Exhibits

HempWood

Hempwood, the healthiest most sustainable flooring and furniture in the world. We use locally grown hemp with a soy glue to make a durable hardwood. Our mills in Kentucky are powered by bio-waste thermal energy and hydro electric.

Baddy Girls Baking

We love to bake and we love to make people smile. We're two friends in 7th grade at Lipscomb Academy and we are passionate about baking. We make delicious pies, cookies, and treats that will bring a smile to your face. We even make dog treats!

Studio Haus

I use various techniques for creating and printing my own surface designs on textiles and paper. My printing processes include block printing, silk screen, digital printing and more recently, naturally dyed fabrics. Product offerings include greeting cards, prints / wall hangings, scarves, ponchos, hat bands, bandanas, shawls, pouches, hand bags, pillows, baby bibs and tea towels.

Turnip Green Creative Reuse

At Turnip Green Creative Reuse, we foster sustainability, creativity, and community through reuse by diverting usable materials from our landfill for creative endeavors. Each day, we take in an average of 1,000 pounds of donated, hard-to-recycle materials and redistribute them back to community members through a shopping center, education programming, and studio workshops.

Machine Knitting

Introduction to the world of punch card machine knitting! Try out machine knitting and learn how sweaters are made.

Allyria's Boutique & Creations

A black woman-owned business that sells handmade accessories like tote bags, jewelry, and other handmade bags. I started as a young seamstress with dreams of being a designer and found a passion for creating accessories and customizing products to express my creativity. As my passion and education about the environment grows, my business reflects that in our sustainable measures, all products are made using second-hand materials.

AbleVoices

AbleVoices is a local nonprofit organization that teaches photography to teens and adults with and without disabilities as a means for self-expression, creative and social outlets and work-based learning. This device will assist our photographers in assembling photo greeting cards to sell at local markets, festivals, and retail spaces. It allows for a 4x6 photo to be centered and adhered to a 5x7 folded card without measuring or the need for precise fine motor control . Our goal at AbleVoices is for our photographers to do as much as they can at each step of the process and this card-making tool helps make this possible!

Winton Design Company

A full-service design company featuring unique bespoke functional sculpture for your home or office.

The Child Studies Group

The Child Studies Group is a nonprofit research group in the Department of Psychology & Human Development at Vanderbilt University. We are composed of over a dozen faculty and numerous undergraduate, professional, and graduate students. We volunteer at community events to offer free, child-friendly activities such as developmentally appropriate crafts or games.

Not Your Old Cardigan

Crochet and knit creations ranging from handbags, beanies, stuffed animals, and decor!

Shrunk3D

Shrunk3D is the first mobile scanning company to bring your memories to life. Step inside our mobile photo booth with our 95 cameras. In 1/2 second, we will capture your image (as well as your friends and family), and in four weeks you will receive a life like high density nylon figurine that will look just like you and what you are wearing. It's the new photography!

Nanoscale Making with VINSE

Making tiny things matters! Join the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) for interactive demos making ultrathin materials and using multilayer stencils like nano-scientists use.

Vanderbilt Ceramic Department

Presenting the clay 3D printer, creating demonstration on the various objects and display of the ceramic drums using the 3D printer.

Middle Tennessee Robotic Arts Society (MTRAS)

Makers & Tinkerers who use technology to solve problems, educate and entertain. While our emphasis is on robotics, our members span many interests and projects from combat robots, automation, movie props thru interactive art exhibits.

StudioNPL

Studio NPL is an innovative, technology driven learning environment for teens aged 12-18. Daily workshops are mentor led and focus on building 21st century skills in STEM, digital literacy, and career readiness. Whether you want to be an engineer, filmmaker, graphic artist, musician, or anything else, Studio NPL has resources and the nurturing environment for teens to explore and engage their passions.

Jeff Glancy Designs

I bought my first 3D printer in 2016 and always enjoy designing practical 3D prints. I started selling some of my 3D printed designs online in 2018. They include a host of organizers/racks/carriers. Some other designs include a makeup palette rack and cotton round holders.

Vanderbilt University Motorsports

The Vanderbilt University Motorsports Team is a student engineering organization that designs, fabricates, and tests a formula style race car to compete in the Formula SAE student design competition. Through hours spent working on our car, members explore their engineering interests and learn valuable skills including computer aided design, machining, project management, and more!

Eat Bubbles

Eat Bubbles is a premium boba tea company using farm direct teas and organic ingredients! We make many of our drinks from scratch and never use powders or artificial flavorings!

Moose, Inc. Publishing

Moose, Inc. Publishing is a children’s book publishing studio created by 13 year old Phoenix Drennen. He oversees the entire process himself, from writing and illustrating, to publishing and marketing. He’s passionate about creativity and he’ll love answering any questions about his process, and help other aspiring young authors realize their dreams. His latest book ‘One Moose One Goose’ will be available to buy at his booth, along with some more information about his business.

the Wond'ry FAB Lab

The Wond'ry FAB Lab is a soft goods lab that serves the Vanderbilt community and beyond. Our goal is collaborate across disciplines, providing crafting and specific skill-building workshops as well as an open space that provides the tools, know-how, and teaching guidance to build creative confidence. We have a focus on sustainable and adaptive fashion, and ongoing outreach projects with the Vanderbilt Hospital and Children's Hospital.

Green Hills YMCA

Crafts that allow for kids to build animals.

LuAnn Graber Art

Graphite Portraiture Plus: Along with displaying recent portraits and taking commissions, I will display for purchase several other items, including printed cards of various of my landscape/butterfly paintings, as well as hand made vine wreaths from vines harvested on our TN property

Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab

The Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab (VADL) is an interdisciplinary Aerospace Engineering Research and Development Laboratory specializing in the design of expert systems and rocket-flyable payloads. VADL provides students with an opportunity to complete a unique end-to-end aerospace project, focused on science and engineering. Every year, VADL competes in NASA's Student Launch competition. The challenge for this year's project is to design a flight capsule capable of retaining four "STEMnauts" and transmitting data via RF to a ground station post-landing.

NetsBlox

NetsBlox is a web- and cloud-based visual programming environment that enables students to create fun and engaging computer programs. NetsBlox provides access to many online services and data sources such as Google Maps, climate data, movie database etc. NetsBlox also enables programs running on separate computers to talk to each other. Hence, students can write multi-player games such as Tic Tac Toe or Battleship and other truly distributed programs such as a chatroom or a shared whiteboard. NetsBlox can access the sensors on one's smartphone and turn it into a remote game controller. Students can also create algorithmic music with NetsBlox.

The Vanderbilt Communication and Language Lab

The Vanderbilt Communication and Language Lab is interested in investigating how people's reading habits affect their language processing skills. Using linguistics tasks and "brain games", we piece together the experiential factors that help readers process difficult sentences and how these factors make readers different from another.

The Vanderbilt Collaborative for STEM Education and Outreach

The Vanderbilt Collaborative for STEM Education and Outreach would like to introduce students to ways to study STEM and explore STEM career options through our activity and information about our programs.

Auset Essentials Holistic Wellness

All Natural, healthy, products for mind, body and Soul.

Just For You Candle Co.

Small-batch candles made from up-cycled materials. Hand-poured in Nashville TN!

Frist Center for Autism and Innovation

SANDI (Simulator for Advanced Neurodiverse Driving Instruction) is a driving simulator designed specifically for teens and adults on the autism spectrum and other neurodiverse individuals. It combines cognitive and emotional training with immersive VR technology to create a safe, controlled environment for learning and practicing driving skills. SANDI’s unique approach helps address the specific challenges faced by neurodiverse drivers, enhancing their confidence and independence on the road.

Sports, Movement, and Technology

Learn about how sports technologies and wearables detect and identify different kinds of movements, play games with these technologies, and learn to make your own!

Andrews Ceramics

Naturally formed porcelain bowls

Art for Autism

My grandmother taught me to crochet at age 8. I’m an autistic adult who uses yarn crafts as a way to regulate my sensory challenges. All of my projects are made from recycled yarn.

Oh, Brother

Practical products for the home, handmade from clay, wood, leather and textile remnants

TSA - Antioch High School

Come explore what the Technology Student Association (TSA) can involve at the High School Level! Student participants will explain the benefits of joining TSA and the competition projects they have been involved in. We will also have an interactive demonstration of our last season's VEX solution for the game Over Under.

Art 120

Art 120 invites makers of all ages to join the fun in Chattanooga on Saturday, May 3rd and show us what you're made of at the We Make Festival. From 11am to 4pm on the Chattanooga Green, attendees can expect art cars from around the country, live performances, maker exhibits, international food, and an UpCycle Fashion show. There are cash prizes and awards for youth entries and booth space is available. Come see us at the TN Maker Fest to learn more.

Shatterproof Media, LLC

Our entertainment and event coverage solutions can be scaled to fit any size event anywhere in the world. From an office party photo booth to a major high-volume marketing opportunity that employs registration and multiple photo-op stations, our team is ready to handle it. Whether you need a custom designed graphic overlay for your souvenir photo prints or the integration of a green screen photo booth with an existing installation, we can do it. Need customized branded emails delivered instantly to your attendees? We can do that, too.

Red Bull Basement

Red Bull Basement empowers the next generation of innovators to develop and launch outstanding ideas, accelerated by AI technology. Throughout the Red Bull Basement journey, teams will have the chance to take part in the National Final in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the World Final in Tokyo, Japan. The team that wins Red Bull Basement will take part in a 3-week accelerator program in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley in collaboration with Plug and Play Tech Center in June 2025.

MetaFlex

The MetaFlex grip-strengthening compression glove is the newest innovation in hand health! Our wearable technology is designed to effortlessly reduce pain and improve mobility during your normal activities.

Music City Blue Star Moms - Chapter TN3

Music City Blue Star Moms-TN3 Mothers of military service members supporting our Active Duty and Veteran communities.

Insitute for Space and Defense Electronics- Vanderbilt University

Learn about Vanderbilt Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, Vanderbilt Electrical engineering department, and The SCALE program!

Advanced DIY 3D Printing Technology

Pushing the limits of home 3D printing. Designed for off the shelf and economically produced components. Industrial speed, quality and temperature capabilities for a small fraction of the cost.

The Creative Collective of MA

Siblings Mikail and Aisha love to draw and share their love for art. Some postcards of their artwork for purchase will be available as well as some live on the spot drawing options. Stop by if you want to make a custom card for a loved one.

Make Nashville MakerSpace

Make Nashville is a makerspace. It’s a creative community where you can bring your ideas into the real world through metal, wood, clay, plastic, chemistry, fabric, digital bits, and more. For the low monthly fee of $75.00, our members have 24-hour access to 12,000 square feet of tools that professionals use – CNC machines, 3D printers, laser cutters, woodworking tools, an automobile lift, lathes, welders, sewing machines, ceramics wheels and kilns, tools for fine arts, darkroom gear, just to name a few. Plus, many of our members are experts in the arts and equipment we provide. Whether in person or on Slack, they’re happy to share their knowledge and perhaps learn a new thing or two from you. Drop in for a tour during one of our bi-weekly Friday Night Open House events. We’d love to show you around!

Hivemind Robotics

We will be bringing our robot used in last year's FTC competition. We will also bring our new robot as well that is a work in progress.

ADROIT Robotics

ADROIT is a K-12 community career development program that uplifts the next generation of engineers, scientists, and leaders to think big! We provide on-site mentorship, community, and skills training that our now 100+ students are able to take into their fields throughout education and beyond. We build kids who "engineer for good" and truly understand that they can achieve their dreams with the right support and community.

Leveraging Wearable Technology to Track Posture Degeneration and Visualize the Spine

SpineSync is a provisionally patented smart vest that can automatically track posture degeneration and create visualizations of the user's spinal curvature without an x-ray, helping maintain spine health. Patients need only wear SpineSync for 30 seconds a day in the comfort of their home. SpineSync works by using accelerometers to measure angles at points on the spine, and then combines these angles with algorithms to reconstruct an image of the user's spine.

Tomorrow in Focus

Tomorrow in Focus is an art and advocacy organization developing our 'Imagine' Short Film. This film will tackle land degradation from the perspective of youth and creativity.

A-1 Digital, LLC

Our company has been actively involved in developing educational resources and initiatives aimed at empowering communities through technology. Most recently, we have launched projects such as a coloring and activity book, The Guardians of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Your Guide to Understanding AI, Big Data, Blockchain Technology, Digital Assets, and more!

MidSouth Garrison of the 501st Legion

The Legion is an all-volunteer organization formed for the express purpose of bringing together costume enthusiasts under a collective identity within which to operate. The Legion seeks to promote interest in Star Wars through the building and wearing of quality costumes, and to facilitate the use of these costumes for Star Wars-related events as well as contributions to the local community through costumed charity and volunteer work. We make all of our own costumes and props, and will feature displays of kits in progress, as well as our "black series box" which allows participants take post like a life size action figure in the box.

Wond'ry Mechanical Makerspace

Assemble Cardboard Rockets