Spark!Lab

Included with museum admission

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Spark!Lab is a hands-on invention workspace where children and their families and friends can learn about and engage in the history and process of invention. It is a space to engage the entire family while presenting challenges ranging from simple to complex and allowing all visitors to recognize their inner Inventor!
  • Invention is a process.
  • Everyone is inventive.
  • Invention and innovation have been – and continue to be – an important part of the American Experience.
History, science, engineering, and art are incorporated throughout the lab.

Activities:
  • Invent-A-Vehicle
    Build a vehicle to be used on another planet. Vehicles are made from reusable materials, and components are on a scale that encourages collaboration and imaginative play.
  • Soundscapes Use different blocks and musical/noise-making elements to create music and sound pathways for marbles.
  • Marble Run Learn about geometric shapes, engineering, physics, magnets, number counting, and architectural and structural design while building a marble run.
  • Kapla Blocks/Teeter Table
    Use blocks to build structures under challenging – and unstable- circumstances. To build towers, buildings, and other structures, you have to be creative in how you use the building space and balance your structures – especially since you may not be the only inventor hard at work!
  • Spark!Lab Jr Read a book, measure the distance between two objects, examine bugs under a magnifying glass are just a few of the activities awaiting our younger guests.
Come and be an inventor with us!


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STEAM Literature Series (SLS)

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Join us Thursdays at 10:00 for stories and hands-on activities!

Content of schedule subject to change