Explore the world, invent the future! A hands-on learning space that incorporates STEM with art & world cultures. KID Museum in a new kind of museum serving children and families in the Washington, DC area.
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Explore our digital media lab, creative coding station, electronic music-making, 3D printers, and studios that integrate electronics, textiles and circuits. Featured workshops, facilitated by resident artists, scientists and inventors, vary weekly and include activities like robotics, soldering and toy making. KID Museum is open for drop-in visits on Sundays, 10:00am to 5:00pm, with Open Explore activities and Workshops. The museum is open weekdays with After-School Programs, School & Group Visits, and Camps.
Mission: Our mission is to cultivate creativity, curiosity and compassion to build a better world.
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Register TODAY for our Fête for the Future and donate over $100 to receive one of these custom-designed and laser-cut maker kits from KID Museum (batteries included). You'll also receive printed instructions on how to assemble it and special access to a video from one of our Maker Educators: https://kid-museum.org/fete-future/
Join us this year for our virtual Fête for the Future! This free event will feature personal stories and inspirational insights from special guests José Andrés, Yo-Yo Ma, and Pam Melroy — three extraordinary changemakers who exemplify the power of creativity and innovation to invent a brighter future: kid-museum.org/fete-future
Champion Maker Sponsors: Amazon Future Engineer, American Gene Technologies, Bernard Family Foundation, and PepcoConnect
Members: Your first Make it! Live program this fall is FREE. Simply log in to receive your discount. We hope to virtually see you soon!
Welcome to Make It! Live — live, interactive programming led by our Maker Educators, delivered to you at home.
Our Make it! Live workshops are back and better than ever! This week we have Creative Movie Making and Animated E-Cards available both Tuesday and Thursday at 4pm for K - 8th grade. Check out the full listings here: https://kid-museum.org/make-it-live/
Welcome to Make It! Live — live, interactive programming led by our Maker Educators, delivered to you at home.
Need a break this week? Make it! Live returns this Thursday with workshops for K - 8th graders including Marble Run Madness and a Chain Reaction Challenge: https://kid-museum.org/make-it-live/
Welcome to Make It! Live — live, interactive programming led by our Maker Educators, delivered to you at home.
Thank you to everyone who participated in last weekend's Go Green Design Challenge presented by KID Museum and PepcoConnect! We loved seeing what you all made: https://youtu.be/p22m6jsFW60
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Go Green Design Challenge! We were so inspired by your thoughtful inventions to make your homes more eco-friend...
Happy Halloween from all of us at KID Museum! We hope everyone has a safe and spooky day.
Reminder: get your inventions in before 5pm today to be entered into the Go Green Design Challenge raffle: https://kid-museum.org/go-green-design-challenge/
Families are invited to use common household materials to come up with a prototype of their own environmental-friendly invention. Your idea might involve the creative re-design of an existing item, like a more efficient window or appliance, or something entirely new.
It's here! Join KID Museum and PepcoConnect all weekend long for the Go Green Design Challenge: https://youtu.be/1zYem8qfgYU
What can you design to make your home more sustainable? KID Museum and Pepco are teaming up to bring you a free, family design challenge! Families are invite...
Join us and PepcoConnect now for the Go Green Design Challenge! Kicking off in just a few minutes, we're challenging you to design something to make your home more sustainable: https://youtu.be/1zYem8qfgYU
What can you design to make your home more sustainable? KID Museum and Pepco are teaming up to bring you a free, family design challenge! Families are invite...
We'll see you tomorrow at 10am for the Go Green Design Challenge!
We’re partnering with the KID Museum to bring the ultimate Go Green Design Challenge! We invite families to learn the value of sustainability by using household items to come up with their own environmentally friendly invention. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/34pLrhP
Just two days to go before KID Museum and PepcoConnect kick off the Go Green Design Challenge! What will you design to make your home more sustainable? Register before the event to receive a free maker kit! https://kid-museum.org/go-green-design-challenge/
Families are invited to use common household materials to come up with a prototype of their own environmental-friendly invention. Your idea might involve the creative re-design of an existing item, like a more efficient window or appliance, or something entirely new.
What can your family design to make your home more sustainable? KID Museum and PepcoConnect are proud to bring you the Go Green Design Challenge.
Register on our website for the Go Green Design challenge and receive a special, post-event maker kit! https://kid-museum.org/go-green-design-challenge/
Families are invited to use common household materials to come up with a prototype of their own environmental-friendly invention. Your idea might involve the creative re-design of an existing item, like a more efficient window or appliance, or something entirely new.
The Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence
TONIGHT! At 7:00 pm, The Black and Brown Coalition for Education Equity and Excellence is hosting a forum focused on achieving equity for Black and Brown students.
The forum will feature public officials, parents and students who will speak on the impact of distance learning and the challenges related to the recovery of learning loss, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Register now at: https://bit.ly/BlackAndBrownCoalitionForum. #AccountableEquity
Agéndatelo! El 15/10, la @The Black and Brown Coalition for Education Equity and Excellence llevará a cabo un foro dirigido a promover la equidad y generar mejores condiciones para los estudiantes de color y bajos ingresos.
Funcionarios públicos, padres y estudiantes hablarán sobre el impacto de la educación a distancia y los desafíos para recuperar el aprendizaje perdido debido a la pandemia de COVID-19.
Regístrate aquí: https://bit.ly/BlackAndBrownCoalitionForum. #AccountableEquity
It pays to be kind. Starting today, you can purchase tickets to Westfield's Shop Your Heart Out and get 10 days of VIP deals for as little as a $10 donation. You can learn more and donate to KID to get your access to deals right here: https://shopyourheartout.westfield.com/donate/?charityId=1301
Counting down to the launch of Remake Learning Days! Don’t miss the pre-show music by teen band Funky Fly Project! Tune in here at 7pm EST: https://youtu.be/bSeKljLpZik
Join us for the official launch of Remake Learning Days Across America! This celebration will welcome the 16 regions, from west to east coast, engaged to hos...
Today is the official launch of Remake Learning Days! The DC-MD-VA is one of 16 regions featured, and KID Museum is honored to be a local co-organizer. Today's launch features special guests HundrED, Emily Calandrelli, PBS KIDS, U.S. Youth Observer, Digital Promise, Gregg Behr, and more. Tune in at 7pm EST/4pm PST: https://youtu.be/bSeKljLpZik #RemakeDays #LAAF
Join us for the official launch of Remake Learning Days Across America! This celebration will welcome the 16 regions, from west to east coast, engaged to hos...
This week's Make it! DIY get's a little shadowy. Join Maker Educator Cori as she walks you through how to make some basic shadow puppets. Then, share what you made with #KIDmakes
Join us on October 13 (7-8 pm EST) for the launch of RemakeLearningDays Across America to celebrate creative, hands-on learning. The DC-MD-VA will be one of 16 regions to coordinate a Remake Learning Days festival in the spring -- and KID Museum is honored to be a local organizer. Next week’s virtual event features the release of a new report on innovative learning by HundrED, as well as appearances by Digital Promise, PBS KIDS, Emily Calandrelli, U.S. Youth Observer, and more. Register here: http://bit.ly/RLDAALaunch
Join us for the official RLDAA launch! Meet the 16 regions and learn what is new for 2021 as we celebrate family-engaged learning.
Two of our staff members will be presenting this Saturday as part of Maker Ed's 6th Annual Maker Educator Convening. Learn all about Make it! Classroom and what they've discovered about virtual education. Register here: https://makered.org/convening-2020/schedule/
We're so excited about our 6th Annual Convening! Will you be joining us? Register: https://makered.org/convening-2020/
What can you design to make your home more sustainable? KID Museum and PepcoConnect are teaming up to bring you a free, family design challenge! Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/go-green-design-challenge/
It’s time to take your paper airplane making to the next level! Join Senior Maker Educator Ram as he walks you through all the steps you’ll need to make a Nakamura Lock and then watch your creation soar.
We're hiring! Check out the Careers page to see our latest postings and discover how you can get involved with KID Museum: https://kid-museum.org/about/careers/
KID Museum is our region’s pioneering experiential museum and educational makerspace. We foster the “Mind of a Maker” — a worldview guided by curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and compassion — in kids and youth, empowering them to become the next generation of problem-solvers and chang...
We want to hear from you! Besides offering virtual after-school programs and homeschooling options, we are looking to introduce new, virtual family programming and other services — but we need your input! Please complete this brief, 5-minute survey to help us understand your current needs and interests: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WF6TN2W
Become a KID Museum apprentice and work closely with our maker educators to facilitate virtual programming this fall: https://kid-museum.org/get-involved/apprentice/
KID Museum's Apprenticeship Program offers high school students real-world training, program development, exhibit planning, visitor services and more.
While we all wish we could be in person, there are some unexpected silver linings with virtual learning. Ram Mosher, KID Museum’s long-time Senior Maker Educator, explains: https://kid-museum.org/blog/maker-education-goes-virtual-ram/
While we all wish we could be in person, there are some unexpected silver linings with virtual learning. Ram Mosher, KID Museum’s long-time Senior Maker Educator, explains: What were your expectations as you started out in the spring teaching kids virtually? I expected it would be hard. I did not ...
Looking to fuel your child’s creative energies this semester? Check out our Fall After-School virtual offerings: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/after-school/
KID's after-school programs gives kids the chance to experiment, create and experience something new! Coding, robotics, maker studio sampler, Arduino, more!
Save the date for the Black and Brown Coalition Anniversary Forum for Educational Equity and Excellence, a virtual event on Thursday, October 15th, at 7:00pm. KID Museum is a proud member of this alliance that came together a year ago to advocate on behalf of Montgomery County’s most vulnerable students. A year later, it’s time to learn what progress has been made.
Please save the date for our Virtual Forum: “Seeking Accountability on Promises Made to Black and Brown Children” on October 15th at 7:00 pm!
This week brings a brand new Make it! DIY project from Maker Educator Warren! Gears come in all shapes and sizes and power all sorts of machinery. Have you ever made your own? Break out your maker skills (and some cardboard) and follow along.
Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
Thank you, Cristiano, for helping make our scholarship program such a success this summer. Dimensions Sciences was a fantastic partner and we can’t wait to see what you do next!
Hi, my name is Cristiano Sgarbi and I am an intern for Dimensions Sciences! I found out about the organization through my mother, Mariana Sgarbi, who began as a volunteer for the organization in January of this year. I joined back in April, initially contributing by editing promotional videos for our “Why Science is Important” video campaign. Since then, I had the chance to get involved in a variety of other ways, including writing a blog post for the website and attending www.ds-acts.org events. As a student of science myself, I was very enthusiastic about helping out a nonprofit committed to broadening access to study and research opportunities in the sciences for those who need it most, especially because I was able to witness the nonprofit’s impressive growth process in its early stages. In only 5 months in the Dimensions Sciences team, I was part of a directed effort of emergency scholarship funding for COVID-19 research at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, and summer camp scholarships in partnership with the KID Museum for Black children in underprivileged Washington, D.C. neighborhoods during the surge in response to police brutality and systemic racism against African Americans. The importance of the flexibility to direct time and resources to meeting the moment by directly addressing contemporarily pressing social issues such as these was one of the biggest takeaways from my internship. I had a great time working with such a dynamic team made of people from across the world and across several generations, and will undoubtedly take the experience along with me wherever I go!
#Team #teamwork #intern #dimensionssciences #Northeastern #northeasternuniversity #careers #internship #diversity #inclusionmatters
Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? By combining on-screen instruction with off-screen making, KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers.
Looking to enhance your child's learning this fall? This semester we're introducing Make it! Learn at Home and Make it! Classroom, two real-time distance learning programs for individual students, learning pods, homeschool groups, and virtual classrooms. Learn more: kid-museum.org/
Check out all of these maker opportunities in the area in today's Daily News Brief from Eye On Annapolis. And thanks to the Makerspace of Annapolis for including KID in your Thursday Maker Minutes!
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Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
KID Museum At Davis Library 6400 Democracy Blvd
Bethesda, MD
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KID Museum is currently closed to the public due to the global health crisis. We are now offering live, interactive programming with our Maker Educators throughout the week: https://kid-museum.org/make-it-plus/
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Happy Halloween from all of us at KID Museum! We hope everyone has a safe and spooky day.
This week's Make it! DIY get's a little shadowy. Join Maker Educator Cori as she walks you through how to make some basic shadow puppets. Then, share what you made with #KIDmakes
It’s time to take your paper airplane making to the next level! Join Senior Maker Educator Ram as he walks you through all the steps you’ll need to make a Nakamura Lock and then watch your creation soar.
This week brings a brand new Make it! DIY project from Maker Educator Warren! Gears come in all shapes and sizes and power all sorts of machinery. Have you ever made your own? Break out your maker skills (and some cardboard) and follow along.
Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
Keep Making Around the World this week and join Maker Educator Warren as he walks you through how to play and make your own Mancala board. Check out the full week of Make it! DIY projects right here to explore other maker activities from countries around the globe: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/around-the-world/
How are your Spy KIDs projects going? Need some inspiration? Check out how Maker Educator Dya made some of her own secret compartments around her own desk then try making some of your own: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/
Now more than ever, kids and families across our region need your support. Together, we will help our community get through this crisis and create solutions for a better future. Now more than ever, we need YOU. Be a #DifferenceMaker: https://kid-museum.org/support-kid/
Thanks to Maker Educator Dya for showing us how to make these super easy pinwheels! #makeit https://kid-museum.org/make-it/
Wow! Thanks to the KID Museum community we were able to donate over 150 face shields to front line workers last week. We're so thankful to the #maker community for coming together during this time. If you have access to a 3D printer, or can sew masks, you can get all of the information you need to contribute right here: https://kid-museum.org/our-response/face-shields/
Wow! Check out this short creative movie made last week for one of our Make it! Plus workshops. Discover how you can get creative while stuck at home with live, interactive programming led by our Maker Educators: https://kid-museum.org/make-it-plus/
Thanks to KID Museum members Christine Lima and her daughters for sharing their paper airplanes yesterday! We'd love to see what everyone makes this week: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/
Get ready for Valentine's Day this Sunday at KID! Make messages using binary beads, animate your own thaumatrope, and much more! Drop-in anytime between 10am and 5pm: kid-museum.org/admission/
Another successful “ball” drop at KID! Happy New Year! We’ll see you in 2020!
We are thrilled to share our new short film that captures the journey of four middle school girls and their teacher as they navigate KID Museum’s Invent the Future Challenge. It’s a story about creativity, perseverance, and teamwork — and what it looks like to prepare all kids to be our future innovators. https://kid-museum.org/support-kid
Trick out your pumpkins with LEDs? Make your own costume? We'd love to see anything you've made for this spooky holiday. Happy Halloween from all of us at KID!
FutureFest is just 3 weeks away—Sunday, Sept 15 in Downtown Silver Spring! The festival features KID City—an immersive, hands-on exhibit where kids and families will be building a city of the future from the ground up! Tell us: what are your predictions for the future of cities and transportation? #KIDFutureFest kid-museum.org/futurefest
FutureFest — one of the DC region’s largest family festivals — has it all: Real fun. Real tools. Real skills for the future. Come see how — together — we can build a better world! Sunday, Sept. 15, 12-5pm in Downtown Silver Spring. kid-museum.org/futurefest
From urban farming to plant-based living—what are your predictions for the future of Food & Sustainable Living? Come get inspired to protect life on this planet at FutureFest—Sunday, September 15 in Downtown Silver Spring. kid-museum.org/futurefest
FutureFest is coming, Sunday, September 15 in Downtown Silver Spring! What are your predictions for the future of Space & Exploration? kid-museum.org/FutureFest
Our Code Makers have been hard at work prototyping LED light shows. There are just a few spots left in camps all summer long: kid-museum.org/programs/summer-camps-2019/
Happy 4th of July from all of us at KID!
Curious about our weekend workshops? It’s a great month to sign up. Throughout May, all workshops at KID are only $10. kid-museum.org/hours-admission
Visit KID this weekend to enjoy a Fab Lab Spotlight Day on Saturday or our monthly Family Coding Day on Sunday! Drop-in for General Admission or register for a workshop and create a laser cut pendant or help us build a robotic carnival. kid-museum.org/hours-admission
We think our KID community is pretty fab! ❤️#HappyValentinesDay everyone.
A glimpse of our magnetic levitation (maglev) train activity at yesterday’s Japan Day — in slow motion so you can see this high-speed technology at work!
Rolling out the drawbridge for France Day! Join us and Alliance Française de Washington DC this Sunday, January 13 to explore France through hands-on activities, storytelling, and food from Crepes Parfait. kid-museum.org/france-day
Happy New Year from all of us at KID Museum, and a few of our stop motion animation filmmakers! Here's to a new year of possibilities exploring the world, and inventing the future!
KID Museum is a nonprofit experiential museum and educational makerspace that fosters the "mind of a maker" in the next generation through hands-on, engaging learning, empowering them with the skills to invent the future. Located just outside Washington, DC on the ground floor of the Davis Library in Bethesda, MD, the museum offers weekly programming for kids, youth, families, and educators.
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