SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2025) – The Exploratorium is proud to be a partner of San Francisco Climate Week, presented by Climatebase, and host a series of engaging events, including the keynote by Vice ...

Shawn Rowe carries out research related to the intersections of everyday and STEM ways of knowing and thinking. With a background in applied linguistics and developmental psychology, his work has ...

You will see four different images, each showing a starting cell and four sex cells (eggs or sperm) generated from the starting cell through meiosis. All four images are correct, but they represent ...

Latinx+ Engineering Day is part of the Exploratorium's ongoing commitment to inclusivity and representation in STEM education. The event is designed to be accessible and engaging for all, regardless ...

In this blog post, I’d like to delve deeper into what happens in this shared idea space of “Ideas are between us”, using the development of Tinker with a View with OctoStudio activities as an example.

Since last year, we've been doing some interesting R&Ds on light and shadow using the CPX, and I wanted to document and share some project examples here. CPX, which stands for Circuit Playground ...

Tinkering Inventive Play Sets (TIPS) As part of this network, in addition to our recent light and shadow idea shares, we've been developing playful learning experiences we're calling Tinkering ...

Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer/tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, engineers, prints, codes, and creates kinetic and interactive work. She has taught at The School of Poetic Computation, ...

At the Exploratorium booth at this year's Maker Faire, we invited visitors to work together to build five collaborative Rube Goldberg machines over the course of the weekend. On Saturday we set off ...

Before our workshop, we facilitated spinning tops for our Right to Play colleagues who were then able to become in-person facilitators of the workshop in Rwanda while Deanna and I joined remotely. We ...

Tinkering in Early Childhood Tinkering is more than a collection of activities. It is a constructivist approach to learning based on the premise that all learners are competent and capable of making ...

Last week we had a prototyping session in person (with Ryoko and Steph joining over zoom) and we brought a few of these ideas into physical form. Some of the questions that we’re thinking about is ...