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STEM - Engineering | Building with Gumdrops
2026-12-19 14:00:00 2026-12-19 15:00:00 America/New_York STEM - Engineering | Building with Gumdrops Test your engineering skills by seeing what you can build with gumdrops and toothpicks! Suwanee Branch - Suwanee Meeting Room

Saturday, December 19
2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Suwanee Meeting Room

Test your engineering skills by seeing what you can build with gumdrops and toothpicks!

Gumdrops aren’t just decorations for gingerbread houses - in this program, participants will use gumdrops and toothpicks to test the structural limits of what they can build!

AGE GROUP: | Ages 6-11 | Ages 12 - 15 |

EVENT TYPE: | STEM - Engineering |

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