Inspiration for our 2020 Summer Finale
With Special Surprise Visitors
Watch the Video Below!
In 2005, Matt Harding, not quite 30, quit his job as a game designer to explore the world. A companion began videoing Matt dancing a simple jig to mark the locations they visited. They compiled and posted this travelogue on the then new service, YouTube. It touched a chord.
Inspiration for our 2020 Summer Finale
With Special Surprise Visitors
Watch the Video Below!
In 2005, Matt Harding, not quite 30, quit his job as a game designer to explore the world. A companion began videoing Matt dancing a simple jig to mark the locations they visited. They compiled and posted this travelogue on the then new service, YouTube. It touched a chord.
Escape the cares that have confined us. Join 5 explorers – ancient and modern – whose unbounded curiosity and courage guided them into the unknown. Build a micro-fleet of ships and discoveries that they encountered. Follow their journeys on Google Earth that is at your fingertips.
• Build a ship from Queen Hapshepsut's fleet that traded treasures along the Red Sea 3000 years ago.
• Build Ibn Batuta's Dhow that explored the traveled from the east Asian Seas in 1350.
Each day we will begin with a platform: common tools and materials. A challenge will lend a little direction. Some teaching will introduce the materials. Your task: work out what you want to make of it.
Wood: Combine a wooden Alphabet Block with random wood parts, glue and paint to create a character, creature, a robot or a whatever?
A week of model making will utilize the power and precision of our laser cutter. Participants will explore pattern and repetition by designing a unique napery (paper doily.) Building on skills throughout the week participants will design edge-lit Plexiglas LED lamps, folded paper polyhedra mobiles, and an architectural model. A look at the studios of Buckminster Fuller,
Participants must have a Mac or PC with Rhino 6 installed. A 90 day free trial is available at https://www.rhino3d.com/download
Pokémon’s complicated world evolved out of its creator’s childhood love of the Japanese custom of collecting and training insects. He observed improbable creatures and the domains they inhabited.
Early Egyptians believed in eternity. They recorded the stories of their Pharaohs and people for you to understand 4,000 years later.
Discover how. They built massive pyramids to protect the remains of their Pharaohs against time and thieves. They included models of all the comforts of life forever. Build a Pyramid to house the tomb and place the Sphinx outside to guard it.
Sometimes hiding information is a battle. Sometimes it is a game.
This is a game.
Learn the basics of ciphers, or codes: how they can hide secrets, and how those secrets can be revealed. Practice your hacking and decryption skills by tackling a series of challenges to uncover a conspiracy. Build your own Wadsworth cipher machine, and learn the basics of SSH to access remote servers. Then, work together to outsmart your peers. Join one of two teams to create your own codes, and to intercept and decipher the other's.
Designs for The Bauhaus Project were developed by apprentices whose stipends were funded by the Arts Endowment of The CT DECD: Connecticut Office of the Arts.
After World War I, artists and architects in Germany pledged to employ design and the power of the Industrial Revolution to make simple, useful, affordable products for a better world. They called their school Bauhaus - the building place. They invented modern design.
Balance is not something you are taught, it’s something you learn by experiment. You were a toddler until, with lots of tries and fails, you mastered walking.
Circus performers know this. They seem to defy the laws of gravity that most of us live by – and they, with lots of tries and falls, master amazing skills which defy equilibrium.
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