Category: stem
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Explore + Discover Together: DNA
Explore + Discover Together: DNA In this art and science program, participants will marvel as they get up close to DNA while exploring the physical characteristic that’s been used to separate us, skin tone. Infinitely riffable based on your population. Full Program Description Investigate the molecule responsible for the incredible diversity of humankind with hands-on…
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Creation Station: Create-a-Crown
Creation Station: Create-a-Crown Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and supplies — you create your own masterpiece. Make wearable crowns inspired by the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Supplies and setup Assets printable 11″ x 17″ instructions | copy & edit images in Canva
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Explore + Discover Together: Juneteenth
Explore + Discover Together: Juneteenth In this registered program for families, we read the book My America by Ashley Bryan and Jan Spivey Gilchrist, and chatted over prompts in the art and craft projects. Full Program Description On June 19, we nationally commemorate the day in 1865 when, two and a half years after the…
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Tote-ally Terrific Batik
Tote-ally Terrific: DIY Batik Bags First, learn a little bit about the history of batik around the world with a scratch-off map. Then make your own “batik”-style canvas bag or tote using a glue resist technique with acrylic paint. This project was given out as a craft kit during the pandemic, but it could be…
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Creation Station: Clay Bowls
Creation Station: Clay Bowls Participants will gain exposure to the similarities among a wide variety of historical cultures, marvel at human ingenuity and creativity, and feel connected as they join a long tradition of human creativity by making their own clay bowl! Full Program Description Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and…
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Scavenger Hunt: In Living Color
Scavenger Hunt: In Living Color See human skin color as just another one of nature’s amazing ways of creating conditions for survival! Full Program Description In this scavenger hunt, kids encounter different ways that animals use color to survive, including humans. Framing skin color as an adaptation that we can look at just like all…
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Explore + Discover Together: Beads
Explore + Discover Together: Beads Add an easy DIY scratch-off map to any family program that uses beads. Participants will gain a little exposure to a wide variety of world cultures, marvel at human ingenuity and creativity, and feel connected as they join a long tradition of human creativity. Full Program Description Did you know…
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Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles
Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles Participants discover many ways that people around the world use light in various holiday celebrations, then create a decorative candle craft. Full Program Description Explore holidays from various cultures that use candles as part of the celebrations. Then create a festive and unique set of candles. “Tall, I…
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Family Engineering Rubberband Cars
Family Engineering: Rubberband Cars Participants use the engineering design process to create rubberband-powered cars. Then, they learn about little-known Black inventors who helped make our roads and vehicles safer and are invited to imagine and create an invention to help improve car or road safety! Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to…
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Family Engineering Earthquake Challenge
Family Engineering: Earthquake Challenge In this hands-on program, participants experiment to create structures that can withstand earthquake-mimicking shaking. Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to solve problems and help make the world a better place – just like real engineers! How do architects make buildings that can withstand earthquakes? The Instrumental Seismic…
