We continue our #SponsorThankYouWeek with an interview with Cory Bluhm, the Executive Director of Economic Development at the City of Kitchener. “If you want to make a difference in the world, you can make it in Kitchener, because this community will help you.” – Cory Bluhm The City of Kitchener has sponsored Maker Expo for the […]
Massive Maker Expo high-five to Conestoga College for supporting us with funds and some of their makers. I stopped by to see their year-old makerspace on Doon campus last week. But today, my friends, today they’re coming to you because you’ll be at Maker Expo at Kitchener City Hall and so will they. DW here. […]
DW here. Remember waaay back in June when, in collaborative maker spirit, we first started talking about hooking up Maker Expo with all the bright entrepreneur students at Laurier’s Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship? That meeting with Laura Allan, Stephen Preece, and Victoria Larke led to two amazing developments: 1. The Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship sponsored […]
Maker Expo gives a leaping high-five to The University of Waterloo and its Velocity entrepreneurship program for supporting us in delivering this event for Waterloo Region. While the Expo is free to attend, stuff does cost money, so we are only able to put together this gig for you with funding from sponsors like UW. […]
Stuff costs money: the first rule of event-making economics. DW here, and I now know that it costs about $500 to rent ten walkie-talkies for the weekend. I know that crowd control barriers are $7 per length and there’s a $79 delivery and pickup fee. Tent rental is about a hundred bucks per unit. I […]
Cam here, I wanted to take a few minutes to share an interview I did with one of our sponsors: THEMUSEUM. THEMUSEUM and I have been connected for nearly three years now — ever since I founded MakerClub with my wife and son and THEMUSEUM offered to support us unconditionally. When I asked if they […]