Workshop Offerings
2024
Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
Step back in time as you become an Archaeologist and explore the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt. Excavate a mummy from a pyramid and keep the treasures inside. Learn about the importance of ancient Egyptian culture,
create your own Ankh, and explore fossils and art. Dig into the fun of exploring Ancient Egypt!
Arcade Electronics & Game-atorium
Do you like to play games? How about working with electronics, cards, and dice to create and play your own games? Then this workshop is for you! Work with electronics kits to program a spinning light to display different
sayings, play games, and make different sounds. Play group games, card games, board games, and make your very own original board, dice, or card game.
Build-A-Thon
This workshop is all about building. Learn the basics of the Engineering Design Process by using your own building kit to keep at the end of the week. Use our build kits to create new constructions and challenges each day. Invent and construct your own design using cardboard and other materials while learning to use basic tools.
Chemistry Creations
Become a chemist and a creator as you discover hands-on science fun! You will explore the world of Chemistry while creating fun things to take home each day. Learn about matter, chemicals, and reactions; watch demonstrations and create your own experiments; and use the Scientific Method to make some science fun!
Color & Light Odyssey
Dive into the fascinating world of physics, color and visible light through hands-on experiments and art. Explore how materials interact with light; create mesmerizing shadows, reflections and refractions; and use paint and other mediums to investigate color. Join the Odyssey to unleash your inner scientist and artist!
Creative Engineering: Imagination & Exploration
Ready to use your imagination to design, build, and play? Join us and become a Creative Engineer! Work with a 3-D construction kit that is yours to keep at the end of the week. Design and build simple or complex models of vehicles, robots,creatures, and buildings. Use our Build Kits to create as YOU want to. Build the fun into your creations either from directions or your own imagination.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
A crime has been committed - will you be the Science Sleuth to solve it? Have fun learning about forensics,observation, and crime lab chemistry while you perform different experiments. Search for evidence, gather clues, and discover how you can use science to solve a mystery. Use your science skills to have fun solving the crime of the century!
Dino Dig Fossil Hunt
Explore ideas and methods of Archeology, Paleontology, and Geology and excavate the simulated bones of a model dinosaur! Assemble the fossil from your own dig to complete a 3-dimensional model of a dinosaur to take home. Investigate geologic time and fossil charts to compare living things then and now, and identify 20-million-year-oldshark teeth and other fossils. See, hold, and identify items from our rock and mineral collections, and design your very own dinosaurs based on what we observe from our exploration.
Electrifying Fun!
Learning about electronics is a snap using our safe, kid-friendly electronics kits. Use our electronic kits to have fun transforming electrical energy into light, motion, and sound. Build a musical doorbell, burglar alarm, or even a radio! This is a perfect program for emerging engineers, allows plenty of time for tinkering, and discussions, and includes your own kit to take home so you can continue the fun.
Mega Cyborg Hand
Learn about engineering, robotics, and the power of water and pressure by building your own working giant hydraulic cyborg hand. Each day builds on the prior day's work, using the Engineering Design Process to create awearable hydraulic hand. Put it on to become a temporary cyborg!
Robotics
We offer several customizable robotics workshops to reach a broad range of ages and interests. If you are interested in reviewing our complete Robotics or Electronics workshops, please contact us directly.
Rube Goldberg Machines
A Rube Goldberg Machine is a series of chain reactions that make a simple task difficult and often humorous. This workshop presents six simple machines: lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, and screw. Using these simple machines, children design and build a working Rube Goldberg Machine to complete a simple task in the most complicated and silly way possible.
Slimescapades!
Get ready to get slimy with this super slime-tastic chemistry workshop! Make a new slime every day, do experiments to create polymers and other materials, and have a blast with chemical reactions. Come join the messy, slimy side of science fun!
13-in-1 Solar Robot
In this workshop we explore the basics of robotics, electricity, and solar energy using your very own 13-in-1 solar robot kit to take home at the end of the week. Learn how to build a gear, use a basic motor, and create robots with different forms and functions. Use our free build and robotics kits to create your own designs. Come join us for somerobot fun!
Space Robot: Mission To Mars
Let imagination take flight with this innovative, solar-powered workshop that explores Mars, our Solar System, and space travel! Mission Specialists use their very own Solar Space Fleet kit to create different moving models that usethree different interchangeable energy sources: solar energy, rechargeable battery, or battery pack. View 3-D images of Mars' surface, launch paper rockets, and fly a demo of the Ingenuity helicopter. Time to blast off for fun!
Up, Up, & Away!
This workshop explores things that are used to move through the air, like airplanes, bridges, rockets, andhelicopters. Build your own rubber band-powered model airplane, solar powered helicopters, and paper rockets. Learn simple engineering skills about aviation and bridge-building, then use your skills to build a bridge and try-out our flying drones. It's time to fly away with fun!
Volcano Tour
Enjoy an explosively fun exploration of geology, physics and chemistry as you become a Junior Volcanologist! Build your own working volcano and see examples of huge volcanic eruptions. Learn about, excavate, and sort minerals and fossils to keep, and recreate the forces and chemistry at work in the fascinating world of volcanoes.
Wonderful Wizardry of Science
Join in the escapades of your favorite magical characters while discovering the magic of science in this fun, chemistry-based workshop. Make edible wands, brew fantastic potions, and create "magical” chemical reactions. Watch a mirage mysteriously appear, experiment with color and light, and see who knows the most fun facts aboutWizarding. Are you a Science Wizard? Come and find out!
Customizable Workshops
We can modify any workshop to fit shorter or longer durations, to meet the needs of older or younger groups, and modify workshops to align with and support specific in-school activities. Give us a call or drop us an email with your needs and we will see what we can do for you.
*Coming Soon*
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Bubbles Bonanza
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Ecology Explorer
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Oceans Ahoy
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Racecars & Rockets