2017 Summer Program
- Mon, Aug 21 - Aug 25, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Designed for ages 9, 10, 11 and 12
- 297.00 per child
- By Andrew Sargent, Site Historian & Lead Educator,
and Wm Brown, Director Emeritus, EWM
All workshops need rules for safety. Those are obvious. But there are other rules that are needed to make a shared space work And how do we ensure the workshop is a collaborative place where people share ideas, tools and materials?
We have the tools, the materials…but how will the class come together to use them creatively?
There will be:
Collaboration
Recreate the work of Masahiko Sato at Keio University that produces the magnificent Rube Goldberg devices for NHK's Pythagoras Switch (ピタゴラスイッチ Pitagora Suitchi). A class relay in which the whole is only as good as any of its parts. The all must work individually for the whole to work.
Competition
Work through a simplified version of Woodie Flower's robotics challenges at MIT that inspired the First Robotics programs…and many college Design Labs.
Transformation
Otherwise known as 'hacking'. Create a robot from found objects. Visit the studio of Susan Clinard, the Museum's artist in residence to look at the art she has created from found objects.
Challenges
Neil Downie is a British scientist who has designed original projects to explain the math and science of 'things'. We will explore a number of them and perhaps come up with ideas of our own.
