Explore Our Selection of Original Programs:
All for Ages Youth to Adult;
All Mapped to State Common Core.
Livestream & In-Person
If you'd like your school, library, or community venue to host our online and in-person interactive programs visit Contact & Booking. You can also look into Funding Options for assistance in paying for STEMpunk™ programming as well as explore our Free Resources.
May The Force (of Static Electricity) Be with You!
A Star Wars themed science exploration where we'll learn to use The Force (of Static Electricity) to levitate and repel objects, power light tubes, propel spacecraft, generate lightning, and more! There'll be lots of opportunities for padawans to perform Jedi tricks themselves.
➤ In-Person Delivery Only
Ages 6/7-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Home Computing 1965: before the Microchip
Coding and gaming like you've never seen them! Visit the nearly lost era of analog, hard-wired, and mechanical computing and experience first hand how the founders and builders of the modern digital revolution learned about programming and played with computers at home.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 9/10-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
When Slide Rules Ruled: A History & Primer in Use
You've seen Slide Rules in movies and museums, and now here's your chance to learn about their history and actually how to use them. There will be hands-on activities that help you visualize how numbers work and an environment designed for beginners and those who never thought they could do math before.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 9/10-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Marble-ous Machines: Ingenious Marble Computers
See computing and gaming in a whole new way by getting hands-on time with marble-driven computers, calculators, and logic games. You'll learn about binary math, get a rare glimpse into what actually happens inside computer circuits, and create arithmetic and logic programs to solve problems ... all with marbles!
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Automata: Simple Machines Mimicking Life
Introduction to the nearly lost history, art, and science behind clockwork toys that mimic animal and human life. Learn the basic mechanisms of automata, trace their evolution from the Renaissance to the digital era, and have hands-on time exploring automata models.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Fairies in the Cogwork: STEM & Fairy Tales
Explore one of the Victorian era's most popular tales of wonder, enchantment, and peril before identifying and solving a character’s main challenge using a contraption you build based on the 6 Simple Machines. Who needs magic when you’ve got STEM on your side?
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 7/8-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Difference Engines: Mechanical Computers
Before the digital era engineers and tradespeople built elegant engines of logic to aid in their calculations. Visit a world where bones, beads, and cogs are the cutting edge of computation. Lots of hands-on time with antique computing machines and artifacts awaits!
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 9/10-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
A HISTORY OF SECRECY: ANALOG CIPHERs & ENCRYPTION
Cyber-security may be a buzz-word of the 21st century, but the art of keeping information secret goes back thousands of years. We'll learn about famous (and infamous) encryption systems and practice encrypting, sending, receiving, and decrypting messages using vintage tools.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
SOL: A Solar System Journey
Explore our sun SOL and discover that despite being "in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Galaxy," the mysteries and magic of our Solar System, Earth, and Moon are far from "unregarded." Join us as we chart an arc of observing and learning across our sky.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Fly Me to the Moon: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
The greatest achievement of engineering and science in human history .and you missed it! Here's your chance to experience the 8 days from July 16-24, 1969 while three astronauts did what cultures around the Earth had dreamed of for millennia - travel to the Moon and back.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 7/8-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Steampunk Writing Workshop
Explore Steampunk’s always fantastic, often humorous, and occasionally disturbing world of retro-futurism, speculative science fiction, and the Victorian era. Learn what it takes to become a paleo-futurist writer, how to approach the 'punk' in Steampunk, and how to use character and worldbuilding labs that drive creativity.
➤ Livestream & In-Person Delivery
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Art & History of Computing
A panoramic view of computing starting with a 20,000 year old baboon fibula and ending with Quantum computing. We'll cover the major developments and innovations in the world of computing and have lots of hands-on activities with vintage computing machines and artifacts.
➤ In-Person Delivery Only
Ages 11/12-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Space 1889: Journey to the Moon
Baron von Vaderstein is piloting a recently unearthed alien spacecraft to its ancient point of origin - the Moon! Her Majesty’s Extraordinary Adventurers have a twin spacecraft, but have no idea how to use its mechanical computer brain. Join the Adventurers in a race to master the Mechabrain and beat the Baron to the Moon!
➤ In-Person Delivery Only
Ages 8/9-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
Mars Lander Challenge
You're an engineer on a team responsible for designing a lander that will deliver an astronaut to the surface of Mars. You'll have materials, schedules, deadlines, budgets, and the challenges of the Martian atmosphere to contend with. Can you do it? Of course you can!
➤ In-Person Delivery Only
Ages 9/10-Adult/Senior. Download a Program Description / Common Core Map
