Workshop Topics 

 

LIFE SCIENCES

BUGS – Explore the world’s most abundant animals. Learn their role in the ecosystem and how they defend themselves.

SEEKING OUR SENSES – Learn to be a “sense-ative” person! Test your vision with our mindboggling illusions. Test your taster and learn what your nose knows.

DINOSAURS – Discover what Dinosaurs were, what they ate and where they went. Learn about excavating and recovering fossils. Even make your own tooth cast.

MISSION NUTRITION Learn about nutrition and fitness while focusing on a healthy diet and lifestyle. Stimulate enthusiasm for personal health and cultivate a healthy attitude toward nutrition and fitness. Take home a Mad Science Step-o-Meter, a real pedometer!

 

EARTH SCIENCES

 

MINERAL MANIA - Peek beneath its crust and uncover what it is made of. Pan for gems which you get to take home.

WALLOPING WEATHER – Enjoy hands-on exploration of the science of meteorology. Discover how hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms form.  Take home your own UV Sun Beads.

BLACK AND BLUE OCEANS – Discover what damage that icky, sticky oil can cause when it accidentally enters our environment. Learn how to clean it up.

PLANETS AND MOONS Explore our solar system and create a lunar eclipse.

SPACE PHENOMENA Probe the mysteries of meteors and comets and make your own comet to take-home.

EARTHWORKS – Become geologists in training as they learn more about the science of the Earth.  Make your own sedimentary stacker to take home.

 

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

 

pH pHactor Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases.

LAB WORKS - Learn to manipulate laboratory equipment at your personal lab bench and get your own graduated cylinder to take home.

KITCHEN CHEMISTRY – Use chemicals found in your kitchen and search for starch, sugar and fats in foods. Become a kitchen chemist with the things you will learn.

MATTER OF FACT – Investigate the ingredients of the universe. Test for chemical or physical changes and use our secret formula to make silly putty to take home.

CHE-MYSTERY – Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences. Grow your own crystal garden and make a “chemical” soda pop.

MIX IT UP – Learn about the states of matter, homogeneous vs. heterogeneous mixtures, solutions, suspensions and much more.

WHERE’S THE AIR? - Interact with the principles of air pressure and apply your new knowledge while experimenting with your own flying device.

ELECTRICITY – Discover the positives and negatives of the circuit circus. Create your own electronic game. Take a tour on the electron freeway.

MAD MACHINES – Learn about and try out different types of simple machines to find out how these simple machines can make our life easier. Make your own catapult to take home.

ENERGY BURST Discover the difference between potential and kinetic energy and the simple principles behind the energy of motion using toys.

CHEM IN FLASH Perform instantaneous experiments in this class on split-second reactions and take-home your very own flask.

JUNIOR REACTORS Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results.

 

OTHER TOPICS

 

DRY ICE – Build a giant bubbling potion. Carbonate plain drinking water and create the same awesome smoke illusions used in the movies.

MOVIE EFFECTS – Take a turn in the director’s chair and find out how physics and chemistry are involved in movie making.

DISCOVERY DETECTION Uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis and take your own “fingerprint finder” home.

CRIME LAB - Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Make your own “Spynoculars to take-home.

Coming Soon:

“FUN”-DAMENTAL FORCES – Experience the awesome forces of gravity, inertia and centripetal force and build some cool devices to watch them work.