National Geekdad Day

180,104 Celebrated Geekdad Day!

Grab your safety glasses and your kids, we’ve taken over Father’s Day – and the rest of the year, too! Being a GeekDad or GeekMom is a year-round vocation, and we want to support you in your calling with cool activities and experiments picked by WIRED just for families like yours. These projects will help you jumpstart a lifelong love of science and technology for your kids. Plus, everyone learns how to make their own fun.

Over 180,000 people joined the GeekDad movement for our first ever GeekDad Day, but that doesn’t mean you can’t now. Start thinking about the projects and experiments you can do at home with your family, or visit one of the museums across the country that supported GeekDad Day.

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PROJECTS FOR YOU AND THE KIDS

The Wired Guide to being the coolest father* on the planet.

Build a Trebuchet

Make This Father’s Day National GeekDad Day!

Make a Buckminster Fuller Blanket Fort

Watch Star Wars The Right Way

Plan a Trip

The Geekdad Toolbox Must-Have Hardware

Science in the Bath

Build a Hovercraft With Your Kids

How to Make Electric Play-Doh

Dissect It

How to Bike With Your Kids

Keep YouTube to Yourself

Cool Science Kits

Cook Up Some Glow Worms

Page Turners for Younglings

Princess Free Stories

How to Build an Art Bot

Mold a Dino Fossil

Toys for Brainy Tots

GeekDad Puzzles for Ages 6-17

* or mother or uncle or grandparent

Projects from the GeekDad books

Never-Ending Demolition Derby

Nerf Dart Blowgun

Measure the Speed of Light With Chocolate

Windup-Toy Finger Painting

The Magic of Mentos and Soda

Homemade Steam Engine

Projects from YOU and the GeekDad Community

Build a Kid-Powered Trebuchet

Build an Heirloom Car

Building a Custom Cabin Bed

Build an Arduino Theremin

Build a LEGO Pinewood Derby Car

Build a NERF Assault Vehicle

Hack a Doodle-Track Car Into a Light-Seeking Robot

Create Your Own LEGO Poetry





EVENTS NEAR YOU

Arizona Science Center, Phoenix

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CA

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver

ExplOratorium, San Francisco

Kids Discovery Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA

The Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA

Liberty Science Center, Jersey City

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

New York Hall of Science, Queens

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), Portland

Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis

Space Center Houston, Houston

TechShop, All Locations