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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The core program is a permanent, dedicated physical space, full of interactive hands-on physical exhibits, as well as a tinkering and making space, and recycled materials. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. The first one was in the Mission.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names.