Maker Faire Student Days 2024 programming will be:

1. Friday, September 26, 2025 @ 10AM – 3PM
2. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 560 Nimitz Ave., Vallejo, CA 94592

Schools who will be purchasing tickets for Maker Faire Bay Area Field Trip Days for groups of 10 or more students. 

This applies to public schools, private schools, home schools, colleges, and universities. 

If your group consists of less than 10 students, we encourage you to reach out to other local school groups or pods to form a larger group and join in the Faire experience together.

$10 each for students and $15 each for chaperones.

Maker Faire Field Trip Day is a special preview day in advance of the full opening of Maker Faire Bay Area on Saturday/Sunday. Most Makers will be available, as well as most attractions. This is an opportunity for school groups, and other interested parties, to get some more face-to-face time with Makers and the Faire in general.

Please refer to your school’s chaperone policy.

No, all students that are part of school groups MUST attend Maker Faire Bay Area Student Days with a chaperone.

Yes. To pay by check or PO please send an email to tickets@makerfaire.com.

Be sure to indicate in the subject line what you are inquiring about. 

Your entire school group needs to enter the Faire together.

Follow these instructions for organizing your group:

1. Once you have arrived at the Faire, assemble all members of your group and ensure that everyone is there.
2. The main contact/chaperone for your whole group should have 2 organized stacks of papers to hand to the ticketing agent:
3. The first stack will include each attendee’s participation agreement paper-clipped together—all students and chaperones must have their own completed and signed agreement.
4. The second stack will include, each attendee’s ticket paper-clipped together.
5. The main contact/chaperone should stand in front of the entire group and be ready to hand both stacks to the ticketing agent. The main contact/chaperone should also be ready with an exact head count of how many students and how many chaperones total, are with their group. 

Please help us reduce the amount of time it takes to get your large groups into the Faire by having all of this information ready before entering in line at the gates.

Yes, you may bring a packed lunch into Maker Faire Field Trip Day and food is also available for purchase at the Faire. Please be aware seating areas for large groups are limited. 

Please email community@make.co if you haven’t found the answer to your question here.