Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, & Maths Programming
Aaron Bradford Starr Design specializes in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education, which emphasizes the integration of the arts into STEM fields to foster creativity, innovation, and holistic problem-solving.
In educational and professional settings, the integration of arts with STEM is seen as a way to enhance creative thinking and engagement, encouraging students to approach problems from different perspectives and work collaboratively. This approach aims to prepare students for the future by developing both their analytical and creative skills.
Workshops
Zendo
Science, Games
In this game of making tiny sculptures from game pieces, learn the basics of the scientific method, while discovering the joys of often being wrong.
Medieval Engineering: Trebuchet
Technology, Games
Materials Cost
Design and construct a miniature, functional trebuchet, the real-life catapult that brought down castle walls, an ushered in the end of the age of castles.
Chaotic Motion
Technology, Games
Materials Cost
Build a Lorenz Windmill, the device that helped illustrate the concepts behind the modern science of chaos theory, and explore the strange and entirely unpredictable motion it creates.
Ciphers and Codes
Technology, Writing
Impress your friends and fool your enemies! Go beyond the basics of letter-replacement systems, and learn other techniques to turn written messages into unintelligible gibberish, and back again, and design your own personal code system.
Strange and Beautiful Scripts
Art/Technology, Writing
Uncover some of why our writing looks the way it does, and discover the possibilities for how it could have looked. Then design and write in a new writing system that you create, converting the sounds we speak into a unique written form.
Gamification
Engineering, Games
Learn how to turn literally any process you don't like into a real-world game. Explore different methods to keep you moving forward with the things you'd rather not do or consistently forget.
City Cubes
Engineering, Games
Play through a game of City Cubes, where four teams work together to build a cityscape. The rules are always simple, the goals are always clear, and the teams are always working together. So why is it so hard to complete? Learn how people get in each others way when everyone wants to reach the same goal by different routes!
Math Without Math
Math, Games
First, learn and play a series of unusual tabletop games, all of them fun, and all publicly available, none of them meant to be educational. Then explore the math hidden within them, and learn why humans secretly love mathematics, especially when it's hidden.
Tessellation and Infinite Art
Math, Art
Create your own repeating patterns of animals and birds, fish and monsters, with this workshop on the mathematical concept of tessellation, made famous by M.C. Escher.
Follow Me
Engineering, Art
X marks the spot! Or does it? Learn the art and science of dead reckoning, and create a path of drawings to guide others to where you've hidden a secret treasure.
Walk the Solar System
Science, Games
Discover the mind-boggling size of our solar system by walking from the sun to the outermost edges of our solar system, to Pluto and beyond.
Classes
Tabletop Game Design
Engineering, Games
No game you've ever played started out the way you play it. Each 6-session workshop will cover the basics of a particular type of tabletop game (as opposed to video games or apps), such as Abstract Boardgames, Card Games, and Civilization Games. Learn basic game design theory, and begin with a rudimentary version. Then learn and practice proven playtesting methods with each other to alter and balance your game. Hard work was never this much fun!
Science Fiction Shorts
Science, Writing
In this 6-week course, bring an idea to life through all stages of the writing process, from initial ideas to final draft. Learn about common pitfalls, share your successes, and find writing partners to keep the stories moving forward.
Knots, Angles and Colors
Math, Art
This 6-week class explores the many ways that different cultures have used math in their art to create designs that repeat, interlock, and impress.
Here to There: Basic Perspective
Engineering, Art
Learn how to correctly create the illusion of space with this 6-week drawing class. Create mazes and cityscapes, castles and towers, all in multiple different views.
Drawing Plants and Flowers
Science, Art
Plants and flowers make amazing subjects for art of all kinds. Learn and practice techniques to make illustrations of all types of plants and flowers.
Fur, Feathers, and Scales: Drawing Animals
Science, Art
Learn and practice basic observation techniques to accurately draw our furry friends.
Bees, Butterflies, and Graphite: Drawing Insects
Science, Art
Get up close and personal with our most numerous cousins, and make beautiful drawings of their
delicate and detailed forms.