Maker Faire, returns to Rome the great innovation fair – The Messenger

Not only an exhibition but an innovation park where there are drones and robots, home automation, 3D printing and digital manufacturing, not born in the laboratories of large companies but in small workshops where an army of Italian and European creatives realize their vision of the future . The Maker Faire, the digital artisans fair, returns for the fourth time this year in the capital and widens. After the Auditorium Parco della Musica and La Sapienza, the 20016 edition October 14 to 16 will occupy the Fiera di Roma: more than 100 thousand square meters available to makers and users.

Presented today at the Ministry of Education, the event promoted by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome he reaches out to schools. The “Call for Schools” calls the institutions of a second national and European able to submit by May 20, their projects. They will be selected 55, which will be exhibited at the fair in an area dedicated to the schools. “We are happy that innovation is in the house of the school and continuing education,” said Education Minister Stefania Giannini, recalling the 28 million announced yesterday to provide a third of elementary and middle schools of Italian Fab Lab with 3D printers, kits for robotics and computer programming. To these, he announced, will join “40 million of structural funds that will come from Pon”.

Another call is the “Call for Projects Big Bang”, which invites makers exploit the large exhibition space to build whole pieces of the fair: exhibitions, attractions, exhibitions, runs and aviaries for drones. The Maker Faire, with its 600 exhibitors, “will be a great a theme park where to have fun and see the future,” said Riccardo Luna, editor of the trade fair and the Digital Champion Renzi government. New this year will be a series of events in Italy and the EU approach to the fair. These include the European Week Maker, European Week of makers that “will be celebrated in 28 countries with events in schools, businesses and mini-fairs”, said Massimo Banzi, curator of the exhibition and Arduino co-founder.