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Your go-to comprehensive guides about maker education, impact innovation and latest programmes from MakerBay Foundation.

Standing Desk Designathon 企枱設計馬拉松

自創 – 自造 – 自主 Design – Make – Take Charge of Your Well Being Join us and and we’ll turn your innovative idea into a market product for you! Millions in the world suffer from different forms of health problems due to prolonged sitting, you might be one of

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Creative Woodwork Maker Week

Overview Making is fun! We are delighted to have hosted a group of 20 students aged 14-17 from Christian Alliance International School, to spent 5 days with us learning and making in our workshop. Every student first learnt the basic woodworking skills through building a jack in the box. The next day, students worked in groups

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合| hé | Confluence

www.bloomwrks.com/confluence “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche For Detour 2017, ‘Harmonious Chaos’, Bloom, the Hong Kong based collective of installation artists, architects and electronics specialists created the central project with their 14m high interactive walkway, ‘合| hé | confluence’. The

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Ocean Plastic Sensor

Since 1940 we’ve been producing and disposing of more and more plastic in the ocean. In 2013 alone we estimate to have produced about 300 millions of tons of plastic – the same weight of all humanity (flesh and bones) in plastic, only in one year. Plastic is toxic. Plastic

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MakerBench

MakerBay is the result of the study of many makerspaces around the world. We have helped many other organisations, schools, universities, communities, companies build innovation spaces. May it be for children, professionals, advanced research, we can help you design, build and install a space that will work for you. In

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Crossroads

www.bloomwrks.com/crossroads “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”                                                                                                                          ― Charles Baudelaire  Intersections are nodes, joints, meeting points, defining points, changes in direction. They are starting points, end points, and divergent. The

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Future Sea Craft

Hong Kong Harbour: Future Sea Craft is a design investigation addressing the rejuvenation of Hong Kong’s seaside waste material by mixing local craft with material innovation and engaging the public through collaborative design workshops. As a multidisciplinary design studio, their practice involves utilizing local materials that can be repurposed and accessed to the

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Coral Reef Laser Quadrat

https://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Quadrat-for-Coral-Reef-Mapping/ How do we measure coral reefs right now? Coral reef scientists currently use a cumbersome, intrusive mechanical quadrat. To measure coral, they need to and drop the quadrat on the coral, potentially damaging coral while trying to study and protect it. Coral take years to regenerate, yet they can

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BrAIn

“brAIn” Interactive Art Installation, Sculpture + Audio 你對人工智能的理解有幾深?你又如何看待人工智能未來的發展?今次的學生作品是透過人工智能Knarf,向你發問一些關於人工智能存在的意義和可能性的問題。裝置旁邊更設有留言板,歡迎寫下你完成迷宮後的感受。 地點|Verandah H5D, 5/F 荷里活座 This installation aims to give visitors an immersive experience of being inside an AI or neural network. Visitors will be able to interact by pressing on the “nerves” leading to more questions about human existence and the countless

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Ms. Angie Zhou

Education Specialist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angie Zhou is an Education Specialist at MIT App Inventor. She was the founder and CEO of Dreams Come True in Shenzhen, where she developed online coding courses for kids. She also has previous curriculum development, teaching and staff training experience at First Code Academy in Hong Kong.