Second Fridays

Hands-on Activities

Create amazing light graffiti images using portable LEDs, build structures out of candy and everyday materials, or make a marble-sized roller coaster.

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Build A Mega Carbon Nanotube!

Carbon nanotubes are regular geometric structures of carbon atoms with fascinating properties, currently being researched at MIT. Join our MIT Science Sculptors and help build a ten-foot tall model these structures. We'll be building our model on a 1: 10,000,000,000 scale...give or take an order of magnitude.

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Nanotech Workshop (Registration is full)

Think small! Batteries made out of viruses. Remote control medicine. Nanotechnology is making it possible. Professors Paula Hammond and Angela Belcher invite you to explore this rapidly changing field through a two-hour workshop of discussion and hands-on work with real nanotech materials.  For adults only.

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Debunking Hollywood’s Holograms: An Illustrated Talk
Think you’ve seen holograms in the movies and on TV? Dr. Michael Bove from the MIT Media Lab will prove you wrong. See "holograms" in clips from Star Wars, CNN, and elsewhere. Compare those special effects with real holograms. Learn about the moving holograms being developed right now in MIT labs. In conjunction with the Sampling MIT exhibit.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.