Congrats on a great inaugural event. Extremely well done.
- David Bradbury, Director for Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies
Wow, what a fun event! My only regret was not finding more time to walk around to visit other Makers!
- John Mangan
What a great day! Thank you all. Let’s stay in touch.
- Jenn Karson, Sesamedia New Media
Congratulations on the apparently successful birth of the Champlain Mini Maker’s Faire. I have heard nothing but great things from participants and attendees. There was truly something for everyone. I particularly enjoyed the gentleman that made the 12 foot long 12 pound canoe with carbon fiber string and a skin of coated Dacron. John, I may have mentioned to you that I spent my senior year of college building a wood strip fiberglass canoe (18 feet and 80 pounds) rather than studying which meant that I needed to also spend the summer making up a couple of credits to officially graduate. Anyway this experience makes me particularly interested in small craft building projects. Turns out there are a “boatload” no pun intended of plans on the internet for Dacron skinned small craft. Let me know how I can help in future years. This deserves to be an annual event.
- Cairn G. Cross, Co-Founder and Managing Director, FreshTracks Capital I and II
Despite the weather, I think that you did a great job with the Maker Faire. Everyone with whom I spoke loved it! Thank you for all your hard work on this.
- Domenico Grasso, Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont
Great job. The people I took had a ball – really worthwhile.
- Angelo Pizzagalli, Pizzagalli Properties, LLC
Congratulations on a spectacular event on Saturday. The energy of everyone there that I talked to was very high and great to see. Clearly there is traction for this type of event here in Vermont. Hopefully Saturday’s event will be the first of what becomes an annual series. I am glad that Champlain could play a role with it.
- David Finney, President, Champlain College
Wow…what a great time at the Maker Faire! The energy was amazing, and everyone I talked with was thrilled at the format and turnout. Was great to see the FIRST teams front and center. Looking forward to this years teams coming together at UVM. I thought the idea of dry-running the game with utensils was brilliant!
My kids had a great time checking out all the cool stuff. Your team did a great job making everything extra kid friendly, and it was great that SparkFun donated all the free kits. All the kids at the soldering table were laser focused on their projects…I’m sure you cultivated plenty of future makers! Bigger plans for next year?
- Jeff Maling, IBM
It was great to see you Saturday at Shelburne Farms. I thought that you, John Abele and the rest of your team did a terrific job in pulling off this event. Judging from the turnout, I expect this will be the first of many such Faire’s! And Dean Kamen’s speech was outstanding. He is one of the few geniuses who is also a gifted communicator.
- Bill Symonds, Director, Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education
We had a really good time and we a very impressed with the VT scene. I am hearing good things via our website already and congratulations on a great event, we can hardly wait till next year.
- Jeff Branson, SparkFun Electronics, Denver CO
What a great job you and your team did to pull that off.
- Christopher W. Davis, Manager, Meach Cove Trust
