Exhibits
Cahners ComputerPlace
Computer, Communications, Robotics, Science, and Technology
Cahners ComputerPlace — your portal into the digital world:
Bytes!
- Build your own computer model at the "Computer Build Bench."
- Chat with Ada and Grace, our new virtual human guides, and go behind the scenes at "InterFaces" (follow link above to enter the virtual exhibit). This is a collaboration with University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies.
- Get advice from Tinker, a relational agent who can remember meeting you! Tinker is a collaboration with Northeastern University.
- Design and program animations and games using Scratch.
- Build electronic inventions, like musical Play-Doh, using PicoCrickets.
Bots!
- Compare gecko-inspired climbing robots to live geckos with BioBots, a collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.
- Train a robot dog to obey commands.
- Program a robot by connecting wooden blocks at "Robot Park," a collaboration with Tufts University.
- Operate a Personal Exploration Rover from Mission Control at the "Mars Yard."
- Check out a military robot that served in Iraq to protect soldiers from harm.
Visit Cahners ComputerPlace and chat about your digital world with our human educators.
Download our software list (below) for a descriptive list and sources for software presented in ComputerPlace.
When the Museum of Science Exhibit Halls are open, Cahners ComputerPlace is available:
Saturday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Extended hours (MA school vacation weeks and summer through Labor Day):
Saturday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:45 p.m.
Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
| Format | Exhibit |
| Grades | K – Adult |
| Location | Blue Wing, Level 1 — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | Enter the InterFaces Virtual Exhibit |
| Educator Guide | MOS_CCP_Guide.pdf |
| Documents | CCP Software List.pdf |
| Related Links | Carnegie Mellon University's NanoRobotics Lab Exponent's MARCbot: A Military Robot iRobot Create: Programmable Robot Magic of Magnetism Personal Exploration Rover: Simulating a Mars Mission PicoCricket: Electronic Invention Kit Scratch: Programming Animations, Games and Music Tern: Tangible Programming Tinker: A Virtual Museum Guide |
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Primary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Technology/Engineering > Communication Technologies (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Technology/Engineering > Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Technology/Engineering > Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
- Technology/Engineering > Communication Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
Secondary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Technology/Engineering > Engineering Design (Grade: 9 – 10)
- Technology/Engineering > Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
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Primary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: 3 – 5)
Select and use appropriate tools and technology (e.g., calculators, computers, balances, scales, meter sticks, graduated cylinders) in order to extend observations. - Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: 6 – 8)
Select appropriate tools and technology (e.g., calculators, computers, thermometers, meter sticks, balances, graduated cylinders, and microscopes), and make quantitative observations. - Technology/Engineering > 3.2 Communication Technologies (Grade: 6 – 8)
Identify and explain the appropriate tools, machines, and electronic devices (e.g., drawing tools, computer-aided design, and cameras) used to produce and/or reproduce design solutions (e.g., engineering drawings, prototypes, and reports). - Technology/Engineering > 4.2 Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 6 – 8)
Explain and give examples of the impacts of interchangeable parts, components of mass-produced products, and the use of automation, e.g., robotics. - Technology/Engineering > 7.3 Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
Explain the process and the programming of robotic action utilizing three axes. - Technology/Engineering > 6.1 Communication Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
Identify and explain the applications of light in communications, e.g., reflection, refraction, additive, and subtractive color theory.
Secondary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Technology/Engineering > 1.3 Engineering Design (Grade: 9 – 10)
Demonstrate the use of drafting techniques with paper and pencil or computer-aided design (CAD) systems when available. - Technology/Engineering > 7.2 Manufacturing Technologies (Grade: 9 – 10)
Differentiate the selection of tools and procedures used in the safe production of products in the manufacturing process, e.g., hand tools, power tools, computer-aided manufacturing, three-dimensional modeling.
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