Mini Maker Faire Rhode Island
http://makerfaireri.com/
Started in San Mateo, California in 2006, and now expanding to Detroit and New York, Maker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. Community-driven, independently produced Mini Maker Faires inspired by Maker Faire are now being produced around the United States, including Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. At the Better World Expo, the RI Mini Maker Faire folks will be demonstrating 3D scanning and printing using a Kinect and MakerBot.
Cancer Creating Champions is a non-profit organization that links professional athletes with children who have cancer. Founded upon the principles of teamwork and long-term relationships, the program empowers children battling cancer.
Start Up Weekend-Providence, sponsored by the National Start Up Weekend non profit company, allows college students from the Providence area to compete against each other in developing a business idea and pitching it to a group of judges. In this 54 hour, exciting fast paced weekend, students will pitch ideas on Friday night, and after listening to them all, each student will decide which pitch they liked the best and they will then pair together accordingly and form a team. Each team then has all of Saturday and most of Sunday to come together to see if their start up idea is viable. They will have access to a Mentor the entire weekend to help guide them, along with guest speakers.
Zambikes International is an American start up company incorporated in California in 2010 that connects life changing companies and products to the world. By providing worldwide distribution for Bamboo bicycles and excellent customer service, Zambikes International is able to not only bring an incredible product to your door, but also provide increase employment and impact into the lives of Zambians.
The Main Green. It’s the hub of Brown’s campus. A live canvas for its students. From Modern Culture & Media concentrators producing interactive installations to college activists registering voters to LGBTQ students and their allies tie-dying rainbow t-shirts, the Main Green represents Brown University students’ creativity, innovation, and unwavering sense of community. Inspired by this campus creative center, we created MainGreen.tv, an online platform that showcases the creative projects going on at Brown and RISD and the amazing students behind them.
Maingreen.tv is modeled after partner sites Massive.tv at Northwestern University and Kuumba.tv at Washington University – St. Louis. Each week we profile a student who is doing something dynamic and engaging in the areas of social innovation, activism, music, performance, visual arts, and a category we’re calling x-factor. In addition to our profiles, check out our blog, which functions as a public forum for creative content and calendar of the most exciting events happening on campus.
Maingreen.tv is about supporting student creativity and facilitating collaboration using a contemporary, multimedia style of storytelling. We’re trying to harness all the energy, talent, and innovation we see each day on the Main Green into an online creative community.
The VeggieBus is a concept for a food truck on Brown University’s campus that will serve healthy snacks and meals made of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. With its convenient mobility and exciting menu of gourmet items at competitive prices, the truck will encourage and support the consumption of local produce. The VeggieBus will be the perfect solution for busy college students who seek to balance their overwhelming schedules with a healthy lifestyle.
Easy assembly and disassembly, low cost and great strength make
DecaDomes ideal for temporary housing, storage, field hospitals, cabins or remote work sites.
DecaDomes can assemble in about an hour on flat ground, by 2-3 people with a step ladder and a screwdriver. Units can be disassembled by one person in half the time. Identical, lightweight panels make assembly easy, reducing precious time and resources in emergency situations.
We respond instantly following natural and other disasters by delivering boxes of aid to those who need it most.
Each green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.
