Programs & Projects

IDEA Cooperative
Invention, Design, Engineering and Art Cooperative is a partnership with the KAYSC: 100 youth will work as museum volunteers and staff, on teams, to learn engineering tools and technologies, and design and problem-solving skills, developing solutions for problems of interest to them and their community (funded by NSF-ITEST)

Innovative Teaching with Technology
Professional development workshops for teachers interested in learning creative technologies and exploring ways of integrating them into their curriculum (funded by the Best Buy Children's Foundation and Qwest)

PIE: Playful Invention and Exploration
A network of museums, led by the Exploratorium and the Science Museum of Minnesota, developing creative technology-based activities and sharing these activities and philosophy with museum educators and exhibit developers (funded by NSF-ISE)

SMILE
A project led by Lawrence Hall of Science to make the informal science resources that are available online more easily searchable and more relevant to science educators (funded by NSDL)