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If you are looking for more information, feel free to look around here.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who came by and thank you for everyone who volunteered to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you also to <a title=\"Allentown Economic Development Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/allentownedc.com\/\">AEDC<\/a> and <a title=\"Hive 4A\" href=\"http:\/\/hive4a.org\">Hive 4A<\/a> for being critical partners in making this opportunity available to us.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.333712270023210.77977.136884579705981&amp;type=3\">more pictures on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We ran out of soldering handouts at the festival. 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