An overview of what the Tarrant Makers foundation and membership offer to the creative community and parties interested in the maker movement

1. Randall Arnold, Tarrant Makers public relations

2. WHO ARE TARRANT MAKERS?
Organization: the Tarrant County Maker Community Foundation is
a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2012 to create and improve
local educational and entrepreneurial experiences
Community: artists, programmers, hardware hackers and “do-it-
yourselfers” of all kinds

3. WHAT IS OUR VISION?
To be a community of makers supporting member and public education, innovative
projects, and one or more member-accessible workshops (aka makerspaces). We will
accomplish this by staying on top of technological advances and will implement all
programs with consideration for life enhancement and environmental sustainability
Through the support of our sponsors and mentor members, and using grassroots
approaches, we put tech in the reach of anyone, and aim to fill in gaps in existing public
education and corporate learning approaches by following concepts like STEAM

4. experiences
education
entrepreneurship
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• meetups
• hackathons
• mixers
• contests
• classes
• projects
• field trips
• mentoring
• connecting

5. experiences
education
entrepreneurship
OUR GOALS
• meetups
• hackathons
• mixers
• contests
• classes
• projects
• field trips
• mentoring
• connecting

6. experiences
education
entrepreneurship
Partners
• NRH Library
• Ft Worth Museum of
Science & History
Partners
• BRIT
• UTA
• Endeavor Cinema
Group
Partners
• Tech Fort Worth
• IDEA Works FW
• Launch DFW
OUR SUPPORT
• meetups
• hackathons
• mixers
• contests
• classes
• projects
• field trips
• mentoring
• connecting
Sponsors/Donors
Intel▪Autodesk▪Microsoft

7. Municipalities▪Clubs▪Universities▪
Start-ups▪Corporations▪Public
experiences
education
entrepreneurship
OUR BENEFICIARIES
Sponsors/Donors
Intel▪Autodesk▪Microsoft
Partners
• NRH Library
• Ft Worth Museum of
Science & History
Partners
• Tech Fort Worth
• IDEA Works FW
• Launch DFW
• meetups
• hackathons
• mixers
• contests
• classes
• projects
• field trips
• mentoring
• connecting
Partners
• BRIT
• UTA
• Endeavor Cinema
Group

8. WHAT WE NEED NEXT
Civic Support.
Now that we are gaining commercial sponsors and gathering momentum,
Tarrant Makers would like to add municipalities to our partners, in the areas of:
• Collaboration
• Guidance
• Promotion
• Gathering and work spaces

9. WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE
Experiences.
Tarrant Makers will put our cutting-edge skills and knowledge to work for the
benefit of our community. We will connect the public, particularly K-12
students, with emerging technologies by providing:
• Accessible demonstrations
• Examples of STEAM educational and industry best practices
• Mentorship
• Opportunities to meet, share and develop
• Fun!

10. EXAMPLES THAT INSPIRE US
Generator
Based in Burlington, Vermont, it’s a novel
city/community collaborative venture
http://generatorvermont.com/
venturelab
A San Antonio, Texas hands-on innovation
and entrepreneurship academy
http://venturelab.org/
New Factory
A dynamic city/community managed
resource in Tampere, Finland
http://newfactory.fi/
Dallas Makerspace
Our neighboring maker community
http://dallasmakerspace.org/

11. BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
To achieve our goals, in addition to contributing our own “sweat equity”, Tarrant
Makers will continually pursue grassroots fundraising, in-kind donations, corporate
giving and partner provisions
In turn, we will do our part to connect interested Tarrant County residents with
leading-edge opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and
Mathematics. We will do this anywhere and everywhere, but plan to one day
establish our own Resource Center

12. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND
CONSIDERATION
Tarrant Makers
http://tarrantmakers.org
social.media@tarrantmakers.org
We look forward to what develops next!