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Designing for Connection

Facilitating Computational Tinkering is an Advancing Informal STEM Learning NSF project focusing on creating strategies to make computationally-rich...

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Creating Far-reaching Communities of Practice

The Tech&Play initiative is an international network of partners that develop and practice playful approaches to learning...

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Making Faces with the Scratch Education Collaborative (SEC)

October 28, 2021

Ryoko and I had the pleasure of collaborating with the Scratch Education Collaborative, a group of educators from 41 different...

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Building Joyful Connections with Chain Reactions

September 17, 2021

Over the past year and a half, we've been in many Zoom meetings. A LOT of Zoom meetings. This got us wondering: how can...

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Scratch Conference 2021: Animate Your World!

The Tinkering Studio team hosted a session on video sensing at Scratch Conference 2021. We knew our session would be...

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Tinkering with Technology and Play

The Tinkering Studio is part of a collaborative project with educators from around the world focusing on the intersections...

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Online Workshop Facilitation: Shadow Remix

February 8, 2021

While sheltering-in-place, our Tinkering Studio team continues to experiment and explore ways to facilitate hands-on...

Let it glow

Glowing Acrylic and Glowforge

December 31, 2019

In the Tinkering Studio we dream up new activities and test them out with the museum visitors. The process of trying out new...

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Computational Tinkering Mini Residency

November 23, 2019

In October we hosted a residency for our friends from MIT to explore topics related to computational tinkering. It’s a rare...

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Skill Share: How to Customize a Sprite in Scratch

Have you ever customized a sprite in Scratch? It's an easy way to make a unique project while utilizing the gorgeous variety...

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Microworlds: A Curated Scratch Experience

In the Tinkering Studio, we like to think of code as material. And like any material, our team makes conscious decisions about...

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The Art of Computational Tinkering with Paula Bontá

This month, we hosted computer scientist and playful inventor Paula Bontá in the Tinkering Studio. Paula is a longtime friend...