We’ve been invited out to setup and run a booth for 2 events, the first being the ICT Comic Con at Century II on Saturday, September 11th (10:30am to 5pm), and Sunday Septermber 12th (11am to 5pm).
We’ll need 2 to 3 people to manage the booths each day. At this point, I think it would be prefered if someone can manage the booth for most of the day. You would pretty much just have to sit/stand there and talk to people about MakeICT. If you have a cosplay or prop you are proud of, you are welcome to bring it out and talk about it! And emphasize what parts of it you made at MakeICT.
We may need someone to setup on the 10th (shouldn’t take much to setup)
I’ll probably be up there both days to help people put together fading LED circuits made from extra parts of the robot claw kits I have from Makerfaire a couple years back.
If you want to help, or have ideas you want to lead up, let me know!
Alrighty, just like the renaissance fair post, all those that are interested, we will meet up at MakeICT at 8pm this Thursday to get ideas hammered out for the event and get ourselves organized.
I can’t be at the meeting on Thursday. I have our regularly scheduled Educational Meeting at exactly that time. I can help with the booth though… so get together and figure out what I need to be doing
Here’s what is on my community event radar right now that we have MakeICT or any of the makers involved with.
Sept 11th and 12th - ICT Comic Con @ Century II (10am-5pm)
Sept 18th - Wichita Festival for the Art @ Central Riverside Park (10am-3pm)
Sept 19th - Ecofest @ 7202 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67206 (Noon-5pm)
Sept 25th and 26th - Great Plains Renaissance Festival @ Sedgwick County Park (9am-6pm)
Oct 2nd - National Drive Electric Week ICT @ Town East (1pm-4pm)
Main Focus
Our big focus will be on the ICT Comic Con and the Renaissance Festival since the event organizer reached out to us and comp’ed booths for us at both events.
Additional Outreach Opportunities
If there are people that want to run a booth for the Art Festival and the Ecofest, please let me or Malissa know so that we can get a more formal approach going for those events.
National Drive Electric Week ICT apparently has taken an interest in my electric roadster and would like for me to be out there with the roadster. It seems kind of like an informal event, but it would definitely be cool if we can get the electric bike people out there to talk about there experiences.
Progress
ICT Comic Con (need 3 to 4 people both days)
*Aaron Rivers is working on some pixelated art that we can screen print on card stock at the booth
*I have all the parts in to make 100 up/down fading LED circuits but I still need to bag everything and come up with a simple set of instructions to go with the kits.
*We need someone to come up with a 4ft to 8ft wide sign that we can hang off the back of the booth and use at other events (I know we have a banner somewhere, but this would be a nice backup plan or stretch plan if we can make it really cool)
Renaissance Fair (need 5 or 6 people both days)
*We have a fairly decent plan going
*Aaron rivers to bring out his cool table project if weather cooperates
*Still need to work on some kind of heavy duty shade/rain cover for the inevitable rough fair weather (we could use the shade tents we have, but I have seen similar tents get destroyed over the years at fair)
*Main attraction will be a pair of opposing Marshmallow Seige Weapon Warfare tables (patrons would assemble kits and then launch marshmallows at each other)
**Ethan is working on some simple patterns to lasercut for the seige weapons, but we will need to come up with some hardboard to use
**We could use some help coming up with targets and ways to dress up the tables
**Stretch goal will be to build a full scale ballista
Also, I talked with Davis that runs the website the Great Plains Renaissance Festival.
They’re willing to loan us a pretty cool 20 x 20 blue and white canopy for the Renaissance Festival, but we’ll have to come up with walls and the outer poles for it.
They really like the idea of the Marshmallow Seige Weapons and would like some photos to post on their website. Though, they did suggest that we fire the seige weapons all in one direction instead of at people given the precautions they are taking at fair.
They also wanted to make sure that we were aware that anyone manning the booth is not to have alcohol while on fair grounds. If one of the people running our booth did get drunk during fair and it became a problem, we would not be asked to come back…
I’m available for the Comicon booth on both days… I will be there for the Thursday meeting!
According to the site, the times are:
Saturday, September 11th, 2021: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, September 12th, 2021: 10:00am – 5:00pm
However, there is early entry at 9:30am for VIP ticket holders.
We may want to adjust accordingly to:
Sat: 9:30am – 6:00pm
Sun: 9:30am – 5:00pm
I’m trying to keep track of who all has volunteered to help and who all said they would be at which event. If anyone reading this would like to help out, please let me know… especially with setting up the tent at the renaissance festival… that beast is going to take 4 or 5 of us to set it up and I’m sure there are a couple other groups that would greatly appreciate some extra muscle.
I want to volunteer for the Ren Faire booth as well, I’ll see if I can get off work to help on the 24th. I have also mentioned the Ren Faire to the magic club and a few members were interested in performing some close up magic, but I have not received anything affirmative as of yet.
Updated to add James Lancaster to the Renaissance Fair.
Also, big thank you to Dean Day and Doug Wilson! Dean Day cranked out the stakes for the side walls for the tent and Doug Wilson has agreed to take on the creative lead of cranking out the sign for the ICT Comic Con and other future events!
The post lists the hours for Festival days as us starting at 8:30a, however the event doesn’t begin until 10a. Should this be updated to 9:30a on 25th and 26th?
