Bubbleology - Become a Bubble Scientist!
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? 

Medieval History Series: The Dark Ages were not dark after all

Medieval Castles Siege Craft and Defense 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.  
 

Medieval Banquet Cooking!   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? Where did they get their food from? What’s good for you and what’s not good for you? How did they cook? How did they eat? Come and find out! Their food was sweet and savory, flavorful and fresh.  Medieval food is quite delicious.  Come and make your own medieval tart!   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 take home and eat!  Experience a true Medieval Banquet setting, did they eat with their hands or did they use forks?  Hint: they didn’t use plates.  

Medieval Illuminated Letters 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.  Learn how gold leaf was actually used to ‘illuminate’ the paintings by applying them to the pages. Find out what colors you can make from vegetables, fruits, and flowers. What color does an onion make? It depends on whether you’re using onions to dye cloth or paint on parchment!  Children will paint medieval pictures and their own names in calligraphic fonts that they can later frame!

Geometry Goes Wild!

Geometry Goes Wild! – 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!

Geometry Goes 3-D!
Geometry Goes 3-D –  Geometry is fun in 2-D and more fun in 3-D! Create 3-D Geometric Shapes:  Octahedrons, Dodecahedrons, Tetrahedrons (the shape of a carbon atom, the building block of nature), etc. Create Polyhedra out of paper and Zome, the best construction toy for serious scientists and engineers.  See how Nature uses 3 dimensional geometry.  Make "Sliders" which are 3-D creations from simple 2-D shapes. 

Ancient Egypt – 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.

Science Magic – 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.

Eggcellent Safety –  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!

Vehicles and MagLevs – How does a car engines work? What makes one car faster than another? How do the hydraulic brakes on a car work? See what will make the fastest vehicles of the future.  Find out what a maglev is. Make your own Maglev vehicle and race with your class mates.

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