Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
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MAKESHOP: Wood – Drills and Drivers
Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
MAKESHOP: Wood – Drills and Drivers
Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
MAKESHOP: Wood – Drills and Drivers
Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
MAKESHOP: Wood – Drills and Drivers
Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
MAKESHOP: Wood – Drills and Drivers
Join us in MAKESHOP as we work with wood tools! Learn how to use drills and drivers to make holes and turn screws. Which wood tools do you recognize? What kinds of things are made using these tools?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
MAKESHOP: Magnets
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with magnets! Explore the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. How do they work? Can you build a sculpture held together using only magnetic force?
STEM Saturday
Celebrate innovative and inclusive STEM learning with FREE hands-on activities, live demonstrations and creative experiences outdoors on Rainbow Road and at MuseumLab!
Outside the Museum, 10:00 am – Noon
- Obstacle course drone flying by Center for Aviation Training & Technology at Hosanna House
- Robot demonstrations with BotsIQ
- Catapult building and painting
Outside the Museum, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
- Motorcycle Take Apart
- See live alpacas and alpaca fiber spinning with The Crafty Alpacas
- Weaving and coding with CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
- Nebula spin art with Moonshot Museum
- 3D die cut chips with Protohaven and Dick Esterle
- Fossil exploration with Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Loom weaving
- Electronic music performances by CMU Electronic Music Program
- Make UV bead bracelets, Afrofuturism Adinkra bookmarks and dotted Mandala art with Assemble
- Fun with the Carnegie Science Center
In MuseumLab, Noon – 5:00 pm
- Experience Full Tilt, a multi-player pinball-like experience, with CMU Entertainment Technology Center
- Try claymation and clay sculpting
- Electronics Take Apart
- Make your own kinetic paintings
- Create stop motion animation
- Discover the Dah-Varsity AI platform with Toyz Electronics
Additional STEM activities will be offered in Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Regular admission rates for the Children’s Museum apply.
STEM Saturday is part of Remake Learning Days Southwestern PA 2025, #RemakeLearningDaysSWPA. Learn more at https://remakelearningdays.org/.
Recycle Fest
In honor of Earth Month, join us for a campus-wide recycling festival!
Aluminum Can Drive
Help us get more aluminum recycled in our community by donating empty aluminum cans to our drive. All donors receive one free admission per family of four, good for admission on April 5, 2025.
Aluminum cans are 100% recyclable and when recycled, the metal in an aluminum can will be back on store shelves in just 60 days.
AT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
10:00 am – Noon
- Performance and game show hosted by O’Ryan the O’Mazing
- Learn about sustainability from these local environmental organizations:
- Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- PGH20
- Rewind Reuse
- PittMoss
- Pennsylvania Resources Council
- City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Environmental Services
Noon – 4:00 pm
- Recycled scavenger hunt
- Papermaking with Katy Dement
- Transforming plastic with Reimagined Recycling
- Glass mosaic-making with Sarah Cohen
AT MUSEUMLAB
1:00 – 4:00 pm
- Recycled dioramas with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
- Art making with Tough Artist Kelly Jimenez of La Vispera
- Clothing upcycling with The Andy Warhol Museum
- Tote bag upcycling with Rona Chang of Otto Finn
- Eco-Artisans & Maker Market featuring local sustainable vendors, including:
- China Jones Art
- Jess Peña Heberle
- Cathy Olivar Brand
- Homegrown 1910
- Henna by Soni
- True North Creations
- Reading Room Pittsburg
- Emily Krill Studio
- Charmed by Nature
- Art House Mosaic
- Tabulous
- SusanMcclellanArt
- Les Is More 894
- Colorcopia Studio
All activities are included with museum admission.
This event is generously supported by the Ball Foundation and PPG Foundation.
MAKESHOP: Shrinky Dinks
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your own shrunken keychain charm! Decorate a sheet of plastic and use heat tools to shrink it into a customized wearable accessory.
MAKESHOP: Shrinky Dinks
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your own shrunken keychain charm! Decorate a sheet of plastic and use heat tools to shrink it into a customized wearable accessory.
MAKESHOP: Shrinky Dinks
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your own shrunken keychain charm! Decorate a sheet of plastic and use heat tools to shrink it into a customized wearable accessory.
MAKESHOP: Shrinky Dinks
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your own shrunken keychain charm! Decorate a sheet of plastic and use heat tools to shrink it into a customized wearable accessory.