The PIE Network: Promoting Science Inquiry and Engineering through Playful Invention and Exploration with New Digital Technologies

麻省理工学院媒体实验室将与六家博物馆合作，开发“有趣的发明和探索(PIE)网络”，目标是通过让更多的人用新的数字技术创造、发明和探索，让更多的受众参与科学研究和工程。PIE博物馆将把麻省理工学院的最新技术和教育研究整合到他们正在进行的公共项目中。博物馆将组织MindFest活动，效仿1999年麻省理工学院为期两天的活动，青年、教育工作者、艺术家、工程师、业余爱好者和研究人员齐聚一堂，就发明项目进行合作。PIE网络将向全国的教育工作者和家庭传播PIE的想法和活动。

The MIT Media Laboratory, in collaboration with six museums, will develop the "Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network," with the goal of engaging a broader audience in science inquiry and engineering by enabling more people to create, invent and explore with new digital technologies. PIE museums will integrate the latest MIT technologies and educational research into their ongoing public programs. The museums will organize MindFest events, modeled after a two-day event at MIT in 1999, at which youth, educators, artists, engineers, hobbyists and researchers came together to collaborate on invention projects. The PIE Network will disseminate PIE ideas and activities to educators and families nationally.