{"id":1173,"date":"2014-04-26T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2014\/04\/26\/westport-2014-mini-maker-faire\/"},"modified":"2014-04-26T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T23:23:29","slug":"westport-2014-mini-maker-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2014\/04\/26\/westport-2014-mini-maker-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Westport 2014 Mini Maker Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westport Au Pairs from Columbia, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, South Africa and France helped children make origami animal puppets, color global place mats, and challenged older children to match country and capitals and find country word searches in the third annual Westport Mini Maker Faire, held Saturday April 26, 2014 at the Westport Library and adjacent Jessup Green.\u00a0 Four thousand interested inventors, tinkerers, artists, crafters, scientists and others came together for the great technology, innovative craft family event.\u00a0 Robots, electric skateboards, 3 D printers, drones, helicopters, synthesizers,\u00a0 and more were present for the hands-on workshops and demonstrations for and by children<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-669\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1362-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1362\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1362-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1362-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-670\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1364-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1364\" width=\"300\" 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decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-674\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1370-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1370\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1370-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1370-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-675\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1371-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1371\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1371-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/04\/IMG_1371-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, 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