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Use a Pico Cricket (micro-controller) to animate your art! You can program a Pico Cricket to make your art spin, light up, or make music.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this engineering activity, learners explore simple machines and then build cardboard automata using cams.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, you take regular dominoes, and turn them into conductive switches that can turn on a LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket (micro controller). LEGO RCX block or Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, a Minnesota artist, came up with this really fun and surprising activity using graphite from a pencil, connected with a Pico Cricket to tell a story: "The first time I saw s

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this technology activity, learners build simple circuits, design soft circuits using conductive thread, and then sew switch-activated circuits.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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This is a web page that helps informal educators brainstorm on how to use a Pico Cricket (tiny computer) in an informal activity.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this mechanical engineering activity, learners design shadow puppets with moving parts and use them to tell stories.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 2 to 4 hours