The Maker Faire is a celebration of our students and our school’s community as makers and creative thinkers.

What is the 276 Maker Faire

Our maker faire was established as a show-and-tell for the Fab Lab classes and Library clubs. In Fab Lab, students engage in projects focused on an idea of a more  inclusive and sustainable world. They work on addressing the needs of communities, small and large, by following the Design Thinking Process in all the projects. Through the process, learners develop intrinsic strengths such as confidence in dealing with complexity and open-ended problems, attention to details, persistence in working with difficult problems, tolerance for ambiguity, independence of thought and decision making, and ability to work and communicate with others to achieve a common goal or solution. Students acquire and apply academic skills while collaborating on creating real-life solutions.

The Maker Faire continues to be an exciting event. Students are deeply involved in planning and running the event, and besides showcasing students’ work done in Fab Lab classes,  library clubs, as well as art classes, visitors will have an opportunity to engage in various unplugged activities that exercise students’ problem solving skills and creativity, tap into their scientific thinking, and expose them to new skills.

What to Expect This Year

Here are some highlights of the activities and presentations that you can expect at the BPC School Maker Faire 2026.

• 8th Grade Fab Lab Elective - Cart for art teachers designed, engineered, and produced through a collaboration of the students and Boyce Technologies company.

• Other examples of Fab Lab projects made in wood, and other materials

• 4th and 6th grade - Cardboard and poster projects

• Sewing and knitting activities and samples of club projects

• STEM activities including cells, static electricity, marble run, and cardboard construction

• Get designing - Jewelry making, weaving, and student-made temporary tattoos

• Inventive Treats

• Raffles and more

Sustainable Economy - We Sell What We Make

To raise funds for Fab Lab and library clubs, we sell what we make and offer engaging activities for a small price. We also often use recycled materials and materials donated by companies and organizations that otherwise would be discarded. Bring cash to enjoy all that we have to offer and help us continue the programs. 

276 Library Mission

If we look closely at the natural world, we see there is no one way of being. Diversity is not only beautiful and inspiring, but it is also necessary.  It is necessary in the natural ecosystem as well as in the human-made one. Not only is it essential to our and the planet’s physical health, but it is also essential for healthy minds and societies. If we believe there is only one right way to be, think, look, love, or solve problems, we create unjust societies, prejudice, and inequality. By keeping our minds open, flexible, and inquisitive, we see a world of possibilities, we see the world as it is, and at the same time, we allow others to fully access these possibilities.

In the library, we seek views, perspectives, knowledge, understandings, emotions, and realities of the world. In the space for our makers, we seek knowledge, experiences, understandings, skills, problems, and solutions that undermine the idea that there is only one way to make something, one way of thinking about a problem or solution. We embrace the ambiguity and complexity of our world with ingenuity and boldness.

As we acquire knowledge, skills, and new understandings through the library programs, our minds are more flexible and ready for the discomfort and work required to see the world as it is, and to live joyfully within it as just, creative, and problem-solving human beings.

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