campus, and it was a great way to wrap up the year
