Why You Should Take Your Kids To a Maker Faire

This past month — and for the fourth year in a row — I visited California's San Mateo County Event Center for the granddaddy of Maker Faire events, a celebration of home-baked technology projects and DIY attitudes. Over 125,000 people visited the Maker Faire to check out all kinds of creations, share ideas and get inspired to build something themselves.

The Maker Movement started a little over a decade ago, with a heavy focus on fields like robotics, circuitry and computer hardware.