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💠 Data Gems💠 Data Gems
💠 Data Gems

Create your own rules for tracking data that is meaningful to you.

🕐 1–1.5hr👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🥰 Age 8+🎨 Craft Materials
⚡ Paper Circuits⚡ Paper Circuits
⚡ Paper Circuits

Learn the basics of circuits while creating beautiful, interactive works of art!

🥰 Age 8+🕐 1–1.5hr👩‍👧‍👦 <10 Participants⚡️Low-tech Electronic
🐙 OctoStudio🐙 OctoStudio
🐙 OctoStudio

Bring the physical world into interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile devices with easy on-the-go creative coding.

🥰 Age 8+👩‍👧‍👦 <10 Participants🎨 Craft Materials🕐1.5–2hr
🍿 Sonic Seasoning🍿 Sonic Seasoning
🍿 Sonic Seasoning

Do you eat with your ears? How can we encourage healthy eating through sound?

🥰 All Ages👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🎨 Craft Materials🕐 1–1.5hr
💓 (In)visible Self💓 (In)visible Self
💓 (In)visible Self

What technologies and techniques can we use to build our inward-looking senses and enhance everyday skills for personal growth?

🥰 Age 8+👩‍👧‍👦 <12 Participants🕐 1–1.5hr🎨 Craft Materials
🐝 Beautiful Symmetry🐝 Beautiful Symmetry
🐝 Beautiful Symmetry

Explore a branch of mathematics that's profound, yet accessible to creative learners

🥰 All Ages🕐 1–1.5hr👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🎨 Craft Materials🐱Scratch Coding
🌍 Spatial Poetry🌍 Spatial Poetry
🌍 Spatial Poetry

Combine the expressive flexibility of poetic language and local data research skills to encourage a re-imagination of maps and renewed understanding of place

🥰 Age 5+👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🕐30–60min🎨 Craft Materials
🎈 Inflatables🎈 Inflatables
🎈 Inflatables

Imagine and design interactive, inflatable creations using recycled materials—like chip bags!

🥰 Age 10+🕐 1–1.5hr👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🎨 Craft Materials
🧑🏼‍🚀 Space Food🧑🏼‍🚀 Space Food
🧑🏼‍🚀 Space Food

Explore and create new inventions, experiences, and flavors to enhance the future of dining in outer space!

🥰 Age 8+👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🕐 1–1.5hr🎨 Craft Materials
👾 Scratch+micro:bit👾 Scratch+micro:bit
👾 Scratch+micro:bit

Combine storytelling, coding, and making and bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds

🥰 Age 8+👩‍👧‍👦 <8 Participants🕐1.5–2hr🎨 Craft Materials📟Micro:bit🐱Scratch Coding💻Computer
Urban EcologyUrban Ecology
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Urban Ecology

Develop your patrons' landscape literacy and environmental appreciation through hands-on exploration, data collection, and creation

🥰 Age 8+🕐 1–1.5hr👩‍👧‍👦 <15 Participants🎨 Craft Materials
CubeSatsCubeSats
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CubeSats

This is a series of workshops for exploring outer space environments using small, instrument- and sensor-laden spacecraft

🥰 Age 8+🕐1.5–2hr👩‍👧‍👦 <20 Participants🎨 Craft Materials
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