Celebrating invention, creativity, resourcefulness, learning and doing!

Featuring both established and emerging local “makers,” the Western New York Regional Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring rockets and robots, digital fabrication, DIY science and technology, urban farming and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music, performance, local food and educational workshops and installations.

The Western New York Regional Maker Faire is very fortunate to have the Lake Shore School District as a partner for the Annual Maker Faire on Saturday, March 9th, 2024.  The Faire will be held at the Lake Shore Senior High School at 959 Beach Road, Angola NY 14006 located just 20 minutes South from downtown Buffalo and easily accessible from many communities throughout Western New York.

About Maker Faire

Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker Movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.

Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.

The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2019 celebrated its 14th annual show with over 1200 makers and more than 125,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in six years to 900+ makers and 95,000 attendees. Forty larger scale Maker Faires occur in cities around the world—Berlin, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and Shenzhen to name a few—and over 170 community-driven, independently organized Maker Faires are now being produced in the United States and in 43 other countries around the world.

Maker Faire is primarily designed to be forward-looking, showcasing makers who are exploring new forms and new technologies. But it’s not just for the novel in technical fields; Maker Faire features innovation and experimentation across the spectrum of science, engineering, art, performance and craft.

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. It’s a venue for makers to show examples of their work and interact with others about it. Many makers say they have no other place to share what they do. DIY (Do-It-Yourself) is often invisible in our communities, taking place in shops, garages and on kitchen tables. It’s typically out of the spotlight of traditional art or science or craft events. Maker Faire makes visible these projects and ideas that we don’t encounter every day.

Maker Faire is brought to you by Make Community.  Make publishes Make: magazine, produces Maker Faire, and offers DIY electronics, tools, kits, and books through its online and pop-up Maker Shed stores.

About Make: Magazine:

Make: is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. Make: unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.  

Besides the magazine and Maker Faire, Make: is:

•a vital online stream of news and projects, blog.makezine.com;

•a retail outlet for kits and books, the Maker Shed;•a steady stream of fun and instruction via our YouTube channel;

•Make: Projects, a library of projects with step-by-step instruction;

•a publisher of best-in-category titles via Make: Books, including introductions to electronics, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, Arduino and more.

Questions?  Want to talk to an organizer?  Visit our Contact page.