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Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

Searching for Tinkering: Technorama

Searching for Tinkering: Technorama

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 21, 2025technorama, searching for tinkering, swiss science center, bildungscongress, exploratorium, PFA, frank oppenheimer, exhibits, exponaten, pierre andres, tinkering studio, wind table, marble machines, circuit boards, exhibit development, workshop

Rollers with Pom Poms and Pebbles

Rollers with Pom Poms and Pebbles

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 17, 2025roly poly rollers, pom poms, pebbles, spielmobil, nicole catrett, motion boards, robots, pom pom factory, testing, prototyping, creative learning festival, milan, museo nazionale scienza e technologia leonardo da vinci di milano

Motorized Balance Sculptures at Technorama

Motorized Balance Sculptures at Technorama

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 16, 2025bildungscongress, technorama, switzerland, professional development, the tinkering workshop, prototyping, weighted wobblers, balancing sculptures, wires, weights, motors, pager motors

Kinderkunstdorf Freiburg 2025

Kinderkunstdorf Freiburg 2025

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 10, 2025kinderkunstdorf, kaleidoscopes, art machines, scribbling machines, art bots, robots, workshops, pop-up, festival, art, curiousity, tinkering

Recycled Roly Poly Rollers Prototyping

Recycled Roly Poly Rollers Prototyping

Light & Optics Exhibits On the Floor at Phaeno

Light & Optics Exhibits On the Floor at Phaeno

Ryan JenkinsJuly 26, 2025light, optics, light and optics, phaeno, phaeno wolfsburg, playful exhibits, RGB shadows, colored shadows

Searching for Tinkering: Water, Cardboard and Sound

Searching for Tinkering: Water, Cardboard and Sound

Ryan JenkinsJuly 25, 2025searching for tinkering, schwarzwald, watermills, saw mill, automata, germay, germany, black forest, LEDs, cardboard, art museum, kunsthaus, monster chetwynd, elztal museum, sound, sound machines

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts Book Review

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts Book Review

Ryan JenkinsJuly 21, 2025jasmine florentine, hex allen, maker girl and professor smarts, MIT kids press, maker books, book review, grappling hook, the tinkering workshop

Approaches to Tinkering with AI

Approaches to Tinkering with AI

Ryan JenkinsJuly 14, 2025AI, KI, Experimenta, inter.aktion, conference, professional development, conferences, prorotypes, nexus, University Freiburg, scratch, scratch labs, face sensing, AI animations, circuit blocks, KI-pavillion, mitchel resnick

Water Factory Tinkering at Boulder Public Library

Water Factory Tinkering at Boulder Public Library

Ryan JenkinsJuly 4, 2025boulder public library, celeste moreno, water factory, the tinkering workshop, toddler tinkering, storytime tinkering, swim swim sink, water tinkering