Maker Faire Comes to Westport (and a town near you!)

Getting back on the video blog track with this interview with Mark Mathias.  Mark is a technology leader, often hired as CIO or CTO type to make sure that a business vision is supported with the right technology.  He's also a leader in the education space and is on the Westport CT Board of Education.

So Mark knows a lot about many different things.  Today we discussed Maker Faire, which is a series of local events organized to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset."  Westport, CT is hosting Connecticut's first Maker Faire on Saturday, April 28th at the Westport Public Library.  Click here for more details about Westport's Mini Maker Faire.

Maker Faire is part of a broader movement that is in support of solving problems with creativity and the idea of making new things that people want or need.  The online crafts platform Etsy "the world’s handmade marketplace" is another part of this movement, as is Pinterest.  If you can't come to the Mini-Maker Faire in Westport this April, check out Make Magazine (it was their idea), or the MakerFaire.com site for a Maker Faire near you.  And if enough great ideas keep getting seen and enhanced, who knows where this movement can take our economy?  A manufacturing economy needs new ideas all the time and Maker Faire is a great source for ideas.