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Choose your favorite planet, or planets, and make a wearable button with its likeness. Using available images and our handy button press, you can create a pin-back button with Earth, Mars, Venus or whatever your favorite planet may be. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Choose your favorite planet, or planets, and make a wearable button with its likeness. Using available images and our handy button press, you can create a pin-back button with Earth, Mars, Venus or whatever your favorite planet may be. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Ever wonder how a kaleidoscope works? Understand the science by creating your own in The Shop! Combine a variety of materials with angled reflective surfaces to build this traditional toy which gets its name from Greek words meaning “beautiful form to see.” Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Stop by this exploration station to create a wearable celebration of your favorite educator. Wear the button you create, or give it to the favorite educator in your life, to say thanks for helping foster a love of lifelong learning, just like The Discovery!

Combine physics with classic tic tac toe when you create a catapult and a game board in The Shop. Using available tools and materials, you’ll create a simple catapult you can use to launch X’s and O’s into your game board. Get three in a row and you’re the winner! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in…

Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Celebrate advancements in space exploration with a shrinky dink you create in The Shop. Using thermoplastic, you can design your own object to shrink into a keychain, earrings, pendent, or whatever you can imagine. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Celebrate advancements in space exploration with a shrinky dink you create in The Shop. Using thermoplastic, you can design your own object to shrink into a keychain, earrings, pendent, or whatever you can imagine. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

In this Exploration Station, participants will learn about how scientists and engineers use robotic rovers and other vehicles to explore distant worlds, and experience some of the challenges and teamwork required to navigate a rover across the surface of a planet millions of miles away. Players acting as “Mission Control” and a “Rover” must work together to navigate a large obstacle course. Participants can also design their own rover to overcome the particular challenges of exploring a distant planet.

Visit The Shop to create a creepy, crawly motorized monster just in time for Halloween. Using available materials, batteries and miniature motors, you can create a scary, wiggling robot. Best of all, what you create is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Visit The Shop to use a variety of materials to create your very own Halloween themed straw rocket. What you make is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.  

Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.  

Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.