In 2013, we were back, this time as exhibitors of compressed air rockets, the Air Rocket Glider prototypes alongside Rick & Angie Schertle & family, and we were exited to explore the Faire a second time. Our family had a great time, and made many new friends.

Lauren ran the launcher for a while, teaching adults and kids how it worked.

Sean taught our friends from Brooklyn Aerodrome how to build rockets.

We even launched a functional NASA "chipsat" on a paper rocket, and also on one of our planes.

We returned to Queens to the World Maker Faire again with our now successful air rocket company, Air Rocket Works.

We all had a great time checking out the projects, pitching in at our rocket building and launching exhibit, but the highlight of this trip was meeting Grant Imahara in person.

Our Air Rocket Works LLC business partner, Rick Schertle and his family have been exhibiting at the Bay Area Maker Faire since 2007. In 2017, we decided to join them, so we took a week long cross country trip to San Francisco. We took several days ahead of the Faire to see the amazing city, and had a busy weekend helping with the rocket launching and exploring the considerably larger Faire. I caught up with several former co-workers who had moved out to the area, and now work at Google and Apple. One big difference was that we noticed that the Bay Area Faire is far more relaxing than the NY Faire.

We also made time to explore San Francisco and got back to Muir Woods, which was still amazing. We let Lauren be our tour guide one day, and Sean the next. It made for a really fun trip.

We have been helping to organize the NH Maker Faire for the last 5 years, and exhibiting several items over the years. We've had our rockets at every event, in one form or another. Lauren has demonstrated a couple of our 3D printers, had activities for younger kids, and showed some of her 3D printed and machined jewelry. Sean has shown his paper airplane launcher, and his marshmallow cannon, and helped out with rockets every year.

My old Google+ entry after our first NH Maker Faire, Aug. 24th, 2013:

We had a great time exhibiting at the Dover NH Maker Faire today! It was at the Dover Children's Museum, and was easily twice as busy as was expected.

Lauren & Sean each had their own table showing their creations. Lauren was running our little Makerbot 3D printer, printing and handing out buttons & "Maker Coins" that she and I designed - over 150 at last count!! Sean's had a great time describing his RC "Towel" plane, and other rocket creations, and also helping me launch water rockets, "Super Stomp Rockets" and of course our ARG (Air Rocket Glider) in the park behind the museum. The ARG will hopefully be in an upcoming issue of MAKE!

It was a great preview of next month when we head to the NY Maker Faire!

http://makerfaire.com/makers/transforming-air-rocket-glider/

We took a road trip to DC for the second Maker Faire in that area. When we had applied, we had hoped it would be in a bit more of a prominent location like the previous year near the White House, however, it was quite a small faire. We still met lots of great makers, and had a great time. Sean is pictured above instructing some visitors on the use of his paper airplane launcher.

We participated at the first York Maine Maker Faire in 2018. It was held in an old historic mill building, and we had setup in a 20' x 80' indoor space, with hula-hoops and a curtain wall to stop the rockets, and we were launching nearly horizontal (as you can see in the picture). It worked surprisingly well. I still need to order and build some of our own Pelican cases with all the materials we need to attend an event.