Hello, I am CiCi. I am 13 years old and I
live in Cambridge, MA. Today we went to the MIT museum in Cambridge. We saw how
the human brain worked, did coding on Scratch, looked at art and innovation
done by local students. We also said goodbye to the robotics exhibit, which is
going away after 19 years. They will be hosting a goodbye party soon where you
can create our own robot to march in a goodbye robot parade.
This is Essy, I am 11 years old. Today we
went to the MIT Museum. They have a great technology exhibit, where you can see
what each of the things do. We drew pictures of the brain. On the first floor there
is a big white thing that moves with no mechanical parts! Everything I did was
fun and I hope I get to go back again soon.
Hey, I am KayZee and I am the mother of
these two wonder young ladies. We have lived in the Boston area for nine years
and although we have done many of the things in and around Boston, there are so many things to do that there are some things we have simply
neglected or did not know about until we started looking into ALL the things we
could do this Summer.
We began with a museum that is local to us
in Cambridge, the MIT museum. This is a cute little museum right on Mass Ave
between Central and Kendall Squares. It is not very big and is good if you only
have a couple hours or don’t want to spend all day inside.
We checked the website before going and
discovered in July and August you can get in free with your Cambridge Library
Cards. So the song is true, “Having fun isn’t hard, when you have a Library
Card.”
The girls headed directly up stairs where
they spent time coding and talking to the attendants about the 3-D printer and
the museum itself. The staff was amazing and kept my girls engaged for 15-20
mins. This is where CiCi learned all about the departure of the robots and the
planned Robot Parade (which did result in a conversation about the They Might Be Giants Song by that name).
We spent quite bit of time in the section the girls
called the Hall of Brains, which included pictures and interactive exhibits on
the human brain; this is where we drew picture of parts of the brain.
The last thing we looked at on this floor was a hall
full of machines. The room was dancing with machines, performing absolutely superfluous
tasks, ultimately accomplishing nothing other than to delight and amaze the
onlooker. Each one a unique and amazing beauty. Some of the machines were large
and unwieldy and some of them were intricate and delicate, all of them were wondrous
works of art.
Once we were finished with the upper floor we descended
the musical stairs to the lower level where there was a giant white inflatable
squid, for lack of a better description, that took up half the room. It moved
and appeared to be breathing and can be seen through the window on street
level.
We only spent a couple of hours in the Museum but it
delighted and entertained us all. We will definitely go there again.
On Saturday, my mother and my father and I had an impromptu adventure. We were walking through Central Square. There were two people on the sidewalk telling families about a free African dance and culture festival. They said we should go inside and up stairs. So we tried it out wand it was so cool. We went up stairs and were greeted by a man and a woman. The man taught us songs and showed us how to dance. It was a lot of fun. We did not stay for very long because we had other things we needed to do. Since it was going on for two days, my father and I decided to go back the next day. On Sunday we went again and stayed for several hours. We learned about Senegal, about the country and the people. We learned several dances and the clapping to go with them. There was a drummer. It was a lot of fun. I want to go again next year
