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Welcome to our Fall and Spring Calendar for 2006-7! 

We have an exciting year ahead with 4 new topics!  Each  topic may have several sessions.  Each session is one hour long.   You can click here to see our calendar by month.  You must register to sign up for a class. Forms can be found on our registration page.  We now accept major credit cards! Call for more information 914-589-4749.

Bubbleology Become a Bubble Scientist! – 3 sessions – Learn all about bubbles and become a bubble scientist.  Find out why soap makes a bubble. See how to make magic bubble solution that lasts forever. Find out what bubbles have in common with trees, honey bees and snowflakes.  See how you can make a pyramid bubble. Learn what the color of a bubble is. Find out how to make your bubble last longer than 5 minutes or how to make a really big bubble. What other kinds of bubble shapes can you make? 

October 2, 9, November 7, 2006 1:30-2:30pm or Saturdays: December 2, 9, 16, 2006 10:30-11:30am

NEW! Science Magic – 2 sessions – Can you boil water in a paper cup? Light up a bulb without wires. Blow up a deflated balloon without untying it. See how you can blow up an 8 foot long balloon with only one breath!   Find out why you don’t fall over on bicycle. Make a water fountain out of a balloon without squeezing it! And more!  Come and learn the secrets of science magic and how you can do your own science at home.

October 2, 9, 2006, 10:30-11:30am or Saturdays: April 7, 14, 2007

NEW! Eggcellent Safety – 1 session –  Can you build a crash safe car? Sam and Ed are two eggs who can help you out with your design. Build your own crumple zones and crash absorbent bumpers on model carts that will carry Sam and Ed down an 8 foot long ramp into a brick!  See if you can keep Sam and Ed from cracking or loosing their yolk!

November 7, 2006 10:30-11:30am -> this date is now FULL please sign up for the January class:   January 15, 2007 10:30-11:30am
 

NEW! Ancient Egypt – 3 sessions - What is a Pharaoh? Cleopatra was a Pharaoh. How did the Pharaohs live?   Come and learn how to read hieroglyphs, the language of the Ancient Egyptians. Do an archeological dig of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s city.  Make your own floor plan of a Pharaoh’s temple complete with walls made of mini fire kiln bricks and make your own painted limestone frescos, add columns and statues.   Make your own Egyptian jewelry with glass beads and real Ancient Egyptian amulets!  We will have much more.

December 26, 27, 28, 2006 11:00AM-12:00PM  or  February 19, 20, 21, 2007 1:30-2:30pm
 

Medieval Castles – Our most popular class!! - 4 sessions - Turn back the clocks to the 14th century, you’re now in the land of Kings and Castles.  You are a King (or a Queen) and want to take over your neighbor’s castle or you must defend your own. We have no gun powder so there are no guns.  How would you do it?  What makes a real castle? Why was the trebuchet the ultimate castle smasher? How would you defend against it? Learn about arrow loops, moats, drawbridges, machicolations, crenellations, and that people in the dark ages were actually quite smart!   Hands on activities:  Learn how to build a strong castle wall.  Discover which is stronger a square tower or a round tower? Come play with a real desktop sized catapult.  See a real trebuchet in action!    Use a realistic toy cross bow and battering ram and see how they were really used and how to defend against them.  Come explore secret castle defenses that medieval engineers designed in the castle. 
Saturdays: January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2007

Medieval Banquet Cooking – 1 session - What did people eat in the 15th century? Did they eat turkey legs?  No, turkeys actually came from America in the 16th century.  Did they eat potatoes?  No potatoes.  So what did they eat? What’s good for you and what’s not good for you? Their food was sweet and savory, flavorful and fresh. Medieval food is quite delicious.  See what the Kings and Queens of Medieval Times enjoyed in their meals! Hands on activities: Come visit a real medieval vegetable market, what kinds of foods could you buy? Taste or smell spices and herbs, come and see and touch what these plants looked like.   Make a real Medieval Apple and Raisin tart that you can eat or take home! Experience a true Medieval Banquet setting, did they eat with their hands or did they use forks? Hint, they didn’t use plates. 

January 15, 2007 1:30-2:30pm or Saturday:  February 17, 2007

Medieval Illuminations -  2 sessions - Create your own illuminated paintings with paints you make from crushed gemstones, flowers, water and egg yolk. Egg tempera paints of the Medieval and Renaissance times were highly luminescent, exquisitely beautiful and easy to make! Egg yolk actually makes ordinary water based paints richer in color. Children will paint medieval pictures and their own names in calligraphic fonts that they can later frame!

Saturdays: February 3, 10, 2007 or April 2, 3, 2007 10:30-11:30am
 

Geometry Goes Wild! – 2 sessions -  Geometry is fun for you eyes as well as your mind! You know what squares and triangles are, you may even know what a pentagon is, but do you know what a dodecagon is? Or an icosahedron? Do you know can what you can do with them?  Nature uses them all the time, let’s see if you can find them all! Can you tessellate? Did you know that tessellations are around us all the time?  Come and create tessellations and play with Puzzellations! 

Saturdays: February 24, March 3, 2007 10:30-11:30am