Become a Maker Faire volunteer today. The Philadelphia Mini Maker Faire celebrates invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. This is an exciting opportunity to share and promote home-grown innovation and creation in the Philadelphia region.
We need your help to make this event an inspiring, magical experience.
Volunteer opportunities include assisting with set-up, marketing and promotion, ticket collection, answering questions, assisting with workshops and demonstrations, logistics and operations, programming, and more.
Day of event volunteers will work for a few hours and will have the rest of the day to enjoy the event with free admission. Plus a free staff t-shirt!
Volunteer Ages: Ages 14-15 can volunteer together with a parent or guardian; Ages 16-17 can volunteer on their own, but will need signed permission note from a parent or guardian; Ages 18+ can volunteer on their own.
Attendance: Volunteers must alert the Maker Faire volunteer coordinator (valerie@phillymakerfaire.com) if they will not be able to attend the event a minimum of 3 days before the Faire. This policy is needed because in most volunteer positions, we count on volunteers to show up for their shift otherwise major difficulties can ensue. For example, our Registration and Ticket sales volunteers are critical during our peak hours. And our volunteers that help makers who need a break or lunch are also critical to the success of the faire. If you can not commit to being present for a shift, please do not sign up.
Assignments: Volunteers may be reassigned to other activities as the Maker Faire organizing team determines our needs on the day of the Faire. We strive to ensure you get to work the area you sign up for, but we appreciate your flexibility and understanding if we need to assign you to another activity/area if we determine we have a need.
"The Parade of Spirits is one of my favorite Philadelphia traditions. It's like being *in* a Miyazaki movie, and that's a wonderful place to be." -- (a Mystery Participant) Make, become, and vanquish monsters. Folkfuturist-friendly.
Copeland Studio designs and builds products to enhance human mobility. Taking utilitarian products and enabling their mobility to release user potential.
The Day Cycle Clock, simulates the Philadelphia Skyline at the current time, with accurate Moon Phases, Sunrise and Sunset times. At Maker Faire, you'll be able to control the inputs and watch the display change in real time.
Check out a Carvey CNC router cutting custom designs on-site, and take part by using our CNC-carved wood block prints to make your own art to take home with you.
Temple Formula Racing is a student professional organization within Temple University's College of Engineering that uses hands-on automotive engineering skills to fully fund, prototype and assemble a formula racecar that competes internationally.
Battlebots!! Come see the combat robot SubZero who fought on the tv series that was filmed in April 2018. Ask the builder questions about the bot and how its like to fight in the battlebox. KIds, get your picture taken with this 250 lb beast!!
A team of Glass Artists will show various techniques out of a Mobile Glassblowing furnace, creating all kinds of objects, including drinking vessels to home decor, and demonstrating a variety of other techniques as well as explaining the process!
Shapes the Game is a shape stacking dexterity game with cards.