Instant Challenge 5 Minute Building Competition

Hosting Organization: Destination Imagination
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Location: PMA 5th Floor Lounge Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: CPE 2.212
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Location: PMA 5.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Hosting Organization: Apple
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Auditorium PreFunction Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

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

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Location: ECJ 1.214
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Hosting Organization: Science Cheerleaders
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: EER 0.708
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Where does your robot car want to go? Code a LEGO NXT robot car to follow a track around the room.

Lights! Circuits! Puppets!

Hosting Organization: Cadence Design Systems
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Location: EER 1.504
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: SEA 1st Floor Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: ECJ 1.202
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Hosting Organization: Austin PBS
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Location: CPE 2.204
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

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

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Make your own eco-friendly slime and learn about reducing plastic waste.

Make Your Own Flying Rocket

Location: ASE 1.112 Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

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

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Location: PMA 5.116
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

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

Location: EER 0.756, TMI Microscopy Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the world of atoms, molecules and crystals through interactive hands-on activities and demonstrations.

Medical Jeopardy

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Location: PMA 5.120
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Play medical jeopardy and explore medical trivia with health professions students.

Mission: Materials Science

Location: EER 1.816/1.818
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore the cool world of material properties with levitating magnets, lava lamps, UV bead bracelets and more.

Natural Electricity in the Human Body

Hosting Organization: Santacruz Lab at UT Austin
Location: EER 1.518
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: WEL Plaza, Inner Campus Drive (West)
Rain Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: WEL 2.128
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2

Have you ever wondered where stars come from? Learn about, design, and paint your own nebula.

Nuclear Chain Reaction: Ping Pong Mousetrap Mania

Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Hosting Organization: Office of Admissions at UT Austin
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 7, Grade 8

The University of Texas at Austin is a top-tier university in the state, country and world. Visit us for information on what makes UT Austin a unique learning environment.
 

Organ Systems Exploration

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Location: ETC 2.132
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Hands on anatomy learning with an exhibit on sheep lungs, cow hearts, and pig brains. A related coloring activity will also be available.