Schedule - Saturday

PRESENTATION

SCIENCE BUSKERS STAGE, *SCAPE WAREHOUSE

Kiki Tay’s Lights, Lasers & Magic! Creating Special Effects!
Kiki Tay

Kiki Tay is a professional Magician, Illusionist and Special Effects designer. In this presentation, Kiki Tay shares how his obsession with lights lasers and robotics led him to design and create amazing props, gadgets and special effects used in his performances!

PRESENTATION

DIY Life: Lifehacking 101
James Norris, Self Spark

This will be a highly practical, fun, and science-based interactive session on “hacking your life”. The aim will be to maximize your personal growth, with the minimal amount of effort. It’s family-friendly and open to people of all ages.

WORKSHOP

Bookbinding 101
Pooja Makhijani

We’ll discuss the tools and materials for bookbinding and explore adhesives, paper types and uses, and grain for paper and book cloth. You’ll learn about a variety of structures and make a very unique concertina bound book, perfect for a journal or an album.

Fully Booked!
Registration is now closed. To be put on the waiting list, please email your full name and telephone number to [email protected].

WORKSHOP

Eco Friendly Jewelry Making
Green Issues by Agy

Get creative by making jewelry from items you can find in your home - fabric and plastic bottles. Participants learn about upcycling, jewelry techniques and take home a necklace and a pair of earrings. All materials are provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own special fabric or bottles to upcycle. Ideal for ages 10 and up.

Fee: $23/participant
Limited places available, pre-register to confirm a slot
Walk-ins accepted if there are slots left on the day itself.

PRESENTATION

Starting a Sustainable Business to Sell Your Product
Looi Qin En

Inspired by the Maker Faire to start your own business to sell your product? Learn from our youth entrepreneur speaker who draws from his entrepreneurial experiences across 5 start-ups on how to start your business from ground-up! During the presentation, we will share case studies of local successful startups and walk you through the entire process of starting a sustainable business at low cost!

WORKSHOP

Developing & Validating a Product which Customers Are Willing to Pay For
Looi Qin En

Do you think your showcase product is worth selling? Want to develop a product which people are willing to pay for? Come, join our workshop where we introduce to you lean startup methodologies.

Fee: Free
No pre-registration required, slots on a first-come-first-served basis.

FORUM

Maker Forum
Facilitator: William Hooi, Science Centre Singapore

All makers, tinkerers, hackers, crafters, artists and DIYers are invited to join us for the Maker Forum for an evening of conversation and socializing. There will be brief presentations by maker-participants and invited speakers on the extent of maker activities/culture among various maker communities in Singapore and internationally. We hope that the forum will help to spark new ideas and collaboration to foster a creative and innovative DIY maker culture in Singapore.

Speaker and topic list:

• Bunnie Huang (Why Singapore is better than the US for hardware Makers)
• James Chan & team (Get Hacking, Singapore - http://www.motochan.com/2013/06/22/hazecast/)
• Veera & Ibnur (community tinkering at SL2)
• Jason Koh (crafting /cosplay pop-culture)
• Liyana Sulaiman (founder, Girls in Tech –encouraging ladies to geek out)
• Michelle Lye (On Software, Hardware, and being a Female Engineer)
• Denisa Kera (OSHW tinkering in Yogyakarta: supporting Open Science in the Global South)
• Silvia Lindtner (Hacking & hackerspace in China)

Fee: Free
FULL HOUSE!