Maker Educator Convening

The Tech has been exploring what is possible with a new type of museum space. The museum’s experimental bio-makerspace houses hands-on activities at the intersection of biology, design, and making for visitors of all ages. We are excited to share with other maker educators our challenges, insights, and learnings from the last two years of developing novel experiences that aim to combine making and biology. This workshop will take place in the Biotinkering Lab, where participants will be able to try both of the hands-on experiences that we have developed to date using real living organisms. In Bio Inks you will get to harvest, tinker and create art with a natural bio-pigment produced by bacteria and in Mushroom Bricks you can grow bricks and blocks using nature’s technology — living mushrooms! Come touch, smell, and learn about what we have tried and get a behind the scenes look at the programs (and microbes) we’re growing.