Tested: Adam visits the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, where he learns about how they nurture the interests and skills of the very youngest makers. While there, he also sees the PERFECT tape holder (that he later replicates for the shop) and learns how to operate a loom for the first time!
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This is really wonderful to see. As someone who grew up watching mythbusters Adam Savage was one of my major influences in becoming a maker and creator. I feel he is a very influential person among my generation and has inspired a lot of us. It is absolutely wonderful to see him continue to travel around promoting maker spaces and makers in general. Its nice to see him getting involved in these kinds of spaces. Its interesting to see the kind of changes that the operators of the museum want to make to have the kids working with more sophisticated and solid materials. I really believe that these kind of initiatives will help shape a future generation of makers and creators. It really overjoys me to see that this kind of push is happening and that it is more of a creative future that we want to give to our children.
I am so happy to see Adam Savage playing with the same loom I did when we went to the Children's Museum during Arts Orientation Night at Carnegie Mellon. When I was at the museum I was constantly amazed by the fantastic interactive elements that the creators of the museum incorporated. So often museums are either all learning or all playing. The Pittsburgh Children's Museum however incorporates both to bother entertain and explain science and life to children. As a child caretaker, both through babysitting and as a camp counselor, I know how important both are for the development of children both intellectually and artistically. The Children's Museum allows kids (and Adam Savage) to create art while using and learning to understand technology in the process. In my hopes an experience at this museum may be just what a child needs to spark their imagination. I would love to be a part of an organization like this one day and be able to make my mark in creating a future generation of artists and inventors.
This was a very heart warming segment to watch. It is incredible how much access the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh gives their patrons. I loved something that the museum employee mentioned which was "kids don't just drive themselves to the museum". I thought one of the really amazing things about the museum is that it is applicable for all ages. There were lots of adults sitting at the sewing table being able to enjoy the experience as well as their children. It definitely was prominent when CMU took the CFA students to the children's museum. Although we are nowhere near the target age of the museum, we were able to experience the joy, amusement and message of the museum. One thing that I had never noticed before about the museum were the Mr.Rodger's sweaters all around. I loved this webisode of Tested because it really helped advocate for the funding of our tomorrow, the children.
HOW COME EVERY TIME ADAM SAVAGE COMES TO PITTSBURGH I NEVER GET A GODDAMN NOTIFICATION. That was just a personal rant because I am a huge fan and am still hoping to meet him someday. Adam Savage is an important symbol in the maker movement and I feel that he's especially influential because so many of us watched Mythbusters when we were kids and had our imaginations captivated early on. Although he's off the TV screen, he's still traveling the world promoting the maker culture just by being frikken' cool and super interesting so I'm glad that we're not the only generation that he's appealing to. I also love the fact that he's a former props artisan so he's chock full with useful information on his channel which have helped me personally when it comes to making things. This is especially huge to me since I am considering props construction as a potential future career.
I will never forget the time CMU Drama took my freshman class to this museum during our initiation week. It really is one of the coolest and most well put together facilities that I know. I would like to say that they just attract children but then I would be lying to you. The children’s museum is a place for any age, any time. For my entire life I have been a hands on person so having the ability to feel like a kid again and work with the tools they have available is very cool. If this article did anything for me, it served a reminder to how interesting the children museum is and the fact that I have to go again and see what new toys they are rocking in this maker space for kids. So maybe it’s not a 3D printer or a laser cutter in this maker space but the thought of using a loom has never crossed my mind but it certainly something I want to try.
As Mark has succinctly expressed in his own comment above, every time Adam Savage makes it over here to Pittsburgh, I always find out about it after the fact. It's always an article about how much of a cool smart guy he is, how fun he was to talk to, how interesting his talk was. As a lifelong mythbusters consumer and Bay Area native, I feel like I deserved at some point to meet this goddamn fine specimen of a person. He lives near where I live for gods sake. I'm just saying, Adam savage, if you're reading this, hit me up. In other news, this reminds of how great the Bay Area maker culture is and just how many people are involved. The very first Maker Faire was organized in San Franciso, and now we have several mini maker faires, around the Bay Area, which, ironically were actually bigger than the Pittsburgh Maker Faire.
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