SCHOOL IS OUT. KID IS OPEN!
Fall 2024
November 4
Spend a fun-filled day exploring our state-of-the-art studios, mastering new skills, and unleashing your inner inventor. Students will choose two skill-building sessions, complete a design challenge, and explore the KID Museum space.
Sample Skill Building Sessions:
- Sewing and Textiles: Create custom textiles and learn how to hand and machine sew.
- Woodworking: Explore basic woodworking techniques, including carving, shaping, and assembly. Learn to safely use tools like rasps/files, scroll saws, and drills.
- Electronics: Explore electricity, circuitry, and how electronics can help you invent and create.
- Digital Fabrication: Learn how to create with high-tech tools.
- Coding: Use different coding languages and platforms to bring your digital ideas to life.
- Cardboard Construction: Master techniques like scoring, folding, and slotting to create durable structures and prototypes.
- Engineering Design Challenges: Apply the Engineering Design Process to brainstorm, prototype, test, and refine innovative solutions–building critical thinking and creativity along the way.
Day Long Sessions
Dates: Monday, November 4
Times: 9AM – 4PM
Grades: 2nd – 8th
Price
Members: $110
Nonmembers: $120
Access for Every Maker: We are dedicated to expanding access to all makers by providing free and reduced-cost ways to participate in our programming. Please use this form to reach out if program fees pose a financial hardship, and we’ll ensure you and your family can participate.
Members: Be sure to login prior to checkout to receive your registration discounts.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Time: 9AM - 4PM
Grades: 2nd - 8th
Location: 3 Bethesda Metro Center
Sample Daily Schedule
- Arrival
- Skill Building Session 1: Choose a workshop
- Snack
- Skill Building Session 2: Choose a second workshop
- Lunch and Recess (outside if weather allows)
- Open Build Challenge: Complete a design challenge using the techniques learned during the morning workshops
- Snack
- Open Explore: Try out any number of our rotating activities
- Dismissal