Loudoun’s maker movement gathered at Leesburg Executive Airport to swap ideas and show off innovation Tuesday, June 21.
Artists, inventors, and musicians shared their work, much assembled at their own homes or businesses. The “maker movement,” they said, will reshape the world more even than the internet.
“If you haven’t been involved in the maker movement, tonight is a great chance to dip your toes in the water,” said Loudoun County Department of Economic Development Small Business and Entrepreneurship Manager Vanessa Jozwiak.
“The world’s going to go there one way or another,” said Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Innovations Officer Bobby F. Keener Jr. “Why don’t we start it?
Four-year-old Avarie Trinidad, a drum major, leads the fife and drum corps of the Linton Hall School in Bristow, Virginia. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Joe Travez holds a type of fastener developed for astronauts by his company, Prototype Productions, in Ashburn. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Ravi Gangele, Raven founder, with a hexacopter carrying his company’s drone operating system. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Drums from the Linton Hall School’s fife and drum corps. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
A 3-D printer from Gum Spring Library printing. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Steven Ross, executive director of The Youth Knowledge Enrichment Center (TYKE) in Leesburg, holds a robot assembled by TYKE students. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Roy Wulf plays a 3-D printed violin assembled by members of the Carolina Philharmonic. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
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Fife players from The Linton Hall School’s fife and drum corps. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Bobby F. Keener Jr., Chief Technology Innovations Officer of the Virginia Department of Education. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Glass art created by artist Dario Dehoyos. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
A robot assembled by students at TYKE in Leesburg. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
Carolina Philharmonic Artistic Director David Michael Wolff with Linton Hall School fife player Roy Wulf, demonstrating a 3-D printed violin. (Renss Greene/Loudoun Now)
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