Ohio is the home to a lot of talent in many different forms, and the Ohio Makes Festival is giving entrepreneurs across the state a platform to display their works.

Vendors from all over the state are welcome at the festival to display their products that are made, manufactured, or both, in Ohio.

All types of vendors, are welcome at the festival on Saturday, Oct. 6. From drink creators to hand crafted pieces to widely manufactured goods, as long as it’s being done in Ohio, all vendors are welcome.

“I don’t care if you’re Conn’s Potato Chips and you mass manufacture it, if you are manufacturing it in Ohio, we want to try to sponsor and highlight that,” Tracey Porter, the event coordinator, said. “If you are Honda and you’re manufacturing cars … or we don’t care if you’re making Christmas ornaments in your basement.”

This coming week, Oct. 1 through Oct. 7, is National Manufacturing Week which, Porter said, was the perfect time to lead into the first annual Ohio Makes Festival.

A few vendors that festival-goers can expect to see are Lapp It Up Kombucha, Plays with Glass, Space Cadet Soaks and many more.

In addition to the vendors, the festival will have a food truck rally and a beer garden.

The entire event is a fundraiser for the Idea Lab, which is a makers lab, located at Zane State College. Porter said people with small businesses or people looking to launch their small can come get help at the Idea Lab.

The self-funded lab is a membership-based work space with a variety of different equipment to help entrepreneurs create their prototypes, work on projects and come up with new ideas.

Porter said the festival will also be promoting memberships for the Idea Lab, which are about $20 per month or a one-time annual fee to receive full access to the facility. Currently there are about 48 members of the Idea Lab.

The event on Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., is free and open to the public. There will be pumpkin painting for children, lab demonstrations including laser engraving pumpkins and giant yard games including large Jenga, large connect four and corn hole.