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Set Up Your Laboratory
Fill a box full of premium quality junk so you'll have the proper stuff for building.  Check out the Stock Room for parts, tools and supplies.  Build a machine that greets visitors.  Make a brainstorm bonnet and decorate your lab jacket.  Then hang a "shingle" on your door so everyone will know you're open for business.
Critter Cartoons
Did your mom ever tell you not to play with your food?  You'll need a good collection of funny-looking fruits and veggies, nuts, craft supplies and premium quality junk. Then you'll need to dream up some jokes and cartoon story lines. Finally, you've got to make your critter come to life and act out your storyline!
Mechanical Garden
This project was initiated at MIT for a workshop at the Smithsonian Museum. Simulate the sounds and motions of plants and animals in an exotic garden. 
Bionic Boozer
Simulate what happens in your body when you get drunk.  This is a relatively complex and accurate mechanical simulation of the circulatory, digestive and nervous systems.  It was developed by Dr. Kim at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and 40 juniors at the Greater Lawrence Technical School.
Pirates' Cove
Build-It-Yourself is recruiting a crew of scallywags and misfits to build a fleet of pirate boats that will search the seas for fat bankers who have too much money!  "Avast ya bloody, nat brain, pigeon gut, lying weasel, double talking politician!  Yer money or yer life."
Robots that Earn Money 
Build-It-Yourself is looking for some hot shot inventors to fix the global economy.

Your mission is to design a machine that creates value, entertains, offers a service, puts people to work, and pays its inventors handsomely!

Max made $27.25 in one day from his candy machine.

Political Campaign Crew Members' Site
Do politicians make you say, "Arrrrrrrrg!#$?"

Your mission is to design a robot that knows what voters want and can win an election for President of the Wild Things!

Time Machines Crew Members' Site
Need an invention that will wake you up in the morning?  Or a machine that tells you when it's play time, lunch time, time out, real time ...

One of the clocks on this project site was in a playful inventions exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum.

Friendly Dragons Crew Members' Site
You can't judge a dragon by its scales!

Your mission is to design, build and present a dragon that dispels all prejudices against dragons.

Trucks
Messy "no-gooders" are mucking up our earth
by creating mountains of yucky garbage.
Your mission is to build a fleet of trucks.
to help haul away the mess.

Building Projects  
Music Machines Soap Box Racer
Sumo Wrestlers Chain Reaction Machines
Dream Houses Door Greeter
Robotic Receptionist Boats
Robotic Soccer Game Animal Feeder
Robotic Heart Robotic Baseball Game
Puppets Trivia Game Robot
Kinetic Sculptures Wearables
Flying Machines  
   
Software Projects  
Scratch Computer Programming Digital Graphic Design
Web Page Design Computer Game Development
Entrepreneur's Workshop Digital Photography
Animation Digital Music

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