February Vacation Programs 2012 | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop

February Vacation 2012: Engineers Week: Places of Invent

"Place" supports invention.. The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center (http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/) is studying the architecture and geography of invention: what habits and habitats support success? This year's Engineer's Week we will create 5 working model workshops to explore 5 styles of invention. These are tool kits that will enrich your workshop.

Ages: 6 (First Grade) through 12 years old. Each day has a beginning and advanced level group.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A.C. Gilbert's All-Purpose Motor

100 years ago in New Haven, A.C. Gilbert invented a small place for invention: the Erector Set. It's heart was the electric motor. He put the first flexible use motor into the hands of a generation of young inventors.

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Designed for ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
$59.00 for nonmembers
$54.00 for members

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Charles and Ray Eames' Studio

Charles and Ray Eames designed everything: toys, chairs, houses, films and museum exhibitions. They were practical visionaries. They found new uses for new ways of making things.

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Designed for ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
$59.00 for nonmembers
$54.00 for members

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Friday, February 24, 2012

Calder's Studio

Alexander Calder was an engineer and an artist. Watch films of him working in his Roxbury, CT studio. Calder brings to life everything he touches with play.

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Designed for ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
$59.00 for nonmembers
$54.00 for members

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Maker's Box of Parts

Make Magazine collects and shares the ideas of a new generation of inventors who mix old and new challenges, old and new parts with playful confidence. Practice the code of Make. Construct a Marble Down with peg board scraps, plastic tubing, hydralics, a flashing bicycle light, clothespins...and your imagination.

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Designed for ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
$59.00 for nonmembers
$54.00 for members

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Alexander Graham Bell's Boat

Alec Bell invented the telephone and much more. One of his secrets: Mabel of Benin Bhreagh, a houseboat to which he retreated to think and fill notebooks with his ideas.

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Designed for ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
$59.00 for nonmembers
$54.00 for members

Learn more...

Charles and Ray Eames' Studio

Charles and Ray Eames designed everything: toys, chairs, houses, films and museum exhibitions. They were practical visionaries. They found new uses for new ways of making things.

Learn more...

Alexander Graham Bell's Boat

Alec Bell invented the telephone and much more. One of his secrets: Mabel of Benin Bhreagh, a houseboat to which he retreated to think and fill notebooks with his ideas.

Learn more...

A.C. Gilbert's All-Purpose Motor

100 years ago in New Haven, A.C. Gilbert invented a small place for invention: the Erector Set. It's heart was the electric motor. He put the first flexible use motor into the hands of a generation of young inventors.

Learn more...

The Maker's Box of Parts

Make Magazine collects and shares the ideas of a new generation of inventors who mix old and new challenges, old and new parts with playful confidence. Practice the code of Make. Construct a Marble Down with peg board scraps, plastic tubing, hydralics, a flashing bicycle light, clothespins...and your imagination.

Learn more...

Calder's Studio

Alexander Calder was an engineer and an artist. Watch films of him working in his Roxbury, CT studio. Calder brings to life everything he touches with play.

Learn more...