Workshops run at the end of my residency at the Discovery Museum to celebrate the opening of their Play+Invent maker space. Each was loosely based on the pieces made and situated within the museums galleries.
Family STEAM Workshops
Making Movements
On, Off, Up, Down, Round and Round. Cogs, Cams, Levers, Pulleys and Belts.
Come along and learn to make your cardboard creations come to life with moving elements.
Drawing inspiration from the mechanical movements of the vintage coin-operated amusement machines currently found in the Museums ‘All the Fun of the Fair: 135 Years of The Hoppings’ exhibit and the wonderful engines up in the Science Maze.
What will you invent?
Journey to Mars
Did you know NASA have set out a detailed plan of what we need to do and learn in order to send the first humans to Mars? It could even be you!
Before we get there there’s going to be an awful lot of work. The first explorers are going to need a lot of new technologies and inventions, from space suits to protect from the atmosphere, methods for growing food on Mars, surface transportation and maybe even a translator for communicating with any Martians they might meet.
Join in and become a space pioneer by creating an invention that helps solves one of the many challenges that we’ll face on our way to Mars.
How different would things look today if you’d been the one to design the first car, steam engine or washing machine?
Create:Collaborate
Together let’s build a gigantic, whirring, whizzing machine to help solve everyday problems.
Every invention is made up of lots of different parts and many of these parts often already exist.
Many useful inventions have been made by reusing old ideas or parts, thinking about them differently and connecting them in new ways.
Whatever you decide to build each group will begin with the same set of individual parts.
How you arrange them, how you add to them and what they become is up to you!
At the end of the workshop you’ll be able to see what the other groups made with the same starting blocks and see how your ideas help shape different outcomes to the same problem.
How different would things look today if you’d been the one to design the first car, steam engine or washing machine?
