A proclamation in recognition of the second annual Denver Mini Maker Faire, June 13 and 14, 2015. 
Colleges, libraries and arts organizations which develop workforce and entrepreneurial talents in advanced manufacturing and new product invention and which create economic opportunity. Bringing back made in Denver as a phrase that not only celebrates Denver's rich manufacturing and entrepreneurial history, but beckons a diverse economic future that can be made even stronger with a thriving innovation and manufacturing sector creating primary jobs for the local economy. And. Whereas, Made in Denver will be celebrated in the upcoming second annual Denver M.A. Fair, debuting on June 13th and 14th at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, a festival to showcase the work of arts and crafters, inventors, builders, recyclers and other creators in the Denver area. And. Whereas, The Maker Faire will be a multigenerational gathering of 5 to 10000 attendees in its second year, providing the opportunity to participate in interactive exhibits from local businesses, crafters and techies who make, create, engage, learn, invent, craft, hack, recycle, build, think, clay and are generally inspired and inspiring. Whereas The Maker Faire will be the launch of the Colorado Maker ET Initiative, celebrating and sharing innovation and design thinking from leading technology and education organizations that empower educators to hack their classrooms. Creating a maker and innovation approach to Colorado Education. And. Whereas, The Maker Faire is described as the greatest show and tell on Earth, a very family friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the maker movement where people show what they're making and share what they are learning in the process of making building community, in the process of building products. And. Whereas, the original Maker Faire event started nine years ago in California and now attracts some 900 makers and 120,000 attendees, there are now flagship maker events in New York, Detroit, Kansas City, New Castle in the United Kingdom, Rome, Oslo and Tokyo, and a host of smaller, community driven, organized M.A. fairs being produced around the United States and the world, including a National Maker Faire that will take place at the White House on the exact same date as our Mini Maker Faire right here in Denver. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver that Section one, the Council hereby celebrates the June 13 to 14 2015 Makers Fair at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and urges Denver families and residents to participate in and be amazed by the fun filled Penelope of exhibits being offered. And to that the clerk in the city and county of Denver shall have tested and fixed the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Elizabeth Van Dyne. Thank you. Councilman Kennish, your motion to adopt. Thank you, Madam President. I move that proclamation. 405 be adopted. Second. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of council. Councilor McKinney Thank you, Madam President. I, as you know, many of you have heard me talk about the importance of making things as a primary piece of an economy. As we see more and more of our jobs in the service sector. We know that there are good quality jobs and it's a balanced economy to be making things. We had the first M.A., M.A. Fair last year. It was at the the National Western Stock Show Center. And I took my son, who's six years old, and it was amazing to watch the things that people were doing with things like 3D printers, which take a spool of plastic and can create anything that you can program in from a vase to a little car to a piece of equipment to, you know, use in an actual manufacturing process in some cases. There were also a lot of science experiments. There was creativity from creating anything you could imagine out of a humungous pile of cardboard boxes. And we all know that kids love a good cardboard box, regardless of what comes inside of it. And there were not just little kids, but there were big kids. Big kids ages, you know, 30, 40, 50, 70, 80 that were making things as well. And so it captured our imaginations. And I know that with a partner like the Museum of Nature and Science, it will be as effective this year. So I hope that folks will come out this coming weekend to the Museum of Nature and Science. And this is something that the museum is very interested in continuing to incorporate as in their regular exhibits. We all can think of if you've been to the museum, the the escalator has glass on it, so you can see how the inside of the escalator works. Imagine that at a greater scale as they continue to evolve so that you can see how things work as they put them together. So with that, I want to urge my colleagues to come out and support it and also to vote for this proclamation. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Can each I. Liman Lopez. Nevitt Ortega, Rob. Shepherd, I. SUSSMAN Hi. BROOKS Hi. BROWN All right. Fox, I. Madam President. High. Madam Secretary, please. Brown. 30. Here we go. Okay, then. Secretary, will you close the voting and announce the results. For Vice. Provost? Proclamation four or five has been adopted. Council McKinnis Is there someone that you would like to invite up to the podium? Yes, Madam President. I would like to invite Elizabeth Van Dyne, who is the producer of Denver's M.A. Fair. Thank you so much, Councilman Mitch and the Council for passing this proclamation. When I started the Maker Faire a couple of years ago here in Colorado, I started thinking of it as serious fun because it's a lot of fun. I mean, who wouldn't want to fly a drone obstacle course or create an art car with cartoonists or paint with code with spark fun? It's a lot of fun, but it's also quite serious. As Councilman Kenny pointed out, that these are these makers are the people who create our economy, who create our future. And so as a result, you have people coming in who are entrepreneurs, inventors, workforce, people whose default expression throughout the fair is one of wonder. The number one thing you'll see is and the very next thing is, I can do that. And so all of a sudden, things that people have never seen before from welding and sciencey, milling to sculpture and arts of all sorts, will go home and go, Wow, I can do that. And so the innovation economy moves forward and it's a great thing. And the other thing that the Maker Faire does is it leverages the event to get great coverage for what's happening in Denver. So, for example, last week I got a call from Discovery Channel saying, can you help us find inventors in Denver that are in the prototype stage that we can film and put up on the Discovery Channel? And I said, yes. And so this week, they're going to be filming in Denver, inventors that are happening here. Another thing that happened out of last year is Shane Evans, who is a sculptor from Denver, had built a 30 foot robot that shoots lasers and fire. And we had him featured at our Maker Faire. And because the Maker Faire is an international organization, the pictures and the and the experience went around the world. And since that fair, Shane Evans and his team have been going from city to city, Utah, Georgia, Florida and showing off and being paid for his art across the country . So he was a small, you know, locally based sculptor who now has an international presence because of it. And I'm very proud of that. The last thing that I want to point out is that this is a community event, and we're primarily run by volunteers. And what happens is people in the community come to me and say, I've got a great idea. So what happened last year was the Colorado Education Initiative came to me and said, Can we leverage the Denver fair for education? And I said, Sure, why not? And then my operations director looked at me and said, What are you doing? But that's her deal to take care of. Anyway, as a result, we're launching the Colorado Maker Education Initiative on Friday. And we have speakers, the CEOs of leading tech companies in Colorado. We have Mod Robotics, we have Spark Fund, we have Sphero, we have the head of Techstars all coming to talk to our educators about how to bring play and making into the classroom. So as I said, this is a lot of fun, but it's serious fun because it's about building our future. And I hope you'll all join me at the fair and and come around. And if you have any great ideas of things you want to do, bring them to me because we'll do them. Thank you so. Much. Q. Madam Secretary, will you please read the resolutions. From safety and well-being for before resolution authorizing approving the expenditure payment from the appropriation account designated a liability claims sum of $437,500 for your loss of Will Atkinson pursuant to the Court approved settlement agreement. Civil Action Number 0700541 to sharpen the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.