Discover Quantum
Explore the tiny world of particles, where things can be in two places at once. Discover principles of quantum mechanics and quantum computing through hands-on activities.
Discover Your Skin: Health and Protection
Join us for an engaging presentation on skin health and protection. Enjoy interactive games and win prizes while learning how to keep your skin healthy.
Disease Detectives
Practice your detective skills using clues to solve an outbreak while learning all about Epidemiology and the field of Public Health.
DIY Cantilevers with Clock Knot
Join Landmarks at the site of Clock Knot to learn about the ways in which Mark di Suvero incorporated structural engineering in his artwork and make your own mini sculpture to take home!
DIY Hex Bugs
Explore circuits by creating your own breadboard hex bug. Wire it up and watch it wiggle.
DIY Lava Lamps
Create a homemade, fizzling lava lamp using the power of water, vegetable oil, fizzy tablets, and of course, density. Explore how lava lamps are made and how they work.
Don't Sink the Titanic
Design, create and test a boat made out of aluminum foil to see how many objects it can hold before sinking.
Driving Human Progress with Technology: Design your own circuit, egg drop, and laptop
Check out our marble maze circuit design, learn how we use sustainable materials in our designs as you create your own egg drop, and color your own laptop screensaver.
Egg Drop Challenge
Will your egg survive the drop? Use straws, tape, and construction paper to construct a contraption to safely land an egg.
Electroplating Charms
Create and personalize your own electroplated metal charm. Learn how electrical current can transfer and deposit one metal onto another.
Emulsification Station
Did you know that oil comes out of the ground mixed with water, gas, and other chemicals? Join in an experiment to explore how tricky separating these fluids is when you create an emulsion.
Energize Your Future with Wind
Learn about how the offshore wind business is helping customers reduce their emissions by providing more renewable and low-carbon energy. See how turbines are made by creating your own.
Engineering & Making Lab
Be an engineer and improve the world around us by doing things you already know how to do. Test buildings for the future and learn about material sciences you could one day use in your own research.
Enzyme in Action: Digging into Digestion
Explore how our bodies breaks down fat. Use enzymes and changes in color to see digestion in action with us.
Error Correction Through Oddness
How does data get to your phone even when some bits are destroyed? Find out and correct data yourself using parity codes. Pair up, design your own codes and test them.
Everyday Ergonomics
Learn about ergonomics and its everyday impact on how you live and get things done. Once you know about it, it will really get you thinking!
Explore the Sun: Solar Telescope Viewing and Q&A with Astronomers
View sunspots and solar prominences through Dobsonian and Hydrogen Alpha telescopes. Open to all, with astronomers ready to answer your questions about our closest star.
Exploring 3D Landscapes across the Solar System
Explore 3D scale models of landscapes from Earth, Mars, and across the Solar System. Test your spatial geometry and pattern recognition skills by trying to match the 3D models with 2D images.
Exploring Telescopes and the Sky
Join us to learn how telescopes work with hands-on demonstrations by astronomers. Safely observe the sun or local landmarks, weather permitting.
Extract Strawberry DNA
Practice your science skills by performing your own DNA extraction on a strawberry.
Extracting DNA from Strawberries
DNA is the genetic code that controls everything that happens in our cells. Come learn about DNA and extract the DNA from a strawberry.
Fill Your Own Prescription
Step into the life of a pharmacist and fill a prescription from start to finish. Take home a personalized prescription bottle with a sweet treat inside.
Fireworks in a Glass
Explore the idea of miscibility as we discover why it is that some liquids do not mix when they are added together and others do. See how colored oil dropped in water forms dazzling "fireworks".
Fizzy Paint Science
Create fizzy art by applying vinegar t. baking soda on watercolor paper. The acid-base reaction creates bubbles and colors, demonstrating chemical reactions and fizzy art in a and creative way!
Flight Test Zone
Create your own paper airplane and see it fly in our Flight Test Station wind tunnel. Test your design, watch it fly, and learn how air makes it lift and glide.