Museum Colleagues,
Exhibits and programs related to making and tinkering are now important aspects of many science centers' offerings, for good reason. Tinkering is an engaging, fun, valuable means of doing what scientists and engineers do. How can we move our tinkering and making programming and thinking to the next level?
Join colleagues for a deep dive into different program models for engaging learners of all ages in engineering and problem solving through tinkering. Only 8 spots remain for "Designing the Tinkering Experience," the first in a new series of workshops created to propel your making and tinkering programs and environments to the next level.
This workshop will be held at the Montshire Museum of Science, a regional science center on the banks of the Connecticut River in Norwich, Vermont September 27-29. Sessions will include developing criteria for strong making and tinkering programs that fit your unique institution, designing collaborative learning environments, understanding strengths and challenges of different program models, sharing and practicing simple evaluation instruments, and opportunities to extend the learning through kits and outreach.
"I appreciated the opportunity to remember that we are all makers and do not need to be highly specialized-or make uber complex things-to develop awesome programming."-Past participant in Montshire workshop
"Hands-on work is so useful to help understand what the program attendees would feel like!"-Past participant in Montshire workshop
Designing the Tinkering Experience
Wednesday-Friday, September 27-29
Montshire Museum of Science
Norwich, Vermont
For more information, including registration, visit http://www.astc.org/profdev/tinkering-workshop-series/
Workshop Topics:
* Activity design and developing criteria and philosophy for your own tinkering and making programs.
* Designing for a collaborative learning environment
* Sharing facilitation techniques and facilitator training materials.
* Sharing evaluation instruments to both improve design and make your case to your organization's stakeholders and leadership.
* Using kits to extend the tinkering and making beyond the walls of the Museum to the kitchen table.
* Opportunities for outreach, lessons shared by all participants.
Schedule:
Wednesday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Casual group dinner and tinkering at the museum
Thursday, 8:30am -5:00pm
Developing your tinkering philosophy
Let's talk about spaces
Review of tinkering spaces
Tinkering activities
Friday, 8:30 am - 1:30pm
Learning practices
Facilitating learning in making and tinkering spaces
Evaluation tools
Meeting makers beyond the science center
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Wendy Hancock
Senior Program Manager, Professional Development
Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)
818 Connecticut Avenue, NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-2734
Phone: (202) 783-7200 x117
Fax: (202) 783-7207
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Expand your mind, delight your soul: When you sign up for the 2017 ASTC Annual Conference<http://www.astc.org/conference/> (October 21-24 in San Jose, California), grab the opportunity to explore the other world-class science centers and museums nearby in these exclusive preconference and post conference experiences<http://www.astc.org/conference/tours/>.
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