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50 years ago, the Dutch-American illustrator Peter Spier published The Erie Canal, a rich visual guide to America’s greatest constructed waterway.

Spier’s joyful artwork will guide your building of a section of Connecticut’s Farmington Canal that connected New Haven to Massachusets. Construct a mini Passenger Boat, a Cargo Boat, a working lock (for outside play), a low bridge, and the Taverns and Stables that grew up along the canal.

Immerse yourself in the first community to community network. Visit the remains of the Canal with video.

In Strategy Games, a community of players master the thinking and motives of characters with enhanced powers. Those characters act out stories.

Join a community of novice and experienced players. You will receive characters and the rules they live by. You will construct a portion of the story’s set. You will play out scenarios in small groups.

Even across distances you can test the wit and resourcefulness of your friends.

500 years ago, Leonardo daVinci said: I learn best, not from words, but from experience. Build 7 projects inspireed by his drawings to understand what he meant.

Wind the wheels of a Rubber band-powered Car. Tilt the ramps of a Marble Tree. Crank the tempo of a robot drum. Retract the arm of a (pingpong ball) catapult. Align the bricks of an artful Tower. Adjust the equilibria of a Marble Relay. Notice how much your fingers give you to think about.

Share your work. Celebrate hands in a time of cautious touching.

To be successful in the Wizarding World you need the proper equipment. A wand, a 'pet' owl or the like, a good selection of potions and spells, your uniform needs and that particular item that gives you your special skill. But where to find them? At the Diagon Alley Wizard's 'bazaar' of course!

They may be centers of commerce. They may be outposts of power. Some are beautiful. Some merely practical.

Construct your castle. Start with strong walls, a drawbridge and moat, or not. Construct a throne room and high towers to see and be seen far away, or not. Construct a stable for the horses and knights, or not. Create rulers, jesters, and soldiers, or not. Everyone has a castle in their mind. Build yours.

Connect all the castles on a digital stream as the Rhine River links the Castles of Europe.

The Laser Cutter is a powerful and precise machine that you can control from your keyboard.

Learn basic design drawing. Solve a design challenge. Send your drawing to our Workshop.You can watch on a live camera as an Apprentice loads your work. Create an intricate paper polygon, a desk mate pencil caddy, and gears to explore movement.

Cut and etch an acrylic figure and illuminate it with LEDs. Craft an acrylic bubble wand. [Bubble solution included.]

Japan values mastery - the virtuosity of well practiced hands. Encounter customs and craft that preserve this tradition.

Begin each day with Radio Calisthenics [ラジオ体操] - quiet stretching to focus your mind and body. Construct and learn a spinning top each day (Japan has more than 300 top types.) Sample the caligraphy, paper folding, and balancing arts that help refine skillful hands.

Share play with each other, and children in Japan, 6,700 miles away.

The joy of getting to know birds? They educate your senses. Your ears learn the rhythms and pitches of their songs. Your eyes learn their colors, the gait of their wing, their appetites and habitats.

Antoinette Poris' book, Not a Box, is a guide book to invention. It’s young artist was master of - literaily - thinking inside and outside of boxes.

You will start with a box of boxes. And tape, glue, sticky back colors, paper tubes... and surprise materials to spark your imagination. Each day a challenge will guide work: Can you make a happy mask, a sad mask? A intergalactic pet? A miniature golf hole? A cottage and furniture for a house Elf? A musical instrument? More?

Share a parade, a play, an orchestra, a golf course, an elf village... and more.

Exactly 200 years ago a Danish scientist, Hans Christian Ørsted, discovered the connection between magnetism and electricity. The electric motor was born.

Celebrate Ørsted’s gift. Use small motors to shape light and perception, to make music (or at least clatter), to elevate rings on waves, to help small figures dance, draw, or parade.

All these experiments are designed to share and play well with others.