Laura Zander is a strategic, results-driven executive with deep expertise in financial leadership, operations, and organizational effectiveness.

Starting this week, the sound of saws and hammers filled UN Plaza near San Francisco’s Civic Center. Within the month, construction sounds will be replaced with the ringing of chimes and other ...

Hey everyone! This year is my first time getting into the Halloween spirit. Growing up in Australia, I never got to experience the joys of pumpkin carving, trick or treating, or dressing up in my most ...

Like a lot of people right now, my workspace looks a little different. I prototype on the kitchen table instead of in the Tinkering Studio, and I’ve essentially stopped ever taking out the recycling ...

In 2021, the LEGO Foundation started a community of practice called the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network (PLMN). A shared commitment to playful learning binds our 22 member institutions together: ...

To create an edge-lit acrylic wearable, we asked participants to do three things: draw their design, cut it out with the Glowforge, and create their light-up wearable. We encouraged them to think ...

Road trip! Scouting Oregon locations for filming the 2017 solar eclipse.

Over the past few weeks we've been continuing our experiments with BeetleBlocks and Watercolorbot, bringing some new ideas to the fold. We were originally inspired by the SCOTUS decision last week and ...

How effective is voting? In this video we explore some of the ways in which the democratic process can go wrong.

As a tinkerer-in-residence at the Exploratorium I’ve been playing with putting a computational spin on tinkering activities like light painting. When I started to tinker with light painting, I kept ...

This semester at Lighthouse Afterschool Program we're exploring light, shadow, and color related activities. After making our journals, the next activity we dove into was Light Painting. We spent two ...

As Sebastian and I were dreaming up the pop-up makerspace at Ecsite 2016, we talked about running a series of activities that built on each other over time but also provided low-threshold ...