Explore the amazing properties of mirrors and lenses, and discover all the wonderful images and colorful patterns you get when angles and symmetry come into play. Design and build your own unique kaleidoscope.

What do a grasshopper’s rear legs, a Ferris wheel, an overpass, and a car jack have in common? Find out as you create and use a variety of simple machines. Change the size and direction of forces to give yourself a mechanical advantage and make your work easier!

Use microscopes and magnifiers to discover the fascinating world of organisms and elements among us! Explore the structures and functions of a variety of interesting features among a micro-world of bugs, plants, and rocks.

How does water move over a landscape? Design, build and test models to track water movements. Explore how ancient and modern communities design unique landscapes from stepped terraces to sunken waffle gardens to capture and conserve vital water resources.

How can we create cleaner water? Experiment with a variety of materials to filter water samples. Test your samples before and after for turbidity, hardness, and pH, and find out how effective different filtration methods may be.

From forensics to fireworks, chemists learn about interesting substances by performing various tests. Using chemical analysis and powers of observation, participants will each determine the composition of a mystery mixture. Chemical reactions, suspensions, solutions, and mixtures are all part of this mysterious exploration.

Use computer interfacing with Makey Makeys, an invention kit that turns everyday objects into touchpads that interact with the computer, to create your own unique musical instruments to play wild digital music.

Use microcontrollers, your knowledge of conductivity, and most importantly, creativity to create your own device with a Makey Makey! Turn everyday objects like foil, play-dough, or even fruit into responsive game buttons and see how your custom controller holds up in action!

With a touch of the Van de Graaff electricity generator, we'll energize our understanding of static electricity with hair-raising, empowering experiments that tend to create oohs, ahhs, and a few giggles, too!

Make it, fold it, sculpt it, cut it, and recycle it! Dive into scientific discovery about paper. Use magnifying tools to investigate paper properties before transforming recycled scraps into brand-new sheets. It’s the perfect blend of creative crafting and eco-friendly science exploration!

Make it, fold it, sculpt it, cut it, and recycle it! Use the paper you made in part 1 as part of your crafting and creating exploration. Continue your journey by transforming paper into something entirely new.

Compose, arrange, and fold your very own Zine! DIY your zine, or personalized magazine, with collage, paint, and more in this introductory class all about zines.