Programs

  • Library-based workshops in game design , digital storytelling and animation, and playful technology explorations (funded by Best Buy Children’s Foundation)
  • IDEA Cooperative : Invention, Design, Engineering and Art Cooperative is a partnership with the YSC: 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 : PD workshops for teachers interested in learning creative technologies and exploring ways of integrating them into their curriculum (funded by Best Buy Children’s Foundation and Qwest)
  • PIE: Playful Invention and Exploration is a network of museums, led by the Exploratorium and SMM, 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 LHS to make the informal science resources that are available online more easily searchable and more relevant to science educators (funded by NSDL)