This Saturday the Keweenaw Time Traveler team attending MakerFest 2024: Making in Progress. This fun and family friendly event was hosted by Superior Fab Lab in the Houghton High School complex. The Keweenaw Time Traveler was one of the 21 featured makers from across the Copper Country that shared their crafts at the event. Guests could learn everything from how to make guitar FX pedals, knit and crochet, how to operate a letter press and even how to grow their own mushrooms at home through interactive exhibits. 

Over seventy people stopped by the Keweenaw Time Traveler booth and explored the history of the Keweenaw through games, stories, and our digital atlas. Visitors to the Time Traveler booth could play KeTT Bingo, draw their favorite Copper Country memory, write a post card to a friend, or just explore the people, places and stories that make up our history. The team also gave a short presentation on the creation of the Time Traveler and its many uses.

The Keweenaw Time Traveler attended this year's regional History Competition held at Michigan Technology University. The Michigan History Day Competition encourages students across the state to explore history from both local and global scales and prepare a variety of exhibits that share what they learned. Students from across the Western Upper Peninsula can create documentaries, historical performances, exhibits and websites and enter the regional competition sponsored by the Michigan Technological University Social Sciences Department and the Michigan Tech Archives. This year all of the participants came from Lake Linden. 

The theme for this year was "Turning Points in History", but students took this theme and developed a wide variety of projects on many themes from the Italian Hall disaster to the discovery of penicillin. Other exhibits included the development of the V-2 rocket and its impact on early experiments in manned space travel and a special documentary on MKUltra, a CIA project that researched unique methods of information extraction including psychoactive drugs and electroshock.

Winners of the regional competition have earned a spot in the State Finals taking place April 20th at Central Michigan University.

For more information about the History Day Competition explore this article published by the Daily Mining Gazette.