Provider Details
Provider: FutureMakers

Contact Details
Address
1700 W. 41st St Unit 475
Baltimore, MD 21211
Baltimore, MD 21211
Cultural Organization
FutureMakers sparks playful engineering in Arts Every Day classrooms! Our team of coaches and designers have created Sparks - hands-on design challenges that are made in your classroom, and go home for students to learn and play more!
Events and Programs Offered

Monster Mouths! Pneumatic Machine Exploration Lab
What’s a Monster Mouth? Design and build an imagined creature using force and air pressure! Create a system of pistons and cylinders that move air from here to there using push and pull forces – and make a creature with a giant moving mouth. STEM…
Program/Event Format:
After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Puppetry

Drawbots! Drawing Machine Engineering Lab
What’s a Drawbot? Engineer a kinetic sculpture that is designed and built to draw! Your students will love buidling their own version of a hands-on, electric, wiggling, re-buildable drawing machine – that goes home to keep! In one virtual visit, students will – engineer a…
Program/Event Format:
After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Digital Arts/Media

Art Machines! Kinetic Creature Construction Lab
What are Art Machines? Design and build a kinetic sculpture using a system of simple machines. Bring a creature or contraption with moving parts—a mouth that opens and closes, hands that clap, wings that flap—to life! This workshop is built on the Art Machines Spark…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Puppetry

Blendies! Color Mixing Spinning Top Lab
What’s Blendies? Explore symmetry and balance with a reconfigurable spinning top! Use primary color markers to optically “blend” secondary colors from patterns and color blocks. This workshop is built on the Blendies Spark from FutureMakers – a hands-on playful engineering project for classrooms. Each student…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design