- Starlab
Travel the solar system to meet your planetary neighbors as you journey to exotic worlds and strange moons in an inflatable planetarium!
- Gloss Chemistry
In this session, we will explore the differences between acids and bases as well as conduct a scientific experiment on various everyday household liquids to determine which category they fall into.
- WiSTEM
Be Kim Possible and decode secret messages to save the day! Look deep into the eye of a cow or pig heart to investigate how it works. Explore the wonders of Chemistry with fascinating chemical experiments. Practice "tricks" and learn about the physics behind them!
- Rockets
In this workshop, audiences create an air rocket that launches across the room, and engineer a way for a payload to return safely to Earth. This hands-on workshop explores the science behind rockets and space exploration. Use your imagination to plan, build, and test your own design.
- Engineering/Erosion
This program challenges students to address the issues of local coastal erosion through the engineering design process, with an emphasis on communication and collaboration. Students work as teams employing engineering design to plan, test, and present their solutions to limit the erosion of sand from their own section of simulated sandy coastline.
- Tidepool
Tidepool Adaptations features live local animals such as sea stars, hermit crabs, snails, clams, mussels, spider crabs, moon snails, and rock crabs. Students will learn about three different New England tide pool habitats and the adaptations animals have to live in them. Students will explore live animals in models of these habitats. The program ends with a discussion of the adaptations observed by students.
- Sound
Plunging a vibrating tuning fork into a bowl of water creates quite a spray as students learn that sound is vibration. Students actively engage in exploring sound, creating unique sound makers with household materials.
- Earth Science
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral? How do rocks and minerals form? Handle several large specimens representing the three basic rock types. Grow your own crystals and make a sedimentation chamber.