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Big Ideas Festival
at Please Touch Museum

April 1 & 2, 2023

Sponsored by:

Join us for Big Ideas Festival, a celebration of invention, innovation, and collaboration! The theme for our 2023 event is “Building Community.”

  • Try your hand at a building challenge in Imagination Playground
  • Find out what holds up a bridge in our “Bad Bridges” Makerspace workshop
  • Explore different building materials at our “Architexture” cart
  • Move your body and use your voice as we work together to create a human machine
  • Try out our infant-friendly tools in “Baby Builders”
  • … and more!
FULL SATURDAY SCHEDULE
FULL SUNDAY SCHEDULE

Featured Activity: Innovators Alley

How can we help make the world a better place? Join us in Innovators’ Alley, featuring activities from some friends of the Museum.

  • Out4STEM
  • Villanova Chemical Society
  • Please Touch Museum Exhibits Department
  • Philly Robotics Coalition

11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level

Featured Activity: Cardboard City

Come build part of our cardboard city! Add to our recycled landscape and try out your structural engineering skills.

1-3 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level


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