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First-Ever White House Maker Faire

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 18, 2014
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President Obama to Host First-Ever White House Maker Faire
“A new announcement of opportunity for CubeSat developers later this year, with the goal of broadening its reach to all 50 states by targeting the 21 “rookie states” that have had no previous CubeSat presence in space, and will leverage the existing NASA Space Grant network of colleges and universities. CubeSats provide the opportunity for Makers to build small satellites to demonstrate new innovative technologies and conduct scientific research in a space environment. To date, NASA has selected CubeSats from 29 states, 17 of which have already been launched, and two more are slated to go to space later this year.”
Keith’s note: NASA does not seem to be doing anything for White House Maker Faire today. If they are they are not telling anyone.

Keith’s update: This was just tweeted. Still nothing but crickets from CASIS and the ISS National Laboratory folks.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

5 responses to “First-Ever White House Maker Faire”

  1. jamesmuncy says:
    June 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm
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    Probably because you can’t make an SLS in a Maker lab. (And even if you could, it would defeat the whole “legislative intent”.)

    • kcowing says:
      June 18, 2014 at 1:36 pm
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      Typical inside the beltway wonk response.

      • jamesmuncy says:
        June 18, 2014 at 1:54 pm
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        Keith… it was a JOKE. Jeez… lighten up.

        • kcowing says:
          June 18, 2014 at 1:58 pm
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          Maybe if your organization (Space Frontier Foundation) had speakers at its events that were not 50+ year old white males you’d see the importance of these events to the next generation.

        • BeanCounterFromDownUnder says:
          June 19, 2014 at 1:44 am
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          Isn’t this issue worth more than a joke here or there? Both the U.S. and Oz (as are all modern societies) reliant on a strong technological base. Our countries should be doing everthing they possibly can to promote STEM with the younger generations and in R&D, and yet I see the opposite every day with politicians and government agencies cutting funding and ignoring opportunities to foster and grow these critical areas of society.
          This is not what our competitors are doing and we ignore these facts at our peril.
          Cheers – sorry, not something to cheer about. 🙁

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