Make Day
Saturday, May 14, 2011
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Celebrate the ingenuity and inventiveness in our community. Make Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota gives local engineers, artists, tinkerers, and inventors the opportunity to showcase their DIY creations and innovations to museum visitors. This family-friendly event features arts, electronics, musical performances, green technology, crafting and more!
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Make Day 2011: Saturday, May 14 - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
This Year's Makers
Festivities will take place throughout the museum's exhibit galleries. The event is included in the regular admission price. Presenters are subject to change.
Science Museum Exhibit Shop "Open House" 12–3 p.m.
Come check out the Science Museum's Exhibit shop and chat with our own exhibit fabricators about the ultimate maker workshop.
Ax-Mania!
A tiny taste of Ax-Man at the Science Museum! Stop by and play with this eclectic mix of maker supplies.
Ax-Man Surplus has been a part of the Twin Cities for over 50 years. Stop by one of their four metro locations to peruse their eclectic stock.
Blacksmith Forge
See how a blacksmith forge works to twist, bend, and shape hot iron with a hammer, anvil, and heat.
The Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center provides creative and educational opportunities in support of the "fire arts," which includes sculptural welding, blacksmithing, glass work, jewelry-making, and other fields.
Body Pong
Compete against your friends in a game of pong where you use your body to play.
The Science Museum's Learning Technologies Center hosts classes and workshops that use digital technologies to teach creative design to young people.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is on display in our Collections Gallery on Level 4. Makers won't want to miss these clever machines that use simple components to create complex motions. See if you can figure out how they work.
Building Cups
What happens when you use cups as building blocks? Play around with the different properties of plastic, paper, and Styrofoam cups.
The Science Museum's Learning Technologies Center hosts classes and workshops that use digital technologies to teach creative design to young people.
Kinetic Sculpture
Try playing this musical instrument: consisting of a DC motor, crankshaft, solenoids, and a constructed steel frame that make sounds similar to a musical saw.
Jack Pavlik is a Minnesota artist who creates kinetic sculptures.
Looping Lab
Make music with MmmTsss and Tone Matrix from the MIT Media Lab and AM Laboratory. Create music loops by yourself or with a crowd.
The Science Museum's Learning Technologies Center hosts classes and workshops that use digital technologies to teach creative design to young people.
Make Your Own Planisphere
Minnesota Astronomical Society
Make a planisphere to calculate the positions of the stars and constellations any time of the year.
The Minnesota Astronomical Society is one of the largest and most active amateur astronomy organizations in the U.S.
Mini Mill and Rep-Rap
Come check out a mini-mill used for making circuit boards and milling molds for casting, and student-made 3D Printer demonstrated by the digital fabrication laboratory that couples equipment and software with inventors, tinkerers and entrepreneurs.
Century College's Digital Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) is a "hi-teck tinkers" workshop for inventors and designers.
Paper Sculptures
Cut and fold paper with artist Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, then add your building to a collaborative city scene.
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund is a 2008-2009 McKnight Artist Fellow who has exhibited locally and nationally. Her work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Pinball Circuitry
Learn about basic circuitry while designing and building a pinball game with materials you can find around the house.
The Science Museum's Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center encourages young people to engage in experiential learning related to STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).
Robotics
Check out a variety of robotics including robotic arms, small robots that kids can try out, and a large robot used for the FIRST competition.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded is a not-for-profit public charity that designs programs to motivate young people to pursue education and career opportunities in STEM fields.
Savage Aural Hotbed
Watch the unique performance of Savage Aural Hotbed as they blend Japanese Taiko drumming with industrial sounds using conventional, "found object" and homemade instruments.
Solar Powered Boats
Check out miniature motorboats powered by the sun! Experiment with photovoltaic panels, try out different solar boat designs, and have races with your friends.
Kidwind offers affordable educational materials for teaching energy science.
Squishy Circuits
University of St. Thomas Engineering
Bring your sculpted creations to life using lights, motors, and conductive and non-conductive playdough.
Squishy Circuits are a project from the Thomas Lab at the University of St. Thomas.
TapeScape
TapeScape at the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota's Play Lab
How do you make a landscape with packing tape? Come check out mini-tape scapes created by youth.
TapeScape is a massive sculpture and indoor landscape for children to explore that's made completely out of packing tape.
Twin Cities Maker
Check out the Treb-Foshay (a working Trebuchet), use barbecue sized tweezers on a life-sized game of Operation, and make a circuit on a 10x scale breadboard.
Twin Cities Maker operates a shared workspace known as the Hack Factory in Minneapolis.
Wind Instruments
The WorksUse popsicle sticks, straws, and rubber bands to make a wacky wind instrument with The Works!
The Works is a non-profit museum in Edina, MN that provides STEM learning through hands-on exhibits and programs.
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