This long-standing collaboration underscores Toyota’s commitment to the communities it serves while inspiring students to become interested in STEAM. It’s not just about providing financial support sharing knowledge and collaborating with the community is what successfully propels Toyota’s efforts forward. Beginning in 2008, the company worked closely on the development of the STEAM exhibit, “Engineers on a Roll,” an immersive and interactive preschool experience mouse trap game designed specifically to inspire preschool-aged visitors to touch, see, and to learn through play. STEAM PARK, which will be part of the museum’s permanent display, ensures a long line of future inventors will have the chance to get their hands on the wheels of production.įor nearly two decades, TMNA R&D, headquartered in Michigan, has collaborated on several initiatives with Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, which serves close to 400,000 visitors annually from across the state. The visitor makes it work, and you look at all these pieces and parts, from levers to gears to pulleys and conveyors,” explains Mel Drumm, president and chief executive officer of the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum.įrom ideation to design, TMNA R&D engineers collaborated with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum to develop the space and the nearly two dozen exhibits for more than two years. “It’s all mechanical and driven by the visitor. There is even a floor-to-ceiling, multi-interactive 17th-century clock for those who see mere cogs in the machine as priceless learning opportunities. STEAM PARK offers the increasingly rare tactile experience of interactive mechanical exhibits, which come with names that could come right out of a Jules Verne story, such as Window Maze Ball Machine, Airfoil, Propeller Chair and a first-in-the-world digital Roulette Curve. And while the future of innovation is assuredly high-tech, the root of inquiry rests with the analog world of the inner workings of machines. Introduced today, the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum STEAM PARK was designed with the mission to help inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and artists. Now, these same catalysts to innovation have a new place to work their magic. When the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum asked a team of Toyota Motor North America Research & Development (TMNA R&D) employees what led them to become an engineer, scientist or researcher, each pointed to a moment of childhood wonder as the spark of curiosity that blossomed into a career. Achievements in science and art start with the same spark: wonder.
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