Finger Lakes Paperfolders (FLaP)

Origami in Upstate New York, between Rochester, Syracuse, and Ithaca.

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Some other local paperfolding websites:
Rochester Origami Club Cornell Origami Club EverParadise Anja Paul Daniel George Ben

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FLaP members volunteered at the Hall of Wonders as part of the 2009 Light in Winter festival in Ithaca. See the Cornell Chronicle article.

To complement Robert Lang's presentation on From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes we taught models from his 1997 book Origami in Action : Paper Toys That Fly, Flap, Gobble, and Inflate

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FLaP members with Cornell grad students and USDA employees with backgrounds ranging from chemistry to physics and genetics ran an EYH workshop in 2002 on the topic of Applied Origami.

The Secret is Increasing

How much weight can a piece of paper support? When is a straight line better than a curve? Find out how folding paper into different shapes affects its strength and stability. Learn about other uses for folding in daily life, like airbag folding, deployment of large telescopes in space, and even houses!

You can download a copy of our handout.

FLaP members and Cornell math grad students ran an EYH workshop about symmetry in April 2001.
Participants learned how to make cubes from Sonobe' units. You can download and print the handout we used. You can also visit related links. Local libraries have some related books. This workshop was the subject of a poster presented at the 3rd Origami, Math, Science, and Education conference in March. To see Eileen's pictures, visit the folder at our egroups site.

We met at Triphammer Mall in September '00 at the tables outside the laundromat. Pictures of some of our creations are below.