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Lindsay, one of our Maker Corps Members, shares photos of her summer workshop: The most anticipated part of my summer job was planning my own workshop.  After careful consideration and prototyping I decided on a conductive felting workshop.  It was amazingly exciting to see what directions the children went in, and how they decided to incorporate the electronic components.  Overall, it was a great success! -Lindsay

The third MAKEnight, an after hours event for adults, was held onFebruary 7th and it was a blast!  Over 150 adults visited the museum for a fun night of making. We had many activities in MAKESHOP and STUDIO that encouraged people explore and create.  In MAKESHOP, we let people felt using special felting needles along with a form of wet felting that allows you to turn a sheep’s wool into a felted creation.  We a

Michael and Katie are two kids who really took full advantage of MAKESHOP.  They spent some time getting introduced to two different projects, mainly stop-motion animation and jewelry making.  After an introduction, they set out to create several amazing and varied projects.  Katie spent some time making felt balls out of wool and then proceeded to make necklace using her felt creations.  She was then shown how to at