W
e are happy to announce the winners of this
year’s Amazing Maker Awards.
Every maker who shares a project is amazing,
and the same can be said collectively of our maker
community, which supports and values the work of
makers. We hope these awards help gain recognition
in the broader society for the creative and technical
contributions of makers.
The Amazing Maker Awards celebrate what
makers do — for different reasons and in different
areas of endeavor. The winners are an eclectic
group of makers, just like what you’d see at a
Maker Faire. What they have in common is that
each one taps into a deep human urge to create
and make real something that starts out as an
idea. We are grateful that they shared their work
with us. We truly believe in the power of sharing,
which motivates others to create and make.
In the pages that follow, we present the 26
winners by category, as well as specialty award
winners, who will split a $22,000 prize pool. Check
out the showcase of winners online to get a fuller
understanding of these projects and their makers,
along with video demonstrations. (I hope maker
educators and parents will share this showcase with
students as a way to encourage them to generate
their own ideas and start making.)
We are particularly grateful to our many judges*
who reviewed the projects. David Wells who used to
run the makerspace at the New York Hall of Science
wrote: “It was so nice seeing all the cool projects. It
is inspiring to see people doing stuff!!” Judges Gary
Rohrbacher and Ann Filson, authors of Designing for
CNC and professors at the University of Kentucky,
wrote: “Gary and I just finished judging our projects.
What a nice way to end the day! So inspiring.” Our
team at Make: reviewed the rankings produced by
judges and selected the top winners.
We are proud to have launched the Amazing
Maker Awards, aka the Makeys — and we encourage
you to enter your project for the 2023 awards.
—Dale Dougherty, CEO of Make: Community
*JUDGES — Matthew Wettergreen (Rice University),
Debra Ansell (maker/educator), Lydia Cline (author),
Joan Horvath (author), Ryan Spurlock (Human Made
makerspace), Ann Filson and Gary Rohrbacher
(authors/educators), Jen Fox (Microsoft), Suchit
Jain (Solidworks), Cathy Chen (Fab Lab El Paso),
Robert Kundel (Restorer Tools), Julie Darling
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