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This week’s big event

The Week Junior•10 August 2019

help design it. The Lab is made up of five areas.

In the imagine and playzone, youcantakepart in

building challenges, using materials such as

Lego.The ideaszone is aplacetoget

inspired andcome up with your own

inventions. The challengezone is

whereyou cantry your hand at

taskssuch asrobot building.

In the test arena, you get to make

something thatcanflyormove,

usingrecycled materials, and put it

to the test using the lab’sramps and

wind machines. Finally,thereare

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or the whole month of August, the Institute of

Imagination is running the Mega Maker Lab in

Lambeth,London. The Institute of Imagination is a

charity that organises events to help young people

develop their creative thinking. Mega Maker Lab

is their biggest event yet, taking placeinahuge

ware house. Inside, thereare arange of activities to

get you thinking creatively.Itislocated next to the

Institute’sImagination Lab,which is its dedicated

spacefor workshops throughout the year.

The Mega Maker Labcomes from the minds of

100 primary school pupils fromLondon, who were

invited to the Imagination Lab for two days in April to

Stepinto aworldofimagination

opportunities to try out equipment such as drills and

glue guns in the safety of the tool bar.

If you go to the Mega Maker Lab on a

weekend, thereisa lso the chancetot ake

part inaone-hour masterclass with

experts. These masterclassesexplore

topicsranging from virtualreality to

stop-motion animation. Thereare

also several“lab lift-off”camps –

day-long scienceexperiences for

those aged from seven to 12.

To find out moreand book tickets,

visit ioi.london/whats-on

MegaMakerMasterclasses

MakeSome Noise

Explorethe scienceofs ound in the MakeSome

Noise masterclass.Working together with other

visitors, you’ll get to create sound effects using fruit

(yes, fruit!) and build your own instruments.

VirtualWorlds

Step into another world and find out moreabout the

technology behind virtualreality (tech that allows you

to see inside and interact withadigital space, usually

through the use ofaheadset).You’ll even be able to

build your own v mobile app.

Animation Exploration

In stop-motion animation, you takeapictureofa

still object, move it slightly,takeanother pictureand

repeat. When you play back all the pictures in a

sequence, it looksasifthe object is moving. Find

out about how it worksand makeyour own film.

Getcreativeatt heMegaMakerLabthismonth.

Visitorscan

work together.

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Mega Maker Labwas

designed by pupils.

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