Experimental Musings

Inspiration is a tenet of the Museum. But it isn’t always about what the Museum is doing to inspire others. Sometimes staff draw inspiration from community projects and citizens. Project Engage is just such an initiative.

Bob Shires continues with part three of the learn-to-code blog series. This time we’re going to give Sparky a little time off while you learn how to create a simple “pong” game in Scratch.

A My Block is a block that you design yourself to perform any task that you might need. They allow you to reuse code that performs a certain task over and over. Let's learn more about how to set up a My Block together.

There's no bad time to learn how to code, but summer is especially good as you might have extra time on your hands. In this post, professional computer nerd and robotics coach Bob Shires introduces you to the free programming site Scratch.

There’s a lot of history being made these days, and science is making some history, too. Let's dig in to why the recent SpaceX launch was so historic.