Pencil Critters: Imagination Station at the CSF Carnival

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Use your imagination to create fun creatures for the Cambridge Science Festival Carnival!

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MIT MAD at the Cambridge Science Festival

This year, for its annual "Power of Design" event, MIT MAD explores how design transforms learning through four workshops as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

Use your imagination to create fun creatures for the Cambridge Science Festival Carnival! Design and make animals, aliens, robots, monsters, and more, with paper, felt, foam, pipe cleaners, and other materials, using a colorful (and very cool) mechanical pencil for the body of your creature. Use our backdrops to take pictures of your creations. Take your animal (and the pencil) home or leave it to live happily ever after in the Pencil Critter Petting Zoo! Work alongside MIT staff and students to discover different dimensions of the design process, and learn about low-fidelity prototyping — a technique that uses simple materials to test ideas and gather feedback.We can’t wait to see what you make! On-site walk-ins welcome!

<h4>THE POWER OF DESIGN TO TRANSFORM LEARNING</h4>This workshop is part of MAD’s Power of Design series, dedicated this year to the ways in which Design Transforms Learning, and a part of <a href="https://cambridgesciencefestival.org/" title="https://cambridgesciencefestival.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Science Festival</a>. Watch the replays: <a href="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design" title="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Power of Design 2022</a> — Catalyzing Innovation, Transforming Learning, Empowering Society <a href="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design-2023" title="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design-2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Power of Design 2023</a> — Designing Climate Futures

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