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We had such a wonderful visit with the teachers and students of Dixon School District #9. It's so wonderful to see every kid in the school at Dixon, and we had a very wonderful night with families and kids during our snowy Family Science Night!

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Fred Moodry Intermediate School - Anaconda

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Students in Anaconda took great delight in making characters from the popular game Among Us on our Pixel Pegs exhibit! I dunno, this guy looks kinda sus to us...

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Fred Moodry Intermediate School - Anaconda

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Anaconda Role Model Spotlight - Megan Moore

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Anaconda Role Model Spotlight - Megan Moore

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We were delighted to have UM Role Model Megan Moore at our Family Science Night in Anaconda! Megan is a PhD graduate student in the Department of Society and Conservation within the W.A. Franke College of Forestry at the University of Montana, and shared a wonderfully relevant activity related to her research about the historic smelter stack located within the town of Anaconda.

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The Boomwhacker band at the Frenchtown Sciencepalooza was on point!

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This family had a great time with our Light Play Studio light and shadow storytelling activity in Frenchtown! Students during our daytime visit also created an accurate representation of the National Geographic channel's prime programming.

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Our educator Evan worked very hard with several students in Frenchtown to create a 20-sided structure with numbers on it that you could roll as a large D&D die!

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We've traveled our community quilt to several communities for the Family Science Night participants to add designs to - there's even one high school crush commemorated in its folds.

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Our Sticklets dowel connectors and Rigamajig building set were very popular with the kids in Superior, MT.

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We visited the Frenchtown Intermediate School Library to work with 10 teachers from the district with our Making Across Montana professional development workshop. They created some amazing interactive posters that embedded storytelling, music, and a game show!

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Superior School high school students worked very hard to create an accurate pixelated outline of Montana!

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We visited Superior in early April and brought our whole exhibition to make, explore and learn with every kid in the K-12 schools. It was such a fun visit!

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Our graphic designer did an amazing job of encapsulating all of the fun elements of this exhibition into the logo!

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spectrUM Discovery Area - Teacher Workshop

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Our teachers from Darby showed off their creative skills to create interactive posters using craft materials, conductive elements and the Makey Makey circuit board. See them show off the posters they created in this video!

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spectrUM Discovery Area - Teacher Workshop

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We hosted 14 teachers from the Darby school district on Feb. 18th to test out our Making Across Montana teacher professional development workshop. They had tons of fun felting some creative creatures, learning about culturally responsive teaching and the design thinking process, and making interactive posters using Makey Makey!

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Want to know how we make our Pixel Pegs challenges? We created a grid of round pegs on Pixilart and just change the colors of the pegs to create different designs. You can create your own pixel art using this free online tool!

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Pixilart, free online drawing editor and social platform for everyone. Create game sprites, make pixel art, animated GIFs, share artwork and socialize online.

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Using our Rigamajig to build a car, crane, skateboard or other such device was a blast for all ages!

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Students worked together to create this tunnel using our large SOMA Cubes. The challenge of the day from one of the teachers was to create the sofa, with a reward of candy for anyone who could. Despite their best efforts, the challenge was very elusive (but we've heard they got candy anyways...).

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Students worked very hard to make this large tower using almost all of our KEVA Planks! These are amazing when they are assembled, and even more amazing to watch collapse.

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The Making Across Montana exhibition is supported by IMLS

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services generously supports the work of spectrUM in delivering the Making Across Montana exhibition to schools, libraries and other organizations across the state of Montana.

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Here's where we purchased our Pixel Pegs giant lite brite exhibit: https://www.pixelpegs.shop

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The kids certainly embraced our new Pixel Pegs challenges - and especially loved to recreate Pac Man and his accompanying ghosts. Good to see that the kids still enjoy this iconic video game character!

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We had a wonderful time visiting Dayton Elementary school with our Making Across Montana exhibition. We had two separate rooms - one was light and shadow play, the other engineering and building. It was great to turn the lights off and explore telling stories and making shadow puppets in the dark for Halloween!

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Bats, spider webs and spooky stories, oh my!

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We had so much fun using shadow puppets from hands, our laser-cut silhouettes and a bunch of tulle fabric! Kids came up with a number of fascinating Halloween-themed stories.

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A few kids at Dayton Elementary figured out that you can make some wild visual effects using our Rainbow Light Box. Wiggling your hands very fast makes for some crazy effects because of the pixellation that it creates!

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We welcomed all 60+ kids at Dayton Elementary school to play with our Pixel Pegs exhibit - it was very popular! Be sure to check it out on the museum floor at our space in the new Missoula Public Library.

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Someone was very happy to play with our Pixel Pegs exhibit on the museum floor!