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NOMCON 2019

9:00am EDT

Chattanooga Woodworking Academy Tour Chattanooga Woodworking Academy Inc.Bill Carney INCubator Tour Business Development CenterBill Lupia Creative Discovery Museum Creative Discovery MuseumHenry Schulson

10:00am EDT

Chattanooga Public Library Tour Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public LibraryMeredith Levine Chattlab Makerspace Tour Chattlab MakerspaceJeff Johnson Toy Hackathon The Edney Innovation CenterAdaptability Expo

11:00am EDT

VWeLab Tour Public Education FoundationMichael Stone Chattanooga Public Library Tour Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public LibraryMeredith Levine Chattanooga Woodworking Academy Tour Chattanooga Woodworking Academy Inc.Bill Carney INCubator Tour Business Development CenterBill Lupia

11:30am EDT

VWeLab Tour Public Education FoundationMichael Stone

12:00pm EDT

Chattanooga Public Library Tour Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public LibraryMeredith Levine Chattlab Makerspace Tour Chattlab MakerspaceJeff Johnson Registration Experience Hall

1:00pm EDT

Behind the Scenes at The Tennessee Aquarium Tennessee AquariumBrooke Gorman

1:30pm EDT

Social Justice Sewing Academy Quilt Project with Sara Trail Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public LibraryJoyce Teal • Sara Trail • Meredith Levine

2:00pm EDT

Branch Technology Tour Branch TechnologyDavid Fuehrer • Branch Technology Chattlab Makerspace Tour Chattlab MakerspaceJeff Johnson

3:00pm EDT

Branch Technology Tour Branch TechnologyDavid Fuehrer • Branch Technology Behind the Scenes at The Tennessee Aquarium Tennessee AquariumBrooke Gorman

3:20pm EDT

Mueller Technology Center Tour Mueller Co.

3:30pm EDT

Creative Discovery Museum Creative Discovery MuseumHenry Schulson

4:00pm EDT

Mueller Technology Center Tour Mueller Co. Chattanooga Public Library Tour Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public LibraryMeredith Levine

7:00pm EDT

Friday Night Reception at Miller Park Miller Park

8:00am EDT

Registration & Breakfast Experience Hall

8:30am EDT

Opening Remarks BallroomDorothy Jones-Davis

9:00am EDT

Keynote 1: Mayor’s Maker Town Hall Ballroom

10:10am EDT

Dissecting the Data: Annual Survey of Makerspaces 2018 Report-Out Room 3Jennifer Deafenbaugh IGNITE SESSION: Making a Difference as a Maker Community Room 2Ashley West • Collin Thomas • Lon Davis • Robert Ryan-Silva • IGNITE • Chimera Creators Of Makers and Placemaking Room 9Charlie Brock • Jim Frierson • Mike Bradshaw Empowering Youth to be Locally Engaged Problem-Solvers Room 5Kate Maloney • Connie Liu • Shelly Rodriguez • Janet Hollingsworth • Dr. Gokul Krishnan • Infosys Foundation USA Fab Days of Summer: Resources for Supporting Educators with Digital Fabrication in the Classroom Room 12Dr. Sue Williamson • Sonya Pryor-Jones Compile or Reboot with Open Source Makers Room 6Maria Esquela • Lee Walker • Rachel McCrafty Rural Reinvention Room 4Craig Coffey • Pat Scannell

11:10am EDT

Making an End to Extinction: A Conservation Toolkit for Makers Room 3Tom Quigley Making as a Tourism Industry Room 9Dan Schneiderman Making in College: Educational Pathways Room 5Micah Lande • John Grout • Amanda Jarvis • Martin Wallace MakerNet Room 11Nathan Parker • Matt Kenigson IGNITE SESSION: Making Sustainable Room 2Ryan McDermott • Joe Dwyer • Callye Keen • Joel Leonard • Nan Braun • Elise Spontarelli • IGNITE • Chimera Creators Make Startups – The Business of Supporting Professional Makers and Makerspaces Room 12Eric Parker • Grace Belangia

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Workshop provided by Fairchild Botanical Garden Experience Hall Silent Auction Left of Registration Desk

1:40pm EDT

Makerspaces as Disaster Resilience and Response Centers (Workshop) Room 12Nathan Parker Tennessee's Maker Communities: Making Means Business Room 9Alexis Willis • Jim Biggs • Mike Bradshaw • Whitney Hardy IGNITE SESSION: Making Makers Room 2Michael DeGraff • Liz Whitewolf • Danielle Martin • Bobby Reed • Adam Spontarelli • Robert Fraher • IGNITE • Chimera Creators The #AmericanSolar Prize: Bringing Makers & National Labs Together Room 3Callye Keen • Rachelle Ihly • Jade Garrett Fundraising 101 Room 4J.R. Logan Makerspace Software Infrastructure: tools to help make decisions based on data, not emotions Room 6Nan Braun Building a Community Ecosystem 101 Room 11Enoch Elwell

2:40pm EDT

Disaster Resilience and Response: Building a Maker Community of Practice Room 12Nathan Parker Who is a Maker? Equity & Making Room 6Ron Williams, PhD • Maria Esquela • April Lewis • Adam Masters • Jane Crayton Inventing Across All Ages & Stages Room 5Andrew Coy • Lew Lefton • Connie Liu How to MAKE your elevator pitch Room 3Joyce Teal IGNITE SESSION: Making Networks Room 2Brady Fulton • Josh Weisgrau • Jennifer Deafenbaugh • J. E. Johnson • Stefanie Nguyen • Lee Walker • IGNITE • Chimera Creators The Maker Economy and Workforce Development Room 4Christa Flores • Joel Gordon

3:40pm EDT

Keynote 2: Sherry Lassiter & Sonya Pryor-Jones, Fab Foundation BallroomSherry Lassiter • Sonya Pryor-Jones

4:45pm EDT

Product Seeding Session: Indiegogo Campaign for Maker Space Tool Instruction Room 9Richard Civille Project Seeding Session: Co-creation of NSF-funded Maker research Studies - Building a Collaboratory between the Maker and Research communities - Part I Room 11Robert Russell • Micah Lande Project Seeding Session: Maker Event Producer Meetup Room 12Dan Schneiderman • Chad Elish • Ian Cole Project Seeding Session: Nation of Makers Annual Survey - Part I Room 6Nan Braun • Jennifer Deafenbaugh Project Seeding Session: Verified Volunteers Room 8Maria Esquela Project Seeding Session: Youth Makers Room 10Katt Hendershott Project Seeding Sessions TBA

6:00pm EDT

Evening Reception at Songbirds Guitar Museum Songbirds

9:00pm EDT

Remembering Matt Kenigson The SocialChad Elish • Nathan Parker

8:30am EDT

Registration & Breakfast Experience Hall

9:00am EDT

Keynote 3: The Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA) Youth Movement: Quilting an Intergenerational Community BallroomJuan Tapia • Jeannine La Bate • Sara Trail

10:10am EDT

Project Planning Session: Verified Volunteers Room 8Maria Esquela Project Planning Session: Co-creation of NSF-funded Maker research Studies - Building a Collaboratory between the Maker and Research communities - Part II Room 11Robert Russell • Micah Lande Project Planning Session: Fatt Badge project Room 3Nathan Parker • Rachel McCrafty Project Planning Session: Maker Event Producers - What's Next? Room 12Chad Elish • Ian Cole Project Planning Session: Nation of Makers Annual Survey - Part II Room 4Jennifer Deafenbaugh Project Planning Session: Youth Makers Room 10Katt Hendershott Project Planning Sessions TBA

11:20am EDT

Tech Extension - from a NOMCON conversation to seed funded by former CEO of Google Room 2Andrew Coy • Lew Lefton • Ani Martinez The Maker Literacies Project - Curriculum Share Room 5Martin Wallace • Morgan Chivers Crowdsourcing Maker Innovation for Global Impact Room 6Nathan Parker • Sam Kelly • Jane Crayton • Maria Esquela • Tom Quigley Maker Outreach! Room 12Joel Leonard Maker Organization-Corporation Partnerships (Beyond Funding) Room 4Audrey Van de Castle • Aaron Cunningham

12:20pm EDT

InfyMaker/Nation of Makers Awards' Ceremony and Lunch Experience Hall

1:40pm EDT

Making Equity with Prototype PGH Room 2Erin Gatz • Louise Larson Bio-making in a Tennessee High School: Training the Next Generation in Synthetic Biology Room 9Elizabeth Forrester, PhD • Dawn Richards, PhD • Mary Loveless, PhD 1st Jobs Making Money - Lessons from Youth Employees in a Makerspace Room 5Darius McCoy • N'Dera Muhammad • Jordyn Bocklage Next Gen Role Models: Using Social Media to Engage Girls Room 12Xyla Foxlin Nation of Makers' State Representative and Regional Delegate meeting Room 11 Developing the Maker to Manufacturer pipeline through public-private partnerships between Industry and Educators Room 4Joel Leonard • Kenneth Sullivan • John Carver

2:40pm EDT

History, Myths, and Mysteries of the Maker Movement and Maker Education Room 4Steve Davee • Tiffany Y'Vonne Makerspaces in Libraries - Lessons learned and connections to be made Room 2Meredith Levine • Sarah Nagle • Morgan Chivers Youth of NOMCON Room 5John Button • Collin Thomas • Katt Hendershott • Becky Button Global Collaborative Networks to Make the Future Room 6Callye Keen Remake Learning in Your Region: How to use the Remake Learning Playbook Room 11Ani Martinez Affordable Access Systems... Everybody needs one (Open Source Access Controls) Room 12Rachel McCrafty • Nathan Parker

3:40pm EDT

Keynote 4: Community Bio: a Global Maker Movement for the Life Sciences BallroomDavid Sun Kong, PhD

4:40pm EDT

Closing Remarks BallroomDorothy Jones-Davis