Update Apr. 23, 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us to make the Earth Day of Makerfest special.
Prizes have been awarded and winners have been contacted directly.
We look forward to seeing you at MakerFest 2025!
New for 2024 - a Special Earth Day Edition of MakerFest in partnership with Grand Traverse County RecycleSmart!
This year we'll have our annual celebration of Making and all things STEAM, PLUS lots of additional great activities and information related to Earth Day. Find all the fun indoors(!) - and perhaps some outdoors. Join us - it's all FREE!
Grand Traverse County Civic Center April 20 10 am - 2 pm
Join us at Howe Arena for the latest and greatest celebration of Making and all things STEAM, in combination with our friends from the Recycle Smart Earth Day event! Get ready for a special green edition of the event, including as much upcycling, repurposing, and recycling as possible. (Scroll to the bottom of this page for an event map.)
GETTING THERE
In the spirit of Earth Day (and to help make things easy due to parkway construction) we strongly suggest carpooling or using other transportation (like biking or riding BATA). Find the free (hop-on, hop-off) Bayline route here. Add your family name to a leaf and post it on our Earth Tree for traveling green! For routes on getting around construction, please visit Traverse City's Grandview Parkway page.
PRIZES
Pick up a BINGO card as you enter and be sure to enter into our hourly drawings after you complete 6 squares.
- We are giving away a $50 gift card to Oryana as well as a STEM Kit at the top of each hour (11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm and 2 pm).
- At the TADL 3D table you can sign up to win a wooden frog instrument too!
We would also like to thank our event sponsor, Oryana Community Co-op, for their donation of gift cards for our hourly prizes, as well as food and beverages for our exhibitors.
FOOD
The concession stand inside the Civic Center, Hangry's, will be open during our event.
EXHIBITORS
Please note - list is subject to change! Links designate event sponsors.
- Littles Area (2 - 6)
- 5toONE / Great Start Northwest Ed
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
- The Great Lakes Children's Museum
- TADL Youth Services
- General Area (7 - 100+)
- 1711 Raptor Robotics (TC Central)
- Autmow
- Bay Area Recycling for Charities
- The Beat Lab
- Brothers Tree Service and Garden Center
- Carter's Compost
- Cherryland Ghostbusters
- Challenge Island Northwest Michigan
- Cherryland Amateur Radio Club
- Cherryland Ghostbusters
- The Dennos Museum
- East Bay Branch Library (TADL)
- Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore
- Goodwill NMI Food Rescue
- Grand Traverse Audubon Club
- Grand Traverse Conservation District
- Grand Traverse County Health Department
- Grand Traverse Historical Weapons Guild
- Grand Traverse Citizens Climate Lobby
- GT Butterfly House & Bug Zoo
- Inland Seas Education Association
- Interlochen Arts Academy
- Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Forest Resources Division)
- Michigan Legacy Art Park
- Michigan State University Extension - Leelanau County
- MiSTEM Network
- North Country Trail
- Oryana Community Co-op
- Pebble Pups (Grand Traverse Rock Hounds)
- Quarkmine
- Recycle Smart (Welcome/reception area)
- Ropemaker Joe Simon
- SEEDS Ecology and Education Centers
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
- TADL - 3D Printing
- TADL - Sight & Sound
- TADL Teen Services
- TADL Youth Services (materials donated by Bay Area Recycling for Charities)
- Traverse City Fire Department
- Traverse City Light & Power
- United States Forest Service
- USS Septarian crew
- VegMichigan
- Trucks (outside the north end of the Arena)
- Bear Force One (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore)
- TADL Bookmobile
- TC Light and Power
- (tent.) Ghostbusters Ectomobile
