Sort
New items
-
Building for Birds: Film Screening and Taking Action
Participants learn about bird migration and the importance of being...
-
Bird's Eye Art: DIY Window Decals
Visitors design their own window decals (inspired by local and migratory...
-
Magnificent Migrations: Mural Activity
Participants learn about birds' migratory flight paths across North...
Activities There are 601 items.
-
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Modeling Data
Patrons play a revised version of Rock, Paper, Scissors to explore elements of computer modeling 0
Check It Out
-
Passion for Pixels
Learn about how remote-sensing satellites transmit data and digital images by creating an image on grid paper and then use a code of zeroes and ones to transmit the image to a partner 0
Check It Out
-
The Intelligent Piece of Paper
Participants are introduced to the concept of artificial intelligence and programming language by playing tic tac toe against an "intelligent" piece of paper 0
Check It Out
How-to Video -
Scout Patrol: Encryption
Participants explore an encription style in the context of a scout story and practice decoding messages! 0
Check It Out
-
Modems Unplugged
Participants decode messages in songs using an audio coding similar to that used by a modem 0
Check It Out
-
The Chocolate Factory: Human Interface Design
This activity raises awareness of design flaws in the interactions between humans and computer interfaces 0
Check It Out
-
Public Key Encryption
This rewarding, but technically challenging activity, explores encryption and cyber security through the sending of secret messages 0
Check It Out
How-to Video -
Cryptographic Protocols
This activity demonstrates how to accomplish a seemingly impossible task - making a fair choice by flipping a coin - by using math! 0
Check It Out
How-to Video -
Information Hiding
Patrons learn about how people's personal information is shared, and yet none of it is revealed, by exploring a mathematical cryptographic technique 0
Check It Out
-
Ice Roads - Steiner Trees
Patrons explore finding the shortest path through a network to learn about algorithmic procedures 0
Check It Out
-
Tourist Town - Dominating Sets
In this math activity, patrons learn about the development of algorithms by mapping out a town's Ice Cream Van locations 0
Check It Out
-
Marching Orders - Programming Languages
Participants learn the importance of concise and explicit language that must be used in computer programming by instructing each other on how to recreate a drawing 0
Check It Out