Cloud Haiku
We have a wonderful book on our windowsill called The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. It is so far one of the most […]
Author Archives: Anne
Turbulence Sundays
This month, we’re exploring turbulence. You may have noticed turbulent fluid patterns in the steam coming off of your cup of tea, in the wisps of clouds in the sky, […]
Unicorns Not Needed
As a culmination of our month of Light and Dark, we set up our Colored Shadows exhibit in the workshop tonight, and brought out a giant piece of Mylar. The […]
Birds and Bees
If you buy us flowers, we will be very flattered, and then we will probably dissect them. Here are a few snapshots Tricia took today with our new microscope. You […]
Moire Musing
We celebrated Light and Dark for First Friday tonight by creating an immersive multi-shadow exhibit in the classroom, and playing with moire patterns using a projector on the front window. […]
Home School at Helix
We hosted our first inquiry workshop for a home school group this week. After studying the physics of electricity and sound this month, the group joined us to make speakers […]
What We Did This Weekend
School Field Trip!
We had our very first pilot field trip at Helix today. It was fantastic! We’re very excited to be working with local schools to support teachers & students. We’re working […]
Film Screening on the Window
Tonight we participated in First Friday for the first time! What a delight to see everyone out around town. The Exploratorium Cinema Arts team came down to screen a collection […]
Pinhole Images of the Sun
The Festival of Lights Parade got us thinking about light, and so we decided to do some explorations from a classic exploratorium experience, the Light Walk. We punched some star-shaped […]
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