Lighting a Brighter Future
Join Austin Energy for an electrifying virtual reality experience and learn more about electrical distribution with your own hands-on electrical project.
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.
Lyla in the Loop: Loopy Bracelets
Using different colored beads, create a bracelet that performs a looping function - it can be a pattern, a math equation, dance steps, or a computer code.
Magic Piano and Paper Circuits
Create music and light up your drawings! With Makey Makey Piano, turn anything into a musical instrument and spark creativity, one note at a time. Use paper circuits to illuminate your illustrations.
Magical Sand Lab: The Science of Kinetic Sand
Sifting sand. Playing with Play-Doh. Mix it up! Learn about mixtures and chemistry by making your own kinetic sand.
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.
Maker-HER-Space: Button Making & Laser Cut Keychains
Join us to make you own button and laser cut keychain. Watch our 3D printer at work and learn how ideas become reality.
Making Sense of Science Laws
Explore Boyle's Law, the fire triangle, and basic electronic skills with hands-on STEM experiments and challenges.
Marble Rollercoaster
Let's roll! Design and construct your own rockin' roller coaster and demonstrate the laws of physics like velocity, acceleration and kinetic and potential energy.
Masterpieces in Minutes: AI Image Workshop
Unleash your creativity and design imaginative STEM images. Explore AI design, edit prompts, and bring wild ideas to life with AI-powered tools.
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.
Metallurgy Magic: Powering up with Aluminum Foil
Learn from a team of researchers about how common metallurgy practices and aluminum foils can be used to build batteries. After a demonstration, create and test your own lemon battery.
Mission: Materials Science
Explore the amazing world of material properties with magnificent memory wire, ferrofluid, UV reactive bracelets, and more!
Mystical Potions & Science Notions: The Magic of Chemistry
Welcome to your first Potions class! Watch as elixirs change color, fire is summoned, foam erupts, & thunderclouds form in this enchanting display of chemistry. Show Schedule: 45 minute shows repeated at 11:30 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 3:15 p.m.
Nuclear Cleanup Quest: Slime Simulation
Join nuclear engineering students in creating slime representing nuclear waste, exploring cleanup techniques, simulating real-world nuclear waste management, and learning about safe disposal methods.
Organ Systems Exploration
Hands-on anatomy tour of the lungs, heart, and brain. Compare healthy with smokers' lungs, and learn about the heart chambers and the brain. Color, label, and take home a diagram of each.
Origami in STEM
We are not quite ready for a paperless society, because there are so many cool things you can make with paper! Join us as we reshape, transform, cut down and take flight.
Paper Circuits: Make Electrifying Cards
Mix electronics and art with your own light-up paper circuit design. Many materials can be substituted as "wire," including special copper tape. Test it out and find out how.
Paper Plane Path Prediction Party
Design, test, and fly paper planes while exploring how computers use math and physics to predict their flight paths. Learn how to turn real-world experiments into understanding using computer simulations.
Patient Puzzle: Detect like a Doctor
Work with your peers to figure out the symptoms of a patient. Discover how to take blood pressure and check for pulse.
Pedals, Pedestrians & Power Wheels: A Roundabout Adventure
Navigate a roundabout as a driver, cyclist, or pedestrian! Learn about traffic safety, explore intersection design, and discover inspiring women in transportation.
Permeability: Movement of Water through Soil
Explore the science and engineering of permeability. Use plastic cups filled with layers of different materials and pour water into them to explore and learn how water moves through different soils.