Exhibits
Red Bull Racing – Formula 1 Car
Get up close and personal with the RB18, the 2022 Constructors’ and Drivers’ winning car! Take a picture with the car, have a sample of Red Bull, and learn about Red Bull Showrun - coming to Lower Broadway on October 14th from 12-2pm!
Adventure Science Center
Design, build, and test a dancing Bristlebot! This little robot comes to life by connecting a battery to a motor. Will your Bristlebot go in a straight line or in circles? Test it out! This activity can take up to 10 minutes to complete.
Intro to Lockpicking
A hands on intro to lockpicking and lock mechanics. Opening locks without needing keys!
Marbling Art by Jimmy Sears
Attendees aged 5+ (or younger with supervision) may float colors over a thickened liquid surface to be printed onto paper, for free (limit 1 per attendee). Once dried after ~1-2 hr your art will be ready to go! A limited number of pieces by Jimmy Sears will be on display and/or for sale.
Studio NPL
Studio NPL is an innovative, technology-driven learning environment for teens ages 12-18. Daily workshops are mentor-led and focus on building 21st Century Skills in STEAM, digital literacy, and career readiness. Whether you want to be an engineer, filmmaker, graphic artist, musician, or anything else, Studio NPL has resources and the nurturing environment for teens to explore and engage their passions.
Shatterproof Media, LLC
Our entertainment and event coverage solutions can be scaled to fit any size event anywhere in the world. From an office party photo booth to a major high-volume marketing opportunity that employs registration and multiple photo-op stations, our team is ready to handle it. Whether you need a custom designed graphic overlay for your souvenir photo prints or the integration of a green screen photo booth with an existing installation, we can do it. Need customized branded emails delivered instantly to your attendees? We can do that, too.
Lipscomb Academy iWonder
Students from Lipscomb Academy will be sharing what they learn in their makerspace at school. They will share how they 3D print, use cardboard in creative ways, personal projects and more!
Middle Tennessee Robotic Arts Society (MTRAS)
Makers & Tinkerers who use technology to solve problems, educate and entertain. While our emphasis is on robotics, our members span many interests and projects from combat robots thru automation and movie props thru interactive art exhibits.
Make a Custom LED
LEDs mostly all look alike, but they don't have to! Give a regular LED a hot glue glow up, then take your new creation home to use in other projects.
Climate Story Quilts
Climate change is impacting communities across the globe through rising temperatures, sea level rise, droughts, floods, and extreme weather. However, we have the power to creatively tell the story of building a just, sustainable future. In this project, students will make a story quilt showing the impacts of climate change as well as climate solutions and resilience.
Radical Shoots
Radical Shoots develops low-cost data collection and automation hardware and software to empower small-scale and urban agriculture. An ag-tech start-up, Radical Shoots also grows and delivers specialty produce as the boutique farm, CC Gardens Microgreens. We work with chefs across the city and open the doors of our greenhouse retail store at Nashville Farmers Market every weekend to offer free samples, live-harvested microgreens and educational workshops.
Experience Immersive Augmented Reality
Join us for a fun experience with immersive Augmented Reality! You will get to interact with a virtual bird and play a virtual piano.
Nashville Origami Club
The Nashville Origami Club is a group that promotes the art and craft of paper folding in middle TN. Often associated with Japan, origami is an art that has developed in many countries around the world and is different from most other art forms because it is a transformative art that uses creases to shape the paper instead of adding or removing material the way most other art forms do.
Chewy & Star Wars Cosplay
Come see some of your favorite Star Wars characters wandering around the event, and take pictures with them!
Turnip Green x Southwest Airlines leather Project
Turnip Green Creative Reuse partners with Southwest Airline, for their Purpose With Purpose Program. This program allows TGCR to received truckloads of retired Southwest Airlines seats, and repurpose them to keep the material out of the landfill, and to put them in the hands of creative people, students, teachers and other community members. Create with us!
VINSE: Nanoscale Making
Making tiny things matters! Join the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering for interactive demos with strange sand, jello-like pipes, plants and plant-inspired materials, and multilayer stencils like nano-scientists use.
Wond'ry Mechanical Makerspace
Assemble Cardboard Rockets
Oakley STEM Center at Tennessee Tech
Come and enjoy a hands-on STEM activity.
SIAD - Simulator for Individualized and Adaptive Driving
SIAD is a research project developed by the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lab (RASL) at Vanderbilt. It enables adolescents and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder to practice and learn to drive in a safe, immersive environment. Additionally, it allows us to collect quantitative metrics about driver performance in order to inform driver training.
not your old cardigan
Handmade crochet and knit items.
Journey to Venus Sustainable Living
Hand Crafted Native American products: sage bundles, handmade incense, sacred shawls, and wraps made from recycled materials. Bathe in our ancient medicine with our hand-crafted organic deodorants, healing salves, Healing Teas, detox scrubs, soaps and more. Elevate your spirit through the essence of sacred moon water, meticulously crafted from 17 herbs celebrated for their purifying, manifesting, and meditative properties. Embark on a journey of indigenous crafts, curated for soulful healing and connection.
Large Format 3D Printing
With a build volume of 4’ x 4’ x 4’ (yes, feet!), large format 3D printing can produce objects at a much larger scale than your typical MakerBot. This exhibit will feature 3D printed furniture created through both traditional design techniques and AI-driven modeling. Come take a seat in the 3D printed chair and learn about how we feed the hungry extruder recycled plastics to create functional designs.
The Forge Nashville
A refuge where creatives forge their dreams... Woodshop, Metal Shop, DiGiFab Lab, Private & Scholarship Art Studios, Gallery & Classes
Vandy Vanity
Vandy Vanity is an inclusive fashion organization hosted on Vanderbilt University's campus. Each spring, we host a fashion show to showcase pieces created by professional designers as well as student designers. The pieces we have displayed were designed by some of the student designers of Vandy Vanity's Design Team for this year's show: Cyberphilia.
Just For You Candle Co.
An eclectic mix of home goods, handmade in Nashville out of upcycled materials. Items range from candles in ceramic mugs to hydroponic plant pots and drinking glasses made from glass bottles. Stop by to ask me how everything is made!
Couture Technologies: AI-Powered Apparel Fitting
Couture Technologies is developing a cutting edge AI-powered virtual fitting technology designed to get online shoppers into the right fit, the first time. Come experience this technology with garments from Nashville-based luxury basics brand, Freedom Company.
Earthen Glass by Erica
Earthen Glass sells nature-inspired suncatchers and wall hangings that will beautifully capture the radiant play of natural light through your windows. Erica Scarpitti, the artist behind Earthen Glass, is a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Vanderbilt University. The TN Maker Fest is the first craft show she is selling her work at!
Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville
The Arts & Business Council is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that leverages and unites the unique resources of the arts and business communities to create a thriving, sustainable creative culture in Nashville.
Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab
Our exhibit will highlight past projects for NASA's Annual University Student Launch Initiative. Vanderbilt participates every year NASA's competition which demands the development, testing, and flight a robotic or flight-based payload. The project combines many 3D-printed materials, conventionally-machined parts, CNC-machined machined parts, composite materials, and off-the-shelf components and will be interesting for any maker!
The Guitar Players Chair
Introducing the Guitar Players Chair, Version 2.0! A revolution for both the player and the audience. Functional Sculpture at its Finest!
For Goodness Cakes - Nashville
Our mission at For Goodness Cakes is to give individual youth at least one special moment that is about them. By providing a child a treat made especially for them, it gives them some much needed time to not feel the increasing pressure of their socioeconomic situation, but rather help nurture optimism and confidence at a critical age. We help to do this by matching volunteers to make and hand deliver birthday and graduation cakes to children in foster care on their special day.
Antioch High School - TSA
Antioch High School's students are participating in the Technology Student Association (TSA). This allows students to enhances personal development, leadership, and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), whereby members apply and integrate these concepts through intracurricular activities, competitions, and related programs. Students would be showcasing projects from the previous years competitions.
DIY High Speed 3D Printing with Engineering Materials
Custom 3D printers designed for speeds 5-10x faster than typical consumer-grade printers. Designed for use with advanced, high temperature and fiber-reinforced plastics.
Ovyl
Hardware starts here. We make high-end, high-tech devices for disruptive startups and fortune 500's alike.
FAB Lab, Wond'ry
The Wond'ry FAB Lab exhibitors will be artists and designers who design and make clothing and accessories that represent transformation from purely aesthetic-based to serving environmental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. Fashion on display will include: 1) sustainably sourced and produced 2)adaptive pieces created to serve people with physical disabilities 3) garments that provide stress-relief through a variety of built-in features.
Katherine Webb Ceramics
Katherine Webb is a current Biomedical Engineering PhD student at Vanderbilt University and in her free time, she is obsessed with ceramics! Come learn about the basics of ceramics and explore beautiful, custom pottery creations
Allyria's Boutique & Creations
Affordable handmade fashion accessories. Tote bags, makeup bags, pencil pouches, purses, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets all locally and sustainably made.
Wooden Yarn Handcrafts
Handcrafted items from wood and yarn Cutting boards, scarves, serving trays, blankets, charcuterie boards.
Asulon Collective Coffee Cart
Asulon Collective is focused on "Cultivating Connection through Craft Coffee!" // Enjoy single-origin coffee from Guatemala and engage in conversation with unique conversation cards to foster connection together. // Book the coffee cart for your next event!
The Honey Collective
A community of small-scale beekeepers working together to steward healthy honeybee populations and provide consumers with a reliable source of responsibly produced, transparently sourced, high-quality honey.
Fiber Explorations
Discover the world of fiber arts through spinning, weaving, dyeing and bead work.
Innovation & Design Strategy
The Innovation & Design Strategy team at the Wond'ry will be presenting some of its works on Quantum Computing and TJbot.
Charmed by Phillipa
I specialize in unique and charming bracelets, keychains, and hair pins made by hand. My creative designs are perfect as gifts, stocking stuffs, or a treat for yourself.
Vanderbilt Design Studio
The Design Studio is a student-run workshop located in Featheringill Hall. Volunteer student mentors monitor the space and assist users with their creations. Our resources include 5 Ultimaker 3D printers, power tools, and circuitry components.
Rhigri Arts
Handmade ceramics and art prints available for purchase. All art is made by Rhianna Gribbin.
Reclamation
We are an eight-person collective based at Vanderbilt University. Our work is centered around using the found, scavenged, gathered and forgotten to tell stories through abstraction. By transforming, manipulating, questioning and challenging our materials, we create communicative vessels that both share our ideas and present repurposed items in unexpected ways.
HempWood
Where Sustainability Meets Healthy Building Materials
East Nashville Transmitters
Come see and learn about various electronics
ALVY Candles
Fun and cute hand poured soy pillar candles.
Blood Assurance
Education about blood donation
Mold It - Custom Molded Crayons
Custom molded crayons for every holiday and occasion in between
Jeff Glancy Designs
I bought my first 3D printer in 2016 and always enjoy designing practical 3D prints. I started selling some of my 3D printed designs online in 2018. They now include a host of essential oil organizers/racks/carriers. Some other designs include a makeup palette rack and cotton round holders.
Vanderbilt University Center for Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology
We design, develop, build, control and test next-generation assistive devices, such as prosthetic limbs, robotic exoskeletons and smart clothing; in order to restore health, mobility and independence to individuals with disabilities.
How to Make (Almost) Anything and Make it Matter
See past projects and ideas that were developed and prototyped during the course.
LuAnn Graber Art
Art That Captures Life's Best Moments
nashville.s.and.p
Local Nashville mom handcrafting beautiful jewelry and nature inspired items with my 2 teenagers. We started making jewelry during the pandemic and discovered it a new passion. The family that crafts together stays together.
Child Studies Group
The Child Studies Group is a nonprofit research group in the Department of Psychology & Human Development at Vanderbilt University. We are composed of over a dozen faculty and numerous undergraduate, professional, and graduate students. We volunteer at community events to offer free, child-friendly activities such as developmentally appropriate crafts or games.
Life's a Stitch and Knitting Workshops
Associated with the Fiber Arts Build Lab at the Wond'ry we offer opportunities to learn how to knit to students and the greater Vanderbilt community.
Sam Myers Pottery
Handmade ceramics for sale
Graham Street Ext
Candle maker