Current Programs
Community organizations and Schools
We work with Karen Thimmesch and Kent Sall of the Independent Museum Learners program at the Museum Magnet School in St. Paul. Elementary-aged students work on self directed projects that incorporate technology, and write about their work online.
Karen Randall teaches at Expo Elementary. Karen is working with the Scratch program and developers creating new approaches to incorporating technology in the classroom.
Science Connect is a searchable directory of Twin Cities Area groups, clubs, information centers, and other organizations making science connections.
Exhibits:
Art and Science Learning Technologies has hosted a series of workshops and is supporting an artist-in-residence programming for the Light exhibit project at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Throughout the year a series of artists have been engaged in the exploration of the aesthetics, physics, and cultural ideas associated with the phenomena of light.
Youth Science Center:
MyBEST The Science Museum of Minnesota's youth-based ITEST program engages inner city teens in creating a learning community for STEM education through creative technology projects led by adult professionals in sciences and the arts.
Teenage Designers of Learning Places for Children: Creating After-school Environments for STEM Education. Learning Places are educational environments supported by hands-on activities and innovative strategies that integrate science, mathematics and technology into after-school programs.
Past Programs
Studio 3D was a drop-in after-school program, located in the Walker Art Center sculpture garden, where young people, ages 10-18, learned to use high-end computer applications as tools for art, science, and technology, with the support of volunteer adult mentors. For more information, please see the Studio 3D site.