School and Group Visits

Call and register your students for one of these workshops!

NEW! Programming Mindstorms

Explore what makes a robot tick in this introduction to programming robots. Students use the Lego Mindstorms NXT and NXT-G Programming Environment to get robots sensing, thinking, and moving about. This workshop includes a guided tour of the Robots and Beyond gallery and illustrates the development of robotics with examples from MIT research.

DNA Learning Lab: Protein Synthesis (High School only)

Students with a background in molecular biology use the MIT Museum's dedicated space, Learning Lab: The Cell to explore transcription, translation, and protein folding. This workshop, for high school and AP Biology students, uses LEGO kits, digital and physical models, and guided discussion to explore key concepts in molecular biology.

DNA Learning Lab: DNA and Proteins

Within human bodies lies a complex system as elegant and efficient as any factory-protein synthesis from instructions encoded in DNA. Students use the MIT Museum's dedicated space, Learning Lab: The Cell for a lesson about two vital biomolecules: DNA and proteins. Students will explore this fundamental basis of life with LEGO DNA kits, digital models, and guided discussion.

More information about the DNA Learning Lab is available in our downloadable Learning Lab: The Cell brochure (pdf).

Why Towers Stand Up and Bridge Don't Fall Down

Find out just how strong a piece of paper can be, bridge distances you'd never think possible, and see the simple geometry at the root of the tallest buildings in this active workshop on architecture and structural engineering. Students will design and build bridges using recycled materials, learning how structures stand up and working together as teams of engineers. Examples from architecture and engineering developed at MIT deepen students' appreciation of the structures all around us.