Schools Out Programs

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Chemical Curiosities

Mix up potions and experiment with all kinds of chemical reactions! Combine chemicals to create exothermic reactions, examine our non-Newtonian fluid, make your own sidewalk chalk and crystal gardens to take home!

Creative Chemists - Building with Bonds

Become a creative chemist through the investigation of the periodic table and the atoms that make up everything around us! Make chemical connections between different atomic models using bonds to construct molecules. Whether it is long stretchy chains of molecules in the form of silly putty or structured atoms in the form of crystal gardens, find out how chemistry connects the world.

Detective Science

Help solve the Bustertown Bake-Off Mystery! We’ve been asked to help the police investigate the scene of the “crime;” we’ll dust for fingerprints, examine clues, analyze different powders and interview witnesses. Help figure out whodunit!

Earth's Amazing Wonders

Calling all Junior Geologists! Unearth the rock cycle and discover the difference between sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Replicate rumbling earthquakes and explosive volcanoes, pan for gems, and create a sedimentary stacker to take home!

Energy and Motion

Forces are FUNdamental! Explore the energy of motion (potential versus kinetic energy) while tinkering with things that boink, pop, float, swing, and roll!

Junior Naturalists

Beaks, bites, talons & claws! Owl pellets, camouflage and critters’ paws! Examine all these and more in our nature discovery workshop!

Jr. Physicians - The Lung and the Breathless

Take a trip through the Respiratory System from the nose to the lungs. Find out how\nimportant mucus is to the human body’s defense and make some Mad Mucus to \ntake home. Create model inflatable lungs while exploring how oxygen circulates \nthrough the body. From the lungs to the heart, see how these different organs work \ntogether to make your body tick

Laser and Optics

Become immersed in the world of lasers, light, and color! Discover how laser light differs from white light as we bend & shine beams of light all around the room and dissect white light with our special specs! Witness a small indoor fireworks display to show how different metals react to heat, and learn about tricks our eyes play on us by experimenting with mirrors and optical illusions!

LEGO - BRIXology - CARNIVALS

Explore the science and engineering that lets humans design and build exciting rides at carnivals and amusement parks. Through the engineering design process become mechanical engineers solving problems with creative solutions. Construct a miniature swinging viking ship ride to take home.

LEGO- BRIXology – CREATURES

Explore the science and engineering that lets humans invent new things based on solutions found in nature! Through the engineering design process become bioengineers solving problems with biomimicry. Put together a wind-up peacock puzzle that can move to take home!

Mad Machines

Discover simple machines! Unravel the power of pulleys, build catapults and claw grabber devices! We’ll compile all that we’ve learned & build our own Mad Science Drag Racers to race and take home!

NASA – STEM Explorers Launch Up, Touch Down

Defy gravity by learning how rockets blast off into space while also making your own miniature customized rocket. Once soaring at speeds high above the sky, help a small astronaut make a soft landing on a distant planet. The small astronaut is on a big mission, so he needs you to also land his rover. Take home all of your landing systems as well as your resourceful rocket.

NASA – STEM Explorers - Space Tech Specs

Perplexing problems require stellar solutions. From robotic arms aboard the International Space Station that need to be the correct size, to heat shields that require designs to protect sensitive software. It is up to you to help solve these problems through an interactive engineering process. Make and take home imaginative models to these space challenges.

Rocketry

Here is your chance to be a rocket scientist! Investigate the four forces of flight as you race through space learning the basics of rocket travel. Build your own Mad Science rocket to take home. If we have fair skies, we’ll even see the principles of propulsion at work with a real rocket launch!

Shake it Up!

Immerse yourself in the world of acids and bases, solutions and solubility, and lots of crazy chemical reactions! We’ll make corks pop, mix up a “magic muffin,” dissolve Styrofoam, create crystal gardens and even experiment with shaving cream marbling!

Shocking Science

Shocking fun awaits! Join us while we build simple circuits, make buzzers buzz, test our nerves, tinker with electromagnets, and even see a Van de Graaff generator create indoor lightning!

Slimy Science & Smokey Ice

Build model molecules, copper-plate a nickel, and make your very own ooey gooey Mad Science slime and putty to take home! Witness fantastic dry ice demonstrations with smoking & bubbling flasks!