Innovation Studio
Innovation Studios
Innovation Studios encourage students to draw on their inherent creativity and experiences to create prototypes and solutions that solve everyday challenges. Utilizing design thinking and Griffin MSI’s Innovation Process allows young designers to explore what it might be like to be a professional in a scientific, engineering or creativity-focused career within a fun, hands-on experience. Innovation Studios can be facilitated at Griffin MSI (enhanced with visits to our exhibits) or held at your school or community space.
Programs we offer
Rainbow Light Circuit, Vibug and Circuit Toch are ideally held outside of the Museum, for larger audiences, audiences with a potential wider age range or situations where time is limited. Design with Lego is only offered at Griffin MSI.
Students will engage in the process of conceptualizing and designing case inspired human prosthetics and explore the expanding fields of human augmentation science and design.
In conjunction with Griffin MSI's new exhibit, The Blue Paradox, students will take a deep dive into the growing problem of ocean plastic pollution and explore creative solutions to reduce, reuse, and replace plastics in our everyday lives.
Students will learn how some innovators are ‘growing’ alternative solutions to some of today's biggest pollution and climate problems, explore ways to improve the human experience, and reduce our ecological footprint with the help of bioengineering.
Students will investigate how our environment, different utilization and even aesthetics continue to change one of humanity's greatest inventions. Students will learn about the history of wheels and innovate on the design to see how we can use it in the future.
Explore how wearable technology can be used for preventing, reducing, and treating sports related injuries, as well as improving accessibility for athletes, enthusiasts, and everyday humans.
Studios will reinforce learning through play as students create their own designs to solve a variety of relatable challenges based on spatial, scale and social parameters. Young designers will be guided through the same iterative, problem-solving process used by architects, engineers, designers, and inventors to shape and enhance our built environments.
Discover the connection between music and the human brain while learning to make music of your own.
Students will learn about the functions of various electronic components such as diodes, switches and resistors while assembling a circuit of their own.
Students will have the opportunity to learn about circuits and motion as they
assemble a Bristle Bot of their own, and Griffin MSI will bring its Sumo Bot Ring to see which bot is crowned as champion. For budding designers, especially robotic and mechanical engineers.
Build a simple LED torch while learning about diodes, circuits, and polarity — all things electrical wizards (engineers, electricians, inventors) need to ply their craft.
