Posted on 06/23/2014 4:46:08 AM PDT by YourAdHere
President Obama hosted the first ever White House Maker Faire June 18.
Obama toured the exhibits on the White House lawn, meeting students, entrepreneurs, engineers and researchers, who are using new tools and techniques to launch businesses, develop advances in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and be in the vanguard of a grassroots renaissance in American manufacturing.
It featured more than 100 Makers—the White House term for people who “love to ‘Make’ stuff–from more than 25 states and included more than 30 exhibits. The president toured a sampling of the exhibits that White House officials said represent a broad range of creativity and ingenuity unlocked by the Maker movement.
Following his tour of the White House Maker Faire, Obama, in remarks to the audience of entrepreneurs, students, business leaders, mayors, and heads of non-profit organizations, said the surge in “making stuff” echoes the nation tradition of tinkering and inventing. 17 year old Darius McCoy, tunes up his hand-built 3D printer.
“Our parents and our grandparents created the world’s largest economy and strongest middle class not by buying stuff, but by building stuff , by making stuff, by tinkering and inventing and building, by making and selling things first in a growing national market and then in an international market stuff “Made in America,”
Obama said during his remarks to the crowd. Obama also announced new steps by the administration to increase the ability of more Americans, young and old, to have access to these tools and techniques and to bring their ideas to life. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Simon Hauger, right, Principle at Workshop school in Philadelphia, as he is shown a Biodiesel car students built.
Among the efforts being launched included helping Makers launch new businesses and create jobs, with more than 13 federal agencies and companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Local Motors offering Makers a suite of support services. The initiative includes expanded access to start-up grants, strong relationships with American manufacturers and major retailers, and business mentoring and training.
He also challenged Makers to tackle their most pressing problems, from new tools that will aid in patient care, to hardware that will help probe the frontiers of outer space, to the development of low-cost technologies that can improve the livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people. -
After payingour taxes and medical premium....there’s nothing left to buy goods. Even the fridge is looking a little emptier than last year.
“Makers”
Not inventors, designers, builders, fabricators or manufaturers, but makers.
Dumbing down the national discourse so Obama voters can grasp the idea.
“Faire”?
for every maker there are 9 takers.
What's Obama gonna do about that?
(...rhetorical question, of course).
Leni
Government regulations and bureaucracy-created paperwork?
Obama is the Faire Queen.
Leni
Great point.
Maker Faires have been around for years. The name is slightly offensive to me. For the most part these are just craftsmen whose work doesn’t quite fit into the craft show niche. Many are into CNC and do custom and production work for other companies.
Correct. Obama is all hat, no cattle.
Lol!
Highly ironic given what Obama said about private sector creations.
Ontopreenear is to hard to spell.
“...with more than 13 federal agencies...offering Makers a suite of support services.”
What could POSSIBLY go wrong? *SMIRK*
Yeah, not a thing. : )
-— It featured more than 100 Makers -—
“Makers” makes my spidey sense tingle. It’s either because the term reflects Obama’s child-like understanding of free markets, or worse, a commie understanding of the free market, I.e., The Makers v. The Exploiters.
Its probably both. I’d love to see where the term originated in Left Wing circles. One thing the Left does well is crafting slogans.
I went to the one in San Mateo, CA.
It was interesting but 50% of it is alternative art similar to what you would find at “Burning Man”.
In other words...Uber Liberal and Obummer’s Base.
I went there with my family. You're right, most of it was glitzy art for entertainment's sake. My granddaughter enjoyed the huge bubble wands to blow bubbles, and the light shows in the darkened cavernous building. I went to find stuff to help with my 3D print hobby but came up mostly empty.
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