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| Che-mystery |
Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you explore chemical reactions, grow a crazy crystal garden and make your own “chemical” soda pop! |
| Chem in a Flash |
Take a trip through Chemical Reactions and learn how to control them. Experiment with oxidation, crystalization, quick-acting reactions such as precipitation and acid-base reactions, test limiting reagents, and a color-changing electrolysis demonstration. |
| Current Events |
It’s electric! Find out how electricity in our homes works by building a circuit and testing conductivity. See how our own bodies can conduct and find out why fuses are fun by blowing one up! |
| Dry Ice Capades |
Probe the shifting states of matter; observe melted and resolidified metal, use Dry Ice to explore properties of matter at extreme temperatures; test volumetric differences between solids and gases. |
| Electricity |
This workshop introduces the students to the fundamental concepts of electricity. Students, through hands-on activities, gain a better understanding of electrical circuits and the basic elements of electricity. |
| Energy Burst |
Explore the energy of motion by racing rubber-band dragsters and launching rubber-band catapults in teams. See how turning potential energy into kinetic energy can even make a cool trick to play on your friends. |
| Fun-damental Forces |
Experiment with gravity, inertia and centripetal force. We’ll build amazing devices to see these awesome forces at work. |
| Glow Show |
How do we perceive colors? Find out using a tri-color experiment. Illuminate fluorescence and phosphorescence in common objects, including in money for security. |
| Great Gravity |
We need it to ride bicycles, play games, and even to just sit or stand still. One of nature's most powerful law but usually taken for granted... not anymore! Learn to appreciate and understand the wonders of gravity in this lesson! |
| Harnessing Heat |
The class will learn and observe the basic properties of heat by play-acting the role of atoms, then heat things up in a sand-shaking session. The children will take part in a sense-confusing temperature test, experiment with heat transfers, and get hands-on building thermometers. |
| Junior Reactors |
Demonstration of physical and chemical reactions followed by hands-on experiments to understand the size of atoms, a creative molecular session, explore how atoms join together and how molecules react |
| Kitchen Chemistry |
Take a hands-on look at the chemistry that goes on in your kitchen. Hunt for starch, sugar and fats in foods and investigate a living organism that helps bread rise. Discover how the sun can help turn chemical reactions into a tasty snack and build your own mini solar cooker to take home. |
| Lab Works |
Students learn to manipulate an assortment of lab equipment through hands-on activities. They will learn to proper lab techniques including liquids transfer and how to swirl with an Erlenmeyer flask. |
| Lights, Color, Action |
What do fireworks and astronomy have in common? Light! Explore the color spectrum with prisms and diffraction glasses, blend colors to produce white light and split white light into colors. See how pigments blend differently from light, and how they are combined to produce colors. |
| Magnetic Magic |
Students will examine magnets up-close and at work, observing their behavior and their uses. Students will be involved in activities which will let them see and explore the relative strength and properties of magnetic fields. Students are introduced to and build their own electromagnet. |
| Moving Motion |
Get a move on--and explore the forces behind motion! See how friction, gravity, and inertia make everything from racecars to jet planes to kickballs move. Perform some amazing experiments and take home mini-versions of your own. |
| MS Machines |
Find out how simple machines make our lives easier. Try out different types of simple machines levers, wedges, incline planes, wheels and axles, and pulleys. Assemble a catapult, investigate how inclined planes work and discover how a simple wedge can be a powerful tool. Rig a pulley system and build a Mad Science rocket racer to take home. |
| pH Phactor |
Students explore the crazy chemistry of acids and bases and pH Phactors hydrogen and hydroxide. Apply the Phantastic pH test to common household chemicals. Bring a mystery liquid to a perfect pH balance. The Phestival ends with a Stopper-Popper reaction! |
| Playing with Polymers |
Dissolve Styrofoam with a mystery chemical and make your very own slime to take home and experiment with. |
| Science of Toys |
Did you know that some of your favorite toys work using basic science principles? Use bouncing balls, yo-yos and other classic toys to discover the science of motion through fun hands-on activities. |
| Slime Time |
Students will learn about slime and its basic ingredients in a series of hands-on activities. Use polymer paper clips and cross-linking magnetic marbles to examine the properties of slime. Stir up multiple concoctions and test them in the Slime Olympics. |
| Super Sticky Stuff |
Examine the workings of Velcro hook-and-loop fasteners, tape adhesives, wet glues. Rank strengths, determine the optimal glue for a material, test concepts of suction, hydrogen bonding, and static cling. |
| Super Structures |
Can we build it? Using triangles, cylinders and arches we can! Learn how combinations of these shapes make for sturdy homes and skyscrapers! Build a bridge, a skyscraper, and take down a teetering tower of blocks by studying tension! |
| Under Pressure |
Find out why “thin air” is actually one tough cookie! Use air pressure to create vortex pockets with a punch, lift a model boat off the ocean, and levitate ping-pong balls in defiance of gravity! |
| Watts-Up |
Basic properties of static electricity are demonstrated in a series of experiments which lay the foundation for both an explanation and demonstration of lightning formation. Using a Van de Graaff, the instructor will demonstrate the ability of an electric field to light up a fluorescent tube, the process of grounding, and how to make a feather fly! To top it off, we will take volunteers with a good hair day and turn it into a bad hair day! |
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