What’s better than a day at my kids’ favorite science museum?  A day with free admission and special events at that museum, of course!  This Saturday, February 26, from 9 to 5, The Works, a science museum in Edina, Minnesota, is presenting its annual Tech Fest.  In celebration of National Engineers Week, the museum offers this free day of educational fun.

Special activities include hovercraft rides, a planetarium show, and chemistry shows, all of which my kids enjoyed last time we went to Tech Fest.  In addition, kids (and adults) can participate in hands-on activities like paper making, magnetic bridges, making slime, and more, and of course spend as much time in the museum as they wish.

Programmable Bee at The Works

I like The Works because it’s a smaller museum with lots of fun packed in.  I especially like that it’s my daughter’s favorite place, and while her brothers are off building walls with foam bricks or racing K’nex cars or controlling a robot, she’s figuring out binary numbers and color combinations and learning about pulleys and math and programming the bee while having fun the entire time. Read More »