Explore and experiment with mechanical motion as you create your own moving art. Along the way, discover how simple mechanisms like cams, linkages, and levers work to generate different types of movement.

Think you have what it takes to build an unsinkable ship? Join us for some stories, and then we will build boats out of tin foil. If your boat floats we’ll add pennies to see how much weight they hold! For children ages 5 and up and their caregivers.

Tough Tech is transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. Come learn more at The Engine!

*** Attendees should provide their own lunch. ***

There are so many fun ways to trick your eyes and brain! Create your own optical illusion and explore how we take in and process visual information.

Hear local musicians’ original electronic music designed for quadraphonic surround sound.

The MIT Spatial Sound Lab is a community studio for making immersive sound productions, including music, sound art, sonifications, accessible technology, sensory ethnography and more.

This mixtape presentation in 4.1 sound aims to highlight possibilities of listening from the margins, hearing a multiplicity of voices in new ways, and generating soundscapes to explore in relation to changing environments.

*** Attendees should provide their own lunch. ***

Can biomaterials build a more sustainable future? Decide for yourself in this hands-on workshop as you create colorful string from seaweed-derived polymers. Work together with your family, experiment with different formulas and extrusion methods, and put your creative skills to the test!

Supported by the Biogen Foundation.

Explore and experiment with mechanical motion as you create your own moving art. Along the way, discover how simple mechanisms like cams, linkages, and levers work to generate different types of movement.

Today, we are closer than ever to realizing the dream of harnessing the nuclear process that powers our sun. This stellar process, called fusion, produces minimal waste and offers the hope of an almost limitless supply of safe, dependable energy. For over 40 years MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has been exploring nuclear fusion as a source of energy through a series of tokamaks, devices that use magnets to confine hot plasma in a donut-shaped chamber. Visit the PSFC and learn how MIT is supporting the latest exciting fusion research. Limited to 25.

*** Attendees should provide their own lunch. ***

This interactive presentation showcases projects that combine traditional materials with modern tech like robotics, 3D printing, and Arduino inventions. See firsthand how technology enhances the creative process, inspiring innovation and pushing boundaries.

Whether you are an artist, engineer, educator, or simply someone who is curious about the intersection of these fields, this presentation is sure to inspire and captivate. Come join us as we explore the exciting possibilities of art and engineering in the modern age!

*** Organizer will provide lunch. ***

Explore and experiment with mechanical motion as you create your own moving art. Along the way, discover how simple mechanisms like cams, linkages, and levers work to generate different types of movement.

Explore and experiment with mechanical motion as you create your own moving art. Along the way, discover how simple mechanisms like cams, linkages, and levers work to generate different types of movement.

Learn to mend your clothing and fix broken electronics, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, bicycles, etc. at the Fixit Clinic. Fixit Coaches will share their time, tools and expertise to consult with you on the disassembly, troubleshooting, and repair of your item. Gain the confidence and knowledge to make repairs and teach others to do the same. This event takes place at The Foundry, located at 101 Rogers St, Cambridge.

Open to all ages, registration is required.

This event is brought to you by The Foundry, The Cambridge Department of Public Works, and Fixit Clinic.

A conductor’s jacket able to measure the physiology and movements of musicians was created by Teresa Nakra during her doctoral research at the MIT Media Lab with Professors Tod Machover and Rosalind Picard. Conductor Keith Lockhart wore the jacket during Tech Night at the Boston Pops in 1998, with animated sensor data projected above the orchestra. It is now part of the Museum’s collection.

In this presentation, explore the ideas embedded in the jacket design and watch a demonstration of the signals generated by a professional classical musician.

Facetopo will host an interactive pop-up with creators and models to demonstrate our AI makeup app that helps you do makeup a better way. Come learn about beauty tools and clean beauty disruptors:

Come learn about circuits with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)! We will have materials available at our SWE Boston table such as LEDs, coin cell batteries, copper tape and paper so participants can make their own light-up creations. You could even make a flashing firetruck card!

Learn how structural engineers consider forces when designing structures and build you own Jenga tower! Test the strength of your tower by trying to knock it down with the Hulk Hands!

Create a design for your ideal learning environment. Think about scale, amenities, atmosphere, sounds, signs, materials, and more! Bring yourself and your creativity and we’ll lead you through a quick design process.

When it rains, where does all the water go? Come use a 3D interactive model to find out, and explore what’s happening both above and beneath the surface of our streets and homes.

Stop by the Info Booth and grab some MIT.Nano swag! But be quick – it won’t last forever!

We will showcase different 3D printed projects such as a perpetual motion machine, sculptures, robot arms, etc.

Work hands-on with polymers to discover the magic of material science!

Learn how the sun powers our world! In this activity, you’ll learn how sunlight gets transformed into energy that powers everything from our homes to our bikes!

You are an engineer tasked with building a tower out of straws! Your tower needs to be at least one foot tall and once completed, support the weight of a book. The only materials you can use are straws and masking tape.

Bzzzzzz! Discover the science behind sounds as you engineer a device that creates air vibrations to mimic the noise a swarm of bees makes.

Choose a piece of paper, a pen, give the pendulums a push, and try to guess how the drawing will develop! Blend different kinds of motion to explore the drawing space or simply watch how other drawings develop. Or crank the gears on the epicycloid machine to watch frequencies determine symmetry!

At our booth, you’ll have the chance to create art using engineering principles, including experimenting with an art-making robot that will help bring your creations to life!

Stop by to learn how wind turbines work! Build a mini turbine of your own and see how the wind is affected from one turbine to the next. Finally, design and develop a floater for an offshore wind turbine and test it.

Explore and experiment with mechanical motion as you create your own moving art. Along the way, discover how simple mechanisms like cams, linkages, and levers work to generate different types of movement.