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2025
Experimentation Over Expertise
Experimentation Over Expertise
Trying reveals more than knowing
Celebrate Failure
Celebrate Failure
Failure is an accelerant
Everyone Has Something to Teach
Everyone Has Something to Teach
Find learning in every moment
Seek What They Sought
Seek What They Sought
Learn from motivations, not outcomes
Life Is Not a Straight Line
Life Is Not a Straight Line
Embrace entropy
No Lonely Islands
No Lonely Islands
No learning goes to waste
Work from the Unknown to the Known
Work from the Unknown to the Known
Lead with vulnerability
Be as the Reed in the Wind
Be as the Reed in the Wind
Stay flexible under pressure
Timing Has a Way
Timing Has a Way
Luck is the residue of preparation
No Threats, Only Opportunities
No Threats, Only Opportunities
Barriers are also passages
What will you make?
Are humans robots?
How do we assemble letters?
What tools spark joy?
Where does energy live?
What questions lead us forward?
Is curiosity a civic act?
What does it mean to think?
Can you digitize and artifact?
What will you teach?
58 VOICES SHARED WITH CONGRESS
BUILT BY 534+ STUDENTS
DO. FILM. PUBLISH. LEARN.
1000 HOURS TO SCULPT 1000 HOURS TO DIGITIZE
26 UNIQUE FORMS
THE BUDMENS
HAPPY 2026 FROM

THE BUDMENS

Curiosity-driven makers, educators, inventors

The Workshop
OUR NEW STORE

The Workshop

is now open

Explore instruments of curiosity, each one started with a question

WATTS THE SPOT
Project

WATTS THE SPOT

NSF-funded battery engineering • 100+ students activated

LET CURIOSITY LEAD
MOVEMENT

LET CURIOSITY LEAD

Making curiosity a civic virtue

SCARAB VASE
Project

SCARAB VASE

From atoms to bits • 115 years to touchable

LOOPBOOK
NEW APP

LOOPBOOK

Tutorial creation made simple

DIGITAL VOICE BOX
Project

DIGITAL VOICE BOX

200+ students exploring if humans are robots

C
NEW FONT

Contraption

Typography assembled, not drawn