Engineering Week

What can you create out of gumdrops and toothpicks? Or out of paper, wooden blocks and paper clips? Go find out at the New York Hall of Science this week, when the museum celebrates engineering. On Monday, Civil Engineering Day, the American Society of Civil Engineers Metropolitan section will lead projects with household materials that reveal the important principles behind buildings and bridges. Activities the rest of the week will center on engineering for space, with screenings of episodes of the animated preschool television series “Space Racers” (Tuesday); nanoengineering, with demonstrations involving nano crystals (Wednesday); wearable engineering, including high-tech clothes and accessories (Thursday); and motor machine engineering, in which visitors can make their own inventions (next Friday).