Maker Library Network Designers Skaters
Geekulcha Maker Library activities from March 2016 to March 2017. The Maker Library Network is a global project by the British Council.
Library
A collection of books ranging from design to tinkering forms part of the Maker Library Network structure and open to all for reading.
Makespace
Enabling a space for makers to make and ecourage co-creativity at Hackathons, the main space, skate parks and in pop-up events.
Gallery
The Maker Library Network celebrates human achievement and showcases the creative work of various makers in the maker ecosystem.
Campus Reach
19 April 2016
UK, Nigeria, ZA makers toured Soweto for the start of the Geekulcha Maker Library Network in Gauteng.
19 April 2016
Makers hosted Intel training based on the Intel RealSense at the Vaal University of Technology.
STEM
23 April 2016
22 - 23 October 2016
DrawBots to empower young makers in Kimberley through the contintal week of coding in Africa.
16 June 2016
Makers meet Skaters - putting Tech onto skateboards and attracting more young people into Science and Technology.
Fakugesi
Hackathons
24 - 26 June 2016
Biggest hackathon in the country with over 220 Geeks, the Maker Library Network had maker room for IoT projects.
30 - 31 July 2016
Maker librarians mentored the finalists of the SAB KickStart ignnite makerthon challenge.
Conferences/Seminars
07 May 2016
Hosted in Sandton, Maker Librarian, Tiyani Nghonyama was amongst the speakers of the conference for teachers to adapt into makerspaces.
02 April 2016
Hosted at The Innovation Hub, over 80 makers gathered to make with Arduino tools and gotten inspired by various speakers and industry leaders.
12 March 2016
An interactive intersections conference at the University of Johannesburg, Mixo and Tiyani were amongst the speakers.
06 August 2016
Makers had set up station at the highly participated Decorex 2016 event in Johannesburg.
23 February 2017
Is Africa built for Innovation? Tiyani was amongst the panelists of the panelists of the leadersship summit hosted by the Engineers Without Boarders.
07 August 2016
Standard Bank youth EXPO - Tiyani was amongst the speakers to the youth.
03 March 2017
Tiyani and Sina spoke at the Makers workshop organized at Tshwane University of Technology with Open AIR researchers from across Africa.
30 October 2016
Mixo was invited and spoken at the Mozilla Festival in 2016. He shared how shared peoplea and makers are doing things in South Africa.
23 June 2016
Hosted in Midrand, Maker Librarian, Tiyani Nghonyama was amongst the speakers of the conference for delegates to adapt into makerspaces.
15 November 2016
An Open Data challenge for 4 South African cities collaborating with the Open Data Institute (ODI) London.
Exhibitions
24 September 2016
Maker Librarians hosted a workshop and hosted at the South African Innovation Summit 2016 edition - Art meets Digital.
22 October 2016
A delegation of lawyers from Germany checked out the Geekulcha Maker Library Network and other programmes.
30 March 2016
The Mayor of Atlanta(USA), Mr Kasim Reed checked out the young makers at the gkVacWork programme hosted at The Innovation Hub.
25 August 2016
Maker Librarians occupied the IBM makerspace at the launch of the 2nd research lab in Africa.
Media
24 September 2016
Young makers mentored by the Geekulcha Maker Librarians won R15 000.00 at the Hack4Water challenge with their smart tap solution.
08 June 2016
SkateHacks Maker initiative featured on The New Age newspaper after the youth month tours in 2016.
08 May 2016
MakerEdu Conference hosted in Sandton in 2016, Geekulcha mmakers featured on SABC Network talking about the projects.
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