 At the age of 10, Kahn staged his first exhibition of sculptures fashioned from items salvaged from a junkyard, where his mother had taken him.After graduating with a degree in botany and environmental science from the University of Connecticut, Kahn moved to San Francisco, where he was fascinated by the Exploratorium.Eventually, he was hired and worked there from 1982 to 1996 under the tutelage of the museum's founder, Frank Oppenheimer.