What's the best way to pick a place to go for dinner? How about picking the leader of the free world? Come learn about voting systems and the math behind them.

Poi is a performance art done with a pair of fist-sized weights attached to short strings You hold the strings in your hands and can learn to spin the weights around in different cool patterns. Performances can also have poi that are glowing LEDs or on fire! Type "poi performance" into Youtube to see examples! Stop by this walk-in to make your own poi and learn the basics!

Have you ever used a character creator, online dress-up game, or picrew? Did you know it's easy to make your own? In this class, we'll learn the basics of JavaScript and reactive programming, and use what we've learned to make a character creator website. We'll start simple and get as complicated as you want to! To get the most out of the class, you should have a very basic understanding of HTML and programming concepts (e.g. variables, functions, lists). You don’t need any experience with JavaScript or web development, but it’s fine if you have a little.

Making beautiful designer furniture is very hard. You would need years of practice, a workshop space, and some very expensive tools. Making mediocre furniture is much easier! In this three-class sequence, I'll teach you how to design and make furniture that's functional, cheap, and relatively pretty. I learned everything I know from hours of googling and screwing up; now I'll teach you and save you the time. You CAN try this at home!

For those of you who have never heard of induction, this is the class for you! Learn about a math technique used in all sorts of proofs, from proving that the last domino will fall if you push over the first one to proving (incorrectly) that all horses are the same color.

How did we go from the strict structure of sonnets to the wild world of free verse? From a dreamy movement in love with the natural world to modernist poems that find meaning in nothing at all? From lengthy epics to Anne Carson's "novel in verse"? In short - how did poetry become what it is today? Let's read some poems, talk about it, and maybe find out.

Tired of only ever reading male authors? Me too! Let's read some female poets instead. Some authors we might cover: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, and many more. We'll learn about some of the technical elements of poems, but we'll also take time to just enjoy the beauty of some well-written words.

People complain about the electoral college and about other systems of voting. But can there ever truly be a perfect system? We will use formal logic (in a proof!) to prove this definitively one way or the other.