If you are in the Orlando area, please join us this weekend at the Orlando Kids’ Fringe Festival! You will experience live performances, music, dancers, and different community tables like ours, the Orlando Science Center, Crealdé School of Art, Central Florida Performing Arts, and more. Last week, there was even a shaving cream fight and dance party!

Here is a quick recap of the first weekend:

Caregivers Connect

Last weekend, we had the opportunity to meet parents, grandparents, piblings, kiddos, and so many artists to explain what Out Think Media is all about. I heard much about what you all need, how people handle YouTube—or decidedly do not yet—and which channels/creators families want me to review.

Our table displays activities based on popular kids’ media like YouTube, and we collected raffle tickets to win a Gamer Gift Basket from anyone who takes our survey before May 19th at 1:30 pm EST. We’ll announce the winner on Instagram first!

What’s in the Gamer Gift Basket?

If you’d like a Gamer Gift Basket for your school or organization’s fundraiser. please contact us.

Which Out Think Approved YouTubers Are in the Basket?

These aren’t gifts we chose at random. Each item won its place in our raffle basket based on the variety of YouTube channels and genres we reviewed. Some YouTube channels are educational, and some are silly fun, but these are shows your family can watch together.

Shiloh & Bros

Activity: “Make Your Own Pokemon, Minecraft, or Super Mario trading cards!”

I can’t help gushing over Shiloh & Bros, as you can see from my review. At first, they will sound like the loud gamers you don’t like. A closer listen, however, shows the characters that each sibling and friend developed for themselves over the years, plus the camaraderie and “no man left behind” mentality of their videos, typically games in real life. There is simulated violence, usually with Nerf guns, and not a drop of blood to be seen. Their games range from Pokemon-sponsored games (where they act out a game “in real life”) to water park challenges to mashups like “If Mario was in Among Us.“

Minecraft Gamers

We review all kinds of gamers here, but our favorite Minecraft channels include OG Minecraft YouTuber StampyCat, Shark (his main channel only and not with his friends), Pythonator, and xBcrafted.

Fortnite Gamers

If you aren’t sure what the deal with Vbucks is, check out our Fortnite primer here. Out of all the Fortnite YouTubers, we recommend SipherPK and the group PWR, which includes Lachlan Power, Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten, Vindooly (Victor Ton), Mitchell Power (Chanzes), and Lucas Grzesiak (Overstrand).

Rubik Cube YouTubers

Activity: Solve a Rubik’s Cube!

One day, I saw my kids teaching themselves how to solve Rubik’s cubes via tutorials. My favorite channel will always be Soup Timmy (Timothy Huynh), a Guinness World Record holder who does live artmaking with Rubik’s Cubes at parties. Nice work if you can get it!

Mark Rober of Crunch Labs

Activity: Engineering Station

Mark Rober is an ex-NASA and ex-Apple engineer. He grew his YouTube channel into one of the best engineering channels around. You may have heard of the glitter bomb package, how he exposed an international scam, or his Team Seas and Team Trees environmental ventures with MrBeast.

Last year, he launched Crunch Labs, a monthly subscription box that allows you to experience firsthand the thrills and pitfalls of the engineering process. If anyone can teach kids how to be comfortable with and embrace failure to take one step closer to success, it’s Rober.

For more information, check out our event page. To learn how Out Think can attend your event, email here.

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