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"Digital Deck the Halls" Friday, December 11th, 2020, 5:00 - 7:00 PM Digitize and customize your holiday decorations with the micro:bit and two winter-themed circuit boards. Learn how to program the lights on the tree to twinkle and use the snowflake speaker to play your favorite tune. $35 Workshop +supplies/$51 Workshop + supplies + micro:bit for ages 9 and up Register Here

"My Snowfamily" Friday, December 4th, 2020, 5:00 - 7:00 PM Build your family to look like Snow-people in this 3D Printing workshop. Learn to use the alignment and duplication tools to make your snow family look picture-perfect. $40 for ages 9 and up Register Here

"Hungry Hungry Dot" Friday, November 20th, 2020 5:00 - 7:00 PM Make the micro:bit into a tiny, handheld game with Hungry Hungry Dot. The Dot will move around the display when you tilt the micro:bit. When the Dot touches food you gain a point! How fast can you move the Dot to eat all of the food? $25 Workshop/$36 Workshop+micro:bit for ages 9 and up Register Here

This class builds on what students learned in previous classes by creating more complex Minecraft games and developing code for more interesting game play. Age Range: Ages 10-14

Introduction to Minecraft Modding, or coding changes to the basic Minecraft game using Java. Students will use a drag-and-drop version of Java to create mini-games and learn about methods and variables, conditionals and loops. Age Range: Ages 10-14

This week has me thinking again about some of the historical impediments to Black inventors, although in a modern context, that has very little to do with civil rights. Remember that historic rules requiring inventors to state their citizenship were...

The U.S. legal system has both helped and hindered racial justice through our history, including the Supreme Court rulings that have ranged from horrifically racist mistakes to iconic civil rights victories.  On the one hand, there's the notorious Dredd Scott decision,...

Some inventions are important.  Some relate to complex technology.  Some are strange, silly, dangerous, or all three wrapped together.  Next week we'll post about a more serious side of patents.  But for this week, here are some more examples of...

It's an exciting break from day-to-day emails or Web-surfing to check out BOINC and say, "Oh, look, the computer's searching for pulsars now." I am typing this on what looks like a perfectly normal laptop computer. I'm at home, comfortable;...

Last week we wrote about a few inventions that were patented by kids.  Once you start to dig into this, it's amazing - although maybe not surprising -  how inventive kids really are.  Some are on the goofy side, like...