After School Program Descriptions
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System 2:
Watts-Up
Learn about electricity, its properties and its role in natural phenomena. Make indoor lightning while conducting hair-raising experiments with our electro-static generator...
Magnetic Magic
Investigate the powers and daily uses of magnets. Test for electro magnetic fields and then use what you have learned to build your own electro magnet...
Optical Illusions
Build your own periscope while learning about optics, reflection and sight. Watch celebrity images change before your very eyes! Seeing is not always believing…
Lights ... Color... Action!
Uncover the hidden components in ordinary light and build your own Newton's color wheel to prove it. Attend a spectacular chemical energy display!
Mission Nutrition
Discover the value of food groups, portioning your food and living a healthy lifestyle! Receive your very own step-o-meter!
Discover sound, sound waves and the way household items can be used to create amazing movie effects. Create amazing sounds using a hanger!
Tantalizing Taste
Experiment with taste sensations while "mapping" out your tongue. Use candy testing to compare your sense of smell and taste and take the Mad Science taste challenge.
Harnessing Heat
Witness a mini rocket launch while learning the properties of heat. Change the states of matter, turn solid candy into floss and make your very own cotton candy that you can eat!
System 3:
Under Pressure
Join Bernoulli and Newton as we take this exciting look at the science behind aerodynamics and the properties of air... under pressure. Use a vortex generator to create air pockets with a punch, and levitate ping-pong balls in defiance of gravity!
Che-mystery
Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you make your super ball and create some amazing Magic Mud!
”Current” Events
Take a tour on the electron freeway! Conductors, insulators, transistors, and other elements in the world of circuit electricity introduce themselves to you via the tingle in your fingertips and the twinkle in your eye…
“Fun”- damental Forces
Gravity... Inertia... Centripetal force... who could ever imagine that an introduction to physics could be so much fun? We’ll experience these awesome forces for ourselves and build some cool devices to watch them at work!
Wacky Waves
Create your own multi-density wave bottles while learning about water, waves and the environment. Simulate the effects of an ocean oil spill and develop creative techniques to clean it up!
Science of Magic
Magic? No… It’s science! You’ll learn the secrets behind famous magic that you can recreate for yourself! Mother nature has some tricks of her own, and we’d like to show you what’s up her sleeve!
Stunt Planes & Gliders
The Wright Brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build a “football” glider, control surfaces and your very own loop-flying stunt plane. You’ll be a Top Gun after this class!
Super Structures
Discover the strengths of triangles, cylinders and arches. Learn how combinations of these shapes make for sturdy homes and skyscrapers! Use teamwork to build your own super structures as well as an earthquake-proof building!
System 4:
Bugs!
Students will explore the world's most abundant animal! Insect defenses and their role in our ecosystems will be explored in fun, hands-on activities that introduce children to these fascinating creatures! Children will use their knowledge of insects to make their very own bug model to take home.
Detective Science
Discover how science is used to solve real crimes! Watch as the classroom is transformed into a crime lab for this exciting exploration of the fundamentals of forensics. Children will even take home their very own Child Identification Kit. It's so much fun, it's criminal!
Earthworks
Take a voyage to the center of the Earth! We'll investigate the powerful processes that shape the planet and form remarkable rocks, magnificent minerals, and glittering gems! Children will take home sedimentary stackers that they made themselves.
Kitchen Chemistry
Cooking is all about chemistry! Students will be introduced to the laboratory that we call a kitchen for a look at some novel and practical applications of science! Children will build their own Solar Cooker and learn how living organisms cause bread to rise. Dinnertime will never be the same!
Mad Science Machines
Watch teams of elementary-age engineers working together with pulleys and levers. Children will have so much fun problem-solving, designing and testing just like real engineers, they’ll forget that they’re learning! Children will take home a cool Mad Science Machine they built themselves!
Movie Effects
Grab your popcorn but don't sit back! We're going to learn first-hand how advances in science and technology are behind our favorite special effects! Children will take home an animator booklet and cool anaglyph glasses at the end of this fun-filled program. 3, 2, 1… Science in Action!
Walloping Weather
Discover how hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms develop, and how powerful they can be! Our junior meteorologists will be making more reliable forecasts than the local news. Just ask students to consult their personal UV detectors to check whether it’s time to cover up!
Science of Toys
Children will discover the science behind some of their favorite toys in this fun-packed program! Children aren’t the only ones with the energy to play, their toys are packed with it, too! This explains yo-yo tricks, the amazing “String Thing,” and much more! Further Physics fun awaits them at home with their new Jacob’s Ladder!
System 5:
Energy Burst!
Explore the energy of motion (potential versus kinetic energy), and how energy can be conserved. Build a rubber band-powered rattlesnake egg to help learn all about energy — and scare your friends.
Science of Art
Get your left and right brains working together and discover the links between science and art. Mix and separate colors, uncover art forgeries, investigate friction. Discover that science is an important part of art, and make you own distorted image to take home.
All About Animals
Feathers, fins, fur and more! Explore the animal kingdom and learn about the habitats, anatomy and life cycles of your favorite creatures. Make your own animal track to take home, experiment with camouflage and explore the amazing — and sometimes strange — sounds that animals make.
Life in the Sea
What is life like under the ocean's surface? What kind of animals and plants are found in the sea? Examine and investigate starfish, sea urchins and shells. Learn about buoyancy and adaptation. Make your own Cartesian diver, and find out what humans must do in order to explore the deep, dark depths of our planet's oceans.
Great Gravity
Children will have the opportunity to learn more about the force of gravity in this class. They will conduct hands on experiments that will provide the opportunity to explore the force of gravity, the center of gravity and even to defy gravity.
Moving Motion
Learn all about the forces behind the movement of planes, trains and automobiles. Students will perform a series of experiments to learn more about friction, inertia, and other forces that affect the way things move. Throughout the class the children will add to their very own take home inertia kit to continue experimenting at home.
Radical Robots (2 classes)
Build your very own robot hand to take home in these two classes that focus on technology. Explore how robots can be used to make our lives easier. Experiment with robots that can do some extraordinary tasks, infrared robots, robotic arms and even soccer playing robots.
NASA:
Space Travel
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a balloon rocket and design your own care engine as you learn about thrust. See the principals of propulsion at work in a real rocket launch, and build your very own Shuttle CopterTM to fly to the skies.
Atmosphere & Beyond
We’re on a mission to explore the atmosphere on Earth, and beyond! Travel to the end for the rainbow and make a sunset! Travel to the end of the rainbow and make a sunset! Mix up various planetary atmospheres, one molecule at a time! Discover how stars would look in space and see what makes stars twinkle using your very own Shimmering StarsTM!
Sun & Stars
This stellar program is your ticket to the stars! Watch star dust burn, and journey through a soapy galaxy as you investigate the lifecycle of stars. Use your Bead DipperTM to create a 3-dimensional glow-in-the dark constellation!
Rocket Science
This is your chance to be a rocket scientist! Investigate the four forces of flight with the help of a Unique Flying Object! Explore the science involved in rocket construction as you build your own Skyblazer II RocketTM that you can take home!
Planets & Moons
Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse in this “mad” planetary tour! Lear how the planets stack up. Build and take home Kepler’s CubeTM , a fun and educational 3-D solar system puzzle!
Space Phenomena
Probe the mysteries of meteors and bounce around satalite light in this phenomenal program on space events! See comets up close as one is formed before your eyes, and take home your very own Catch-a-CometTM!
Living in Space
Experience the life of an astronaut as you suit up for space flight! Use teamwork to complete an important space mission, build a model space station and make your very own Cosmic ChronometerTM watch to measure the time here on Earth!
Space Technology
Discover technology designed for outer space! Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, find hidden mountains using the principals of radar technology and discover everyday objects originally designed for use in space! Take home a Lightning LauncherTM that will light up the sky!
Crazy Chemworks
Lab Works
Use your hands as a real Mad Scientist in this whirlwind class on how a lab works! Learn to manipulate laboratory equipment at your personal lab bench, and take home your very own Graduated Gear to continue your research!
Junior Reactors
Create a tiny world of atoms with your very own set of Atomic Coins! Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results!
pH Phactor
Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases! Explore the pH extremes with your Reaction Tube in what is sure-to-be a popping experience! Discover whether liquids found in your home are acids or bases using your personal pH Paper!
Slime Time
Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter the Slime Olympics! Take home your own concoction of Mad Science Slime!
Chem in a Flash
Hop on board the chemistry express for a high-speed science experience! Perform instantaneous experiments in this fast-paced class on split-second reactions that go like mad! Pick up an Action Flask and have a blast!
The Glow Show
Discover amazing things that glow bright in the dark and come to light! Probe the properties of light and explore some unusual applications of glow-in-the-dark technology! Use your Blacklight Writer to make secret messages that only you can see!
Super Sticky Stuff
Stick it to the walls, and push the power of tape to the limits in this adhesive hour on things that cling! Build a bond with glue and get attached to Professor Beakerdude!
Dry Ice Capades
Manipulate matter in all of its three states! Melt metal in boiling water and freeze water with just a breath of dry ice! Use your Thermo-color Cup to test the temperature of liquid matter in your home!
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