Game Design
Have you ever wanted to invent your own game? Use your imagination and game logic to create a new pastime, then share it with other visitors.
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Light Painting
What colors and patterns can you make using light? Join us in MAKESHOP to try our long-exposure camera setup to “paint” with light.
MAKESHOP: Recycled Scuplture
Join us in MAKESHOP as we reuse and repurpose household materials into sculptures of all shapes and sizes. Find inspiration in the shapes, patterns, textures, and colors of everyday objects, then try various attachment methods to build your own creation.
MAKESHOP: Inclined Planes
This month in MAKESHOP we are exploring simple machines. Join us as we investigate how inclined planes can make moving objects easier. Try adjusting angles and materials, then observe changes in speed and distance travelled.
MAKESHOP: Rube Goldberg™ Machines
Work together to create and activate chain-reaction contraptions that use everyday objects to complete simple tasks in the most over-complicated, inefficient and hilarious ways possible! Rube Goldberg™ machines are many things, but they aren’t perfect. Find the fun in failure as you step into the role of storyteller and inventor.
MAKESHOP: Wind Tunnel
How does air make things move? Experiment with different materials and place your creations into a wind tunnel. Can you make things soar, tumble, fly or fall?
MAKESHOP: Plastic Fusion
Explore how heat changes the properties of plastic! Join us in MAKESHOP as we use heat tools to fuse recycled plastic together. What textures and colors do you see? How can you make something new out of plastic scraps?
MAKESHOP: Circuit Block Building
Join us this weekend in MAKESHOP to help us build Circuit Blocks. Take apart old electronic devices and use simple hand tools to transform them into museum exhibit components! We'll be working collaboratively throughout the weekend on different parts of the process.
MAKESHOP: Cardboard Building
What’s special about the way cardboard can bend, move, fold, and provide support? Make new discoveries about this everyday material as we build sculptures, structures, and more using all kinds of cardboard.
MAKESHOP: Sewing
Join us in MAKESHOP as we explore the art and practice of sewing. Try different stitches, use needle and thread to attach fabric together, investigate the sensory qualities of fabric and fiber, and experiment with stuffing fabric shapes.