Instant Challenge 5 Minute Building Competition
Destination Imagination is a competitive problem solving competition for teams from 2-7 people.Come participate in a 5-minute action packed instant challenge and see how high your team's score can go.
Intelligent Hydrogel that Feels the Heat
Make your own jelly-like temperature-responsive hydrogel that changes its size when it feels hot or cold.
Into the Unknown: Discover the Arctic Ocean in a Glass
Join us for a spectacular event where aspiring Ice Queens can indulge in hands-on experiments that unveil the mysteries and wonders of the Arctic Ocean.
Intro to Neuroscience
Explore neuroscience with images, artifacts, and trivia questions. Check out models of the brain and common tools used in neurology such as pen lights, reflex hammers, and tuning forks.
Kidbots
Write and debug a set of instructions that will be acted out by a kid robot the way a computer executes a piece of code. Be a Developer, Tester, and Bot!
Lab Safety @ the Slime Lab
Let's make slime! In order to make slime, we will don our personal protective equipment (PPE), complete a safety checklist and review safety data sheets (SDSs) to perform the slime experiment safely.
- Slime Lab sessions will run every 20 minutes beginning at 11:30 a.m. The last session will be at 3:20 p.m.
- Sessions start times: 11:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:20 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 1:20 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 3:20 p.m.
Learn Science with Science Cheerleaders
Meet the Science Cheerleaders, current and former NFL, NBA, and college cheerleaders with STEM careers. Learn about their STEM careers and cheer backgrounds while getting crafty with science.
Lego NXT Robot Cars
Where does your robot car want to go? Code a LEGO NXT robot car to follow a track around the room.
Lights! Circuits! Puppets!
Explore the difference between series and parallel circuits as you design and construct a light up animal hand puppet with glowing LEDs.
Lights, Camera, Brains
Tour and experience a mock MRI scanner and compare human brain scans with real animal brains. Join in neuroscience activities and coloring. Tours meet at the SEA building entrance at the northwest corner of Dean Keeton and Speedway.
Magic Piano and Paper Circuits
Make music and turn drawings into glowing creations. Turn anything into music with Makey Makey Piano - unleash creativity, one note at a time. Craft magic with light with paper circuits.
Magical Money and Mysterious Messages
Dive into the science of shiny pennies and invisible ink. Transform ordinary coins into gleaming copper and explore the art of crafting messages that vanish into thin air through a lesson in chemistry
Make a Mini-Eclipse
Construct a scale model of the Earth and Moon, then see how they are going to align with the Sun to bring us a total solar eclipse on April 8. No special glasses are required for your mini-eclipse!
Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Slime
Make your own eco-friendly slime and learn about reducing plastic waste.
Make Your Own Flying Rocket
Create and decorate your own rocket that flies. Blast off and exercise your imagination while learning about the field of aerospace engineering.
Make Your Own Gummy: Gummies as Materials and Medicines
Make your own gummies. Explore the materials and properties of making gummies and learn how they can be used in medicine.
Materials Exploration from Large to Atomic Scale using Electron Microscopes
Explore the world of atoms, molecules and crystals through interactive hands-on activities and demonstrations.
Medical Jeopardy
Play medical jeopardy and explore medical trivia with health professions students.
Mission: Materials Science
Explore the cool world of material properties with levitating magnets, lava lamps, UV bead bracelets and more.
Natural Electricity in the Human Body
Explore three stations to learn how the human body uses electricity to funtion. Build a simple circuit. Color a brain hat. Record electrical signals from your body.
Nature Notes: Journaling Our Natural Spaces
Join us on a guided nature walk to the Turtle Pond. We will create a nature journal to document the plants and animals we see and hear, collecting drawings and specimen as we go.
Nebula Painting
Have you ever wondered where stars come from? Learn about, design, and paint your own nebula.
Nuclear Chain Reaction: Ping Pong Mousetrap Mania
Join nuclear engineering students to explore the intricacies of a nuclear fission chain reaction in a mouse trap mania demonstration and to learn about what nuclear is all about.
Office of Admissions Information Table
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Organ Systems Exploration
Hands on anatomy learning with an exhibit on sheep lungs, cow hearts, and pig brains. A related coloring activity will also be available.