The MIT Media Laboratory, in collaboration with six museums, will develop the "Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network," with the goal of engaging a broader audience in science inquiry and engineering by enabling more people to create, invent and explore with new digital technologies. PIE museums will integrate the latest MIT technologies and educational research into their ongoing public programs. The museums will organize MindFest events, modeled after a two-day event at MIT in 1999, at which youth, educators, artists, engineers, hobbyists and researchers came together to collaborate on invention projects. The PIE Network will disseminate PIE ideas and activities to educators and families nationally.
Funders
NSF
Funding Program:
ISE/AISL
Award Number:
0087813
Funding Amount:
2078635
TEAM MEMBERS
Mitchel Resnick
Principal Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natalie Rusk
Co-Principal Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bakhtiar Mikhak
Co-Principal Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mike Petrich
Co-Principal Investigator
Exploratorium
Karen Wilkinson
Co-Principal Investigator
Exploratorium
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