2017 WORKSHOPS
SOIL: it's not just dirt!
Explore the hidden world beneath your feet: SOIL! What creatures live in the soil, what do they need, and how can we figure that out?
LED-y Bugs
Learn the basics of circuitry through designing, wiring, and soldering your own LED creatures and take home your creations!
Bring animations and games to life using Scratch!
Be a computer programmer! Create a card or code your own game.
Small Fish, Big Questions: Animal Behavior with Guppies
Do fish have personalities? Come to Small Fish, Big Questions and find out!
You're electric, baby!
Tickle a cockroach's foot and record activity from your own muscles to discover how the brain controls the body!
Operation Design and Build
Learn the basics of architecture through designing your own one-bedroom apartment. Design and construction are totally up to you!
Cook with Renewables
Learn the concept of heat transfer and the importance of renewable energy.
Making with Minions
A Maker is an inventor, creator, builder, designer, or producer. Design your own software and circuits!
Magnetism and Materials
Explore the effects of an invisible force field, and make your own!
Brain Power
Learn about the power you hold in your brain, how we measure it and how we may use our brain's power in new and therapeutic ways!
Too basic? pHind out!
Create and experiment with pH test strips while learning how a woman used this process to invent a breakthrough medical treatment.
Liquid [fu]N2
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-321 degrees is when the fun starts to heat up, when cooking is freezing and phase changes lead to epic smashing.
Chatbots in Python
Create your own chatbot (a robot that can hold intelligent conversations) while learning to code in Python!
Superworms and Supermodels
Bugged by math? Well, it doesn't have to be a pest any longer. Learn side by side with superworms to see how scientists use insects as models for large scale problem solving.