N4N Table @ Bay Area Maker Faire 2014

Nerds For Nature will have an exhibit booth (http://makerfaire.com/makers/nerding-for-nature-leveraging-open-source-technology-for-eco-research/) at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, May 17-18 (http://makerfaire.com/bay-area-2014/) in San Mateo, and we're so excited! We've got plenty of fun and educational ways to engage the public as they wander by with their tech-glazed eyes, so don't miss our first-ever Faire festivities. (Get advance tickets online (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maker-faire-bay-area-2014-tickets-9098302267) before the event to save some bucks.)

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The main attraction will be our Monitor The Makers (http://nerdsfornature.org/monitor-change/makerfaire.html) signs posted around the fairgrounds, where visitors can take a photo and add to a real-time timelapse slideshow of makers in action. Then we'll show the latest Monitor The Maker photos back in the booth, where folks can show us their photo uploads to earn a Nerds For Nature sticker.

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Also on the agenda, Organizer Ken McGary and special guests will give a half-hour presentation at noon on Sunday, May 18 entitled "Nerding For Nature -- Leveraging Open Source Technology for Eco-Research (http://makerfaire.com/makers/nerding-for-nature-leveraging-open-source-technology-for-eco-research/)". Put this thought-provoking celebration of our recent accomplishments on your schedule now, and invite your Nerdy friends, too! It will be at the Make: Live stage in Expo Hall (http://makerfaire.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/make-live-mf14_map_info_v6.pdf).

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We'll also have a plentiful bounty of Nerd toys on display to get the conversations started. From the new openCTD water sensor, to remote sensor platform prototype NerdBuoy, to air quality sensor boards, to flying water quality robot DroneLogger (http://ksflabs.com/using-eco-drone-sensors-to-map-water-quality/) and beyond, we'll have plenty to show and tell. And we'll be highlighting some of our amazing bioblitz observations over the past year and showing off other Nerd projects with our new video projector -- hooray!

Our booth will be located in the Hackerspaces section of Expo Hall [event map (http://makerfaire.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/make-live-mf14_map_info_v6.pdf)], so stimulating conversation will be hard to avoid. Counter Culture Labs (http://counterculturelabs.org/) will be right next door, Hacker Dojo (http://www.hackerdojo.com/) a few booths away, and NASA will be right across the aisle -- how cool is that?!

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There will be plenty to do throughout the weekend, so we need your assistance! If you can stop by for an hour or two to visit with folks and keep the Nerd fire burning, that would be awesome. You can sign up to help on the Meetup page (https://www.meetup.com/Nerds-For-Nature/events/170762682/) and drop a comment if you have some idea of when you can join us. And if you can only visit for a bit, that's great too -- come on by and say hey.

And if you can commit to more time, fantastic! Contact us and we'll give you a discount ticket and make you a booth captain for a few hours -- you'll have amazing new Nerd powers to explore...

See ya there!

the Nature Nerd Maker Faire Crewe