Significance of the Annual School Maker Faire at Hudson Montessori

Hudson Montessori School is excited to welcome our school community to our upcoming Maker Faire, an annual celebration of creativity, curiosity, and innovation. This highly anticipated event showcases the incredible work of our students each year and highlights the depth and impact of our STEAM program.

STEAM in Action

The School Maker Faire showcases our school’s unique, hands-on STEAM program. Students are challenged to design, build, and present projects focused on creative arts, robotics, coding, science, or engineering. This process encourages students to think deeply, take risks, and apply their learning in meaningful, real-world ways.

Members of the community, students, and families look forward to the incredible projects on display each year. From clothing fabrication to video game creation, the Maker Faire highlights our students' interests and talents and reflects the work they complete throughout the school year.

Innovation With Purpose

We recognize the critical role the STEAM program plays in preparing our students to be innovators and critical thinkers in the 21st century. The School Maker Faire is one venue we offer for students to create, present, and collaborate with their community around ideas.

Many Maker Faire projects begin with a simple but powerful question: What problem can I solve? Students draw inspiration from challenges we face in daily life and use their unique skills to design thoughtful solutions. Past projects have ranged from robots built from recycled computer parts to research evaluating plastic alternatives derived from bananas.

Significance of the Maker Movement

While Maker Faires take place nationwide, Hudson Montessori School is proud to host the only School Maker Faire in New Jersey. Maker Faire began in 2006 in California as a way to bring together inventors, artists, engineers, and tinkerers to share what they create and how they create it. Rooted in the broader Maker Movement, Maker Faires celebrate hands-on learning, problem solving, and the belief that anyone can be a maker. 

Over the years, these events have grown into a global phenomenon, inspiring communities across the country to value creativity, experimentation, and collaboration. 

Maker Faire and the Montessori Connection

The collaborative and inventive spirit of Maker Faire pairs beautifully with the Montessori Cosmic Curriculum's emphasis on the “big picture.” By encouraging students to observe the world around them and imagine new inventions or solutions, Maker Faire invites them to explore essential questions of the Montessori curriculum and of human experience, such as “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?”

The Hudson Montessori School Maker Faire is one of several platforms that allow our students to invent, present, and collaborate with their peers and the wider community. We look forward to celebrating their creativity and sharing their inspiring work at this year’s event.

Hudson Montessori School, located in downtown Jersey City, serves children aged 2 to 8th grade. The teachers use an interdisciplinary, theme-based learning approach grounded in the Montessori philosophy and methodology to foster a love of learning in their students. Its STEM-certified campus is the only one of its kind in New Jersey, featuring STEM-certified teachers who meet the highest standards set by the National Institute for STEM Education. The school welcomes parents to attend an open house to learn more about the school's programs.