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Tinkering Club: Electronic Chain Reactions (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You’re invited to… Tinkering Club: Electronic Chain Reactions We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? Celebrate the creative application, design, innovation and invention involved in creating electronic chain reactions. A Chain Reaction is an activity where each item has an effect...

A boy wearing a pair of virtual reality glasses

Lab Live: Future Me

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A festival of the future in the Lab and the 12,000sq ft Engine Hall!

Design Thinking: primary education research study

Imagination Lab (iOi)

You're invited to... Design Thinking Workshop for primary school educators We are hosting a research evening with Michelle Borda, MA student at UCL Institute of Education. What is Design Thinking? Design Thinking it is a powerful innovation tool that engages participants in an analytic and creative process. It is currently being used as a learning method...

Two students with a laptop

Lab Learn: Building a Super City

A school sessions for Key Stage 2 classes in the boroughs of City of Westminster, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing, Harrow, Kensington and Chelsea

Imagination Lab Volunteering Evening

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Find out what volunteering at the Imagination Lab is like.

Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab

You’re invited to…Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme) At the Imagination Lab we will be exploring happiness and silliness though a range of fun activities! We forget how important it is to have fun, laugh and be silly. You will have the chance to explore, test and make with Jack-in the-box machines, play...

Lab Life: Tinkering with Motors (Home Ed)

Imagination Lab

Lab Life: Tinkering with Motors (Home Ed) The Institute of Imagination will be celebrating creative application, design, innovation and invention using hobby motors. In our Imagination Lab we are inviting home educated children and their parents/carers to come and create their own moving jitterbugs, bottle speed cars and bubble machines, through an exploration of the possibilities...

Lab Learn: Mark Making and Dance (Lambeth Community Programme)

You're invited to Lab Learn: Mark Making and Dance with Siobhan Davies Dance company (Lambeth Community Programme) These workshops will provide a fun, imaginative and sensorial experience of cause and effect. We will look at the ways in which cause and effect play out in movement and the multiplicity of ways in which the moving body...

Lab Life: Super City (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab

You’re invited to…Lab Life: Super City (Lambeth Community Programme) What might a city of the future look like? How might we live and move around it? How would you animate it with people? Join Sculptor Jim Bond, wire artist Helaina Sharpley and Maker extraordinaire Samantha Bryan as we add more creations to Super City, a collaborative and...

Lab Liftoff: Mega Machines

Imagination Lab

Electronics, mechanics and programming Summer activity camps with MakerClub

Children with a cardboard and mechanical robot

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Imagine, design and build a moving robot animal for the robot zoo in a one or two day camp.

Lab Life: Tinkering Day Project (Lambeth residents)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You’re invited to… Lab Life: Tinkering Day Project (Lambeth residents) Join us at the Imagination Lab on 9 or 10 August where we will be exploring: Physical games such as tag, how fast your reflexes are and reinventing these games through digital code. Pinbal and Board Games: by building digital dice, recreating operation or making LED snakes and...

Lab Liftoff: Coding Camp with FUZE

You’re invited to… Lab Liftoff: Coding Camp with FUZE Imagination Camp FUZE Workshops consist of a full day’s coding activities, learning to code using a real text based programming language. Children from 7-14 years old get to code simple programs, control electronic circuits, interact with sensors and even code a robot arm. The activities are...

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Imagination Lab Volunteering Evening

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You’re invited to…find out more about volunteering with the iOi Come to the Imagination Lab to find out more about volunteering opportunities with the iOi. Volunteers are crucial to our work and with your help, we can make a real difference to the lives of children and families. During this 1.5 hour session, you will:...

London Curriculum Children’s Festival

SE1 2AA Potters Fields Park, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to... London Curriculum Children's Festival We're excited to be a part of the London Curriculum Children's Festival, where we'll be hosting a water rafting workshop for children and families. Come and see us at Potters Fields for a fun afternoon of free workshops, family activities and more. Water Rafting Workshop The act of making a raft...

three students and a teacher with a laptop

Lab Learn: Making Movement (Lambeth Community Programme) FULLY BOOKED

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

  You are invited to…Lab Learn: Making Movement This event is now fully booked. Movement plays an integral part in our everyday lives. We are always fascinated how, why and what makes something move in our world. These sessions at the Imagination Lab explore, test and experiment the theme ‘Making Movement’ through mechanical wire automatons, jitterbug...

Five children using household objects as instruments

Lab Learn: Science of Sound

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Schools sessions for Key Stage 2 classes at schools located in Barnet, Brent, City of London, Westminster, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing, Harrow, Kensington and Chelsea

Lab Live: Why oh Why? with OKIDO

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A hands-on STEAM family festival celebrating science, technology, engineering, arts and maths at the Imagination Lab

Lab Life: Making Mechanisms

Lab Life: Making Mechanisms (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab

You are invited to…Lab Life: Making Mechanisms Mechanisms are all around us. They make our lives and jobs easier, often without us consciously recognising them. At Lab Life: Making Mechanisms, you'll be able to explore the crossover between engineering, art and science, with two workshop activities that allow you to create your own automata and sorting,...

Five children using household objects as instruments

Lab Learn: Robot Zoo FULLY BOOKED

Imagination Lab at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Lab Learn: Robot Zoo This event is now fully booked. To celebrate EU Code Week 2018, we're excited to be running a beginner friendly ‘hackathon’ focussed on coding and programming, while fusing technology, science and arts. Lab Learn: Robot Zoo will be a free workshop for school children to play, explore and tinker in...

Tinkering Club: Tinkering with Velocity (Lambeth Community Programme) FULLY BOOKED

Imagination Lab

You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Velocity This event is now fully booked. Join us at the Imagination Lab to satisfy your need for speed! At Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Velocity, we will be playing and experimenting with elasticity, balloon power, electricity, motors and Micro:bits. We’ll be exploring how we make robots, paper aeroplanes,...

Lab Late: Building A Rube Goldberg Machine

Imagination Lab

You’re invited to… explore, invent and tinker at Lab Late: Building A Rube Goldberg Machine Are you interested in encouraging children's interest in engineering? Want to get hands on and build your own Rube Goldberg Machine? At our next Lab Late, join us and Kids Invent Stuff to get inspired by engineering and get tips and ideas about how...

Tinkering Club: Tinkering with Flight (Lambeth Community Programme) FULLY BOOKED

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Flight This event is now fully booked. Join us for an extra-special Tinkering Club to explore the topics of electrification and flight, in partnership with Rolls-Royce. There will be two activity stations to spark the imaginations of young inventors. Activity Station One: What could become possible – now and in the future –...

Lab Learn: Pioneering The Power That Matters

Imagination Lab at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Lab Learn: Pioneering The Power That Matters book now What could become possible – now and in the future – with the power of electrification? We’re partnering with Rolls-Royce to inspire new generations about the challenges and possibilities presented by our future energy demands, as well as introduce the role that electrification...

A boy with a toy

Lab Life: Pioneering The Power That Matters (FULLY BOOKED)

Imagination Lab

You are invited to…Lab Life: Pioneering The Power That Matters This event is now fully booked.  What could become possible – now and in the future – with the power of electrification? We’re partnering with Rolls-Royce to inspire new generations about the challenges and possibilities presented by our future energy demands, as well as introduce...

RE:CODE London

Imagination Lab at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

Schools and Home Education sessions for 8-12 year olds

Festive Maker Market

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to… Festive Maker Market! Smart gifts for curious minds book now  We’re celebrating the festive period in style at the Imagination Lab… with a magical Festive Maker Market! Teaming up with some of our most popular partners from throughout the year (as well as some exciting new makers), the Festive Maker Market...

Lab Learn: Pioneering The Power That Matters

Imagination Lab at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Lab Learn: Pioneering The Power That Matters book now What could become possible – now and in the future – with the power of electrification? We’re partnering with Rolls-Royce to inspire new generations about the challenges and possibilities presented by our future energy demands, as well as introduce the role that electrification...

Lab Life: Winter Wonders (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab

You are invited to… Lab Life: Winter Wonders (Lambeth Community Programme) book now Kickstart the season of giving with some festive making and tinkering at the Imagination Lab! What can I expect at Lab Life: Winter Wonders? At Lab Life: Winter Wonders, you’ll be able to create a host of handmade gifts with three crafty...

Tinkering Club: Tinkering with Electronics & Circuits (Lambeth Community Programme) FULLY BOOKED

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Electronics & Circuits This event is now fully booked. We’ll be getting into the Christmas spirit at Tinkering Club in December. Come along to the Imagination Lab where we’ll be making Christmas-themed products by tinkering with electronics and circuit making. We’ll be experimenting with soldering, LED, sounds, parallel...

Coding Camp

Lab Liftoff: Coding Camp with FUZE

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

One day coding camp during the Christmas holidays

Imagination Lab Volunteer Information Evening

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You’re invited to…find out more about volunteering with the iOi Come to the Imagination Lab to find out more about volunteering opportunities with the iOi. Volunteers are crucial to our work and with your help, we can make a real difference to the lives of children and families. During this 1.5 hour session, you will:...

A father and son with a lego robot

RE:CODE London: Islington Computing Celebration

We’re taking our award winning RE:CODE London schools session to the 2019 Islington Computing Celebration at Emirates Stadium. This event celebrates computing and digital activities from Islington Schools and beyond and includes demonstrations from 100s of children and digital leaders showcasing their amazing digital and computing projects from the last year. We’re taking RE:CODE London...

three microbit computers and LEDs

Code Green at the Winter Lights Festival

Jubilee Place Mall Jubilee Place Mall, Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom

Put your coding skills to the test at our interactive light installation in Canary Wharf.

Tinkering Club: Fantastic Beasts and How To Make Them (Lambeth)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Fantastic Beasts and How To Make Them This Tinkering Club has a magical twist! Come alog to the Imagination Lab, where you’ll discover fantastic beasts and how to make them. From griffins and bowtruckles to any fantastical creature you can create using your imagination, get hands-on using micro:bits, motors and structural...

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.

A boy with a toy

Lab Liftoff: Micro:bit, Make & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children 7-12 exploring coding, creative invention and making using Micro:bit, motors and sensors

Lab Liftoff: Game & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.

Recurring

Coding Camp with FUZE

Imagination Lab at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

Coding camp for 7-14 year olds. Code simple programs, control electronic circuits, interact with sensors and more.

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.

Tinkering Club: Coding Light and Sound (Lambeth Community Programme)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

You’re invited to…Tinkering Club: Coding Light & Sound We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? This month children will learn how to code light and sound. Using BBC Micro: bits, LED’s and structural materials children will be able to create...

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code (SOLD OUT)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo (SOLD OUT)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children ages 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit, a tiny programmable computer!

Lab Liftoff: Game & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.

Lab Liftoff: Game & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.

three children and their robot creations

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp for children ages 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit, a tiny programmable computer!

Recurring

Lab Learn: The Firebird Lab

Imagination Lab 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A schools workshop for Key Stage 2 students exploring empathy through multi-sensory games and activities.

Two girls with balloons
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Lab Live: Curiosity with OKIDO

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

A hands-on family festival celebrating curiosity at the Imagination Lab - book for 18 and 19 May.

two girls making a robot cat

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A full day Half Term skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit.

boy coding

Lab Liftoff: Game Invention

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A full day Half Term skills camp for children aged 7-12 years, inventing games and learning to code with BBC micro:bit.

boy looking at computer

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A day long Half Term skills camp for children 7-12 exploring coding and robotics with LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 kits.

Bittersuite sensory experience

Lab Late: Sensory Jam

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

An evening event for adults with Bittersuite, this year's winners of the Cultural Residency.

Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A chance to find out about volunteering with us, in Volunteers Week!

An image of children playing with a LEGO WeDo robot. Image by Kois Miah © GLA

RE:CODE London

Award-winning schools sessions for 9-11 year olds with the LEGO Group and the Mayor of London. There are sessions in Feb, Mar and Jun for mainstream, SEND and home education groups.

Recurring

RE:CODE London Home Education

Imagination Lab 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A creative, problem-solving workshop using robotics for Home Education students.

Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

You’re invited to… Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering Throughout August, we are putting on a major summer experience for families to tinker, experiment and play together and we need dedicated volunteers to help bring this to life – the Mega Maker Lab The Mega Maker Lab will be a 12,000 sq ft experience, imagined by young...

two children and robot elephant made of cardboard

Lab Life: Robotics Reimagined (Lambeth)

Imagination Lab 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A half day workshop for families to learn to code, build and invent together.

Lab Late: Sensory Jam

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

An evening of live music, movement workshops and fun for adults at the Imagination Lab

Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

You’re invited to… Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering Throughout August, we are putting on a major summer experience for families to tinker, experiment and play together and we need dedicated volunteers to help bring this to life – the Mega Maker Lab The Mega Maker Lab will be a 12,000 sq ft experience, imagined by young...

Lab Life: Making Movement (The Firebird Lab experience)

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, Lambeth, East of England, United Kingdom

Part workshop, part performance, add your imaginative stories inspired by music to The Firebird Lab experience.

Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteering

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Find out about summer volunteering opportunities with us at Mega Maker Lab in August and meet the team.

Volunteer Evening: Summer Volunteer

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Your chance to preview Mega Maker Lab before volunteering in August and find out more about your volunteering role.

Mega Maker Lab: Weekday

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Book for 1-31 August weekday entry to Mega Maker Lab, a summer celebration of creativity, invention, making…and fun!

Mega Maker Lab: Weekender

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Book for 1-31 August weekend entry to Mega Maker Lab, a summer celebration of creativity, invention, making…and fun!

LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Kits

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A day long coding skills camp for children aged 7-12

An image of a long table with children and 3 men with lab coats

Mega Maker Lab: Celebrating Neurodiversity

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A quieter day to explore Mega Maker Lab. This day is particularly focussed on enhancing the experience for children with SEN.

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A day long robotics workshop for children aged 7-12 using BBC Micro:bit

Lab Liftoff Light Art

Lab Liftoff: Light Art

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A full day skills camp exploring electrical circuits

Make Some Noise Masterclass + Mega Maker Lab entry

Imagination Lab 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

A masterclass exploring coding, conductivity, sound and music by learning how to create circuits and applying computer code and improvised sound and music

Lab Liftoff: Bricks & Code

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A day long coding skills camp for children aged 7-12

BBC micro:bit

Lab Liftoff: Robot Zoo

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

A day long skills camp with BBC micro:bit for children aged 7-12

BBC micro:bit

Do Your Bit: Hackathon

Imagination Lab The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, England, United Kingdom

Explore the creativity of micro:bit (micro-computing) hosted by us as part of the global micro:bit challenge!

STIXX installation and boy

Leonardo’s Ingenious Inventions

The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom

Join a workshop at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.

matt + fiona and students

Lab Learn Hub: Space Exploration

A day-long school's workshop for Year 3,4 and 5 classes based in Southwark. Alongside this, teachers will take part in CDP sessions

LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 and father and son

RE:CODE London [FULLY BOOKED]

The award winning programme for schools with LEGO Group and Mayor of London. For years 5 and 6.

virtual reality headsets

Creative Tech Pop-Up Workshop

Curry's PC World Brixton Effra Road Retail Park, London

A pop-up at Curry’s PC World, Brixton with creative technology tasters.

Mum and daughter with iPad

Imagination Hub Family Day at South Friern Library

South Friern Library South Friern Library, Colney Hatch Lane , London, United Kingdom

We're popping up at South Friern Library for workshops in creative coding and digital storytelling.

Focus Group: Artificial Intelligence in Toys

Second Home Spitalfields 68 Hanbury Street, London, England, United Kingdom

We need your opinions! Join a focus group for adults exploring the ethics of artificial intelligence in toy.

RE:CODE London – POSTPONED

The Crystal Royal Victoria Dock, One Siemens Brothers Way, Royal Docks, London, United Kingdom

A schools workshop for Year 5 and 6 held at The Crystal

Lambeth Sparks Virtual Family Workshop

If your child took part in the Lambeth Sparks programme, we're inviting them to use their imagination to create a stop motion story!

Online Volunteer Evening

Join us for our Online Volunteer Evening to find out more about volunteering opportunities with the iOi.

Free

Man, girl, box

Newham Imagination Box

Sign up for a funded imagination box - a creative resource pack for children and young people from Newham

iOi Volunteer Training

Join us for our Online Volunteer Evening to find out more about volunteering opportunities with the iOi.

Free

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The Big Build

Visit public sculptures inspired by the young people of Newham!

Lambeth Libraries: Digital Handheld Cities

You’re invited to... Lambeth Libraries: Digital Handheld Cities iOi at Home is a new creative programme in Lambeth. iOi and Lambeth Libraries are working together to bring families in Lambeth a Digital Lending Library where equipment can be borrowed and used at home to support learning, experimentation and playing with imagination! In this workshop we...

Free

Switch the Docks

Raw Labs Bow Arts, Upper 2GU, 1-2 Dock Rd, London E16 1AG Upper 2GU, 1-2 Dock Rd, London E16 1AG, London

Interactive light box installation celebrating the Royal Docks.

Arts Depot: SEND Family Workshop

Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street Tally Ho Corner North Finchley London

Design your own lightbox in this inclusive workshop

Saturday SEND Family Day

Chalkhill Community Centre 113 Chalkhill Rd, Wembley Park, Wembley, England, United Kingdom

Brent Parent Carer Forum Join us for SEND Family Day!

Free

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