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Hello, all:

We just finished an incredible week at NY Hall of Science.  First of the Open Hardware Summit (http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/), then  World Maker Faire, followed by a symposium on making and education sponsored by NSF and the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House.

25,000 people came to NYSCI in one weekend for World Maker Faire, about 5 times our best weekends ever.  If you haven't experienced Maker Faire in San Mateo, its hard to describe.  Kind of anarcho-steampunk-arduino-robotic-extreme knitting crowd, if you can picture that (I certainly couldn't have before I saw it.)  Like burning man, but more scienc-y and you can go home at night.  The audience was a complete mix of geeks, families, local follks, and everything in between

Also there were incredible talks by Steven Wolfram, Chris Anderson, Tom Igoe, and many many more.

The Open Hardware Summit was a gathering of almost 300 of the leaders in the new world of open source hardware and software.  It is an amazing new movement of people making everything from circuit boards to cars and giving away the designs.  Utopian, Quixotic, and totally inspiring.

Anyway, you can see pics of World Maker Faire and more at http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldmakerfaire2010

The Maker Faire people are the best, they completely opened our eyes to the real power of community and informal, lifelong learners.  I can't say enough about them and the movement they are nurturing.

Can you tell I am still buzzed? 

Sorry to miss you all at ASTC, too much going on on the home front.

Eric Siegel




Eric Siegel
Director and Chief Content Officer
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
(718) 699 - 0005 x 317
www.nyscience.org

World Maker Faire came to NYSCI this September!
http://makerfaire.com/

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