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Maker Space Build-Along: Stick-eometry! Geometry from sticks

Program Categories
Crafts, Educational Programs, Miscellaneous, Technology

Audience Age
9 and up, through YA, Teens, and Adults.

Description

Using pencils, dowels, or tubes made from paper, plus tape and elastic, participants make their own kinetic structures that transform from triangles, to pentagons, and pentagrams... or from hexagrams to cubes, and square bottom pyramids! This is a hands-on workshop, in which everyone works at their own pace. Jay demonstrates several ways to construct these fascinating geometric manipulative toys, and discusses their relevancy to practical and projective geometry.

Fee
$200.

$200 for 60 minutes, or $300 for 90 minutes with additional constructions for added complexity and insight.

Group Size
any

Program Length
60-90

Facility Requirements

Materials required: 5 or more unsharpened pencils, tape, and elastic cord or rubber bands. Instead of pencils, other types of straight sticks of equal length can be used, for instance Tinker Toy rods, or K'Nex rods.

Last Modified
08/24/2021

Performer’s Contact Information

Playful Engineers

Jay Mankita
310 Montague Rd
Amherst, MA 01002
 (413)627-3145
 jay@playfulengineers.com
 https://playfulengineers.com
Preferred Contact Method: Email

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