2018 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!
Game On
Be a computer programmer! Code your own game using Scratch.
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!
Optimizing Fun
Plan and design your own theme park or playground!
Hot N Cold
Use chemical reactions to make ice cream and eruptions!
Magnetism and Materials
Explore the effects of an invisible force field, and make your own!
Brain Power
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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.
Binary Bracelets
Learn how computers process information and use what you learned to encode messages into jewelry!
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.