Young Makers at the Exploratorium
We're thrilled to be heading back to the Exploratorium this Saturday for the first Young Makers event put on by Make, the Exploratorium, TechShop, and Pixar.
Here's a little bit about the program from Make's writeup: "It's a first experiment in a new program we call Young Makers, in which we intend to create an infrastructure to nurture kids who want to learn by making, beyond what they can do with construction kits. We hope to fulfill a dire need: satisfying a little bit of what shop classes used to do before they, lamentably, started getting booted out of schools."
We hope to see you there this Saturday between 11 am and 3 pm. There will be BristleBot building going on, as well as BlinkyBug building with our friend Ken Murphy. Ken also has an exhibit called A History of the Sky that is at the Exploratorium through the end of the month and is definitely worth seeing. If you can't make it this weekend, they've got a great line-up of folks for the last Saturday of each month leading up to Maker Faire:
February 27th: Wearables & Soft Circuitry -- Adrian Freed March 27th: Make Your Own Kind of Music -- Walter Kitundu and Krys Bobrowski April 24th: Motors & Mechanisms -- Brad Prether and Ernie Fosselius
Update: Dale Dougherty posted an article about the event here.
