Children's Creativity Museum

The children's Creativity Museum will test an adaptation of the Augmented Reality Sandbox (AR Sandbox) targeted at children aged 2-12. The AR Sandbox is an existing open-source educational tool that allows older users to manipulate the surface of a sandbox and create colorful visualizations in real time that convey sophisticated geological and hydrological concepts. By developing new facilitated activities and interpretive signage for young children using the AR Sandbox, the museum intends to deliver STEM content; offer a new tool for creative expression with the sand and color projections used as an artistic medium; and support early childhood literacy by inviting children to use their fingers to write letters and numbers. The results of this work will be shared through the existing AR Sandbox Forum community.