NYC Technovation Week: Creating Mobile Applications With Young Students
Did you know that third grade students can easily create their own Android apps? This summer, we used the Technovation Challenge curriculum and the MI...
Read MoreMechanisms and Simple Machines: How to Make a Gearbox with Moving Parts
You can learn about mechanisms with these gearboxes made from just cardboard, sticks and foam! At our engineering Summer Camp in NYC, we prototyped pr...
Read MoreNYC Aerodynamics Projects from our Engineering Summer Camp
This summer, we challenged our 3rd-8thgrade students to use the engineering design process in multiple in-depth ways throughout Summer Camp. During th...
Read MoreHow Technovation Inspired Me to Start a Company
By: AnnaLise Hoopes, Technovation Director, SF Bay Area For the past three years, I’ve been working to inspire girls as technology entrepreneurs thr...
Read MoreGravity Design Challenge
Build a Space Mission with household materials and compete for a trip to New York with 2 guest to watch the Premiere screening and get the chance to s...
Read MoreCool Designs from NYC Spring Family Science Sessions
This spring, New York City studio ran four different 5-week Family Science sessions with our partner schools. In these sessions, families learned abou...
Read MoreThe Fluid Ether is Live!
This week, we finally released the second version of our physics simulation app! The Fluid Ether is a physics simulation game. You can find it in the ...
Read MoreA n00b guide to achievements in games
I’m a big believer in learning from history. Educational badging is derived from “achievements” in games, and so it seems useful to understand t...
Read MoreIf a game is assigned as homework, is it still a game?
Ok, it’s two days after the event and I’m coming off the high that was the 10th Games for Change festival. Admidst a storm of great ...
Read MoreAnanya Sen Gupta: A Reflection on Mentorship
About the Author: Ananya Sen Gupta MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spent sometime in the sof...
Read MoreMentor Spotlight: Ozge Yeloglu
We sat down with amazing mentor Ozge Yeloglu of Halifax, Canada to hear about her mentorship story with her team The APPstronauts. Check out her story...
Read MoreIridescent at Emoti-Con! NYC 2013
This Saturday, June 1st, Explainers and Technovation Challenge were two Iridescent programs among the presenters at the Emoti-Con! NYC Youth Digital M...
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