Our School-Age Workshop Themes
Agent Undercover
Calling all agents, calling all agents! Get into gear with Agent Undercover and learn what it takes to be successful in the spy world. With the Undercover Observer that students make and take home, they will step into the shoes of a spy in action. The viewer allows them to observe visually- a key skill for agents undercover!
All About Animals
What do animals have in common? Let’s use classification to find out. Students will have the opportunity to explore the ways animals have adapted to protect themselves from predators, including camouflage. We’ll all become animal detectives when we investigate various animal tracks, and more!
Atmosphere & Beyond
We're on a mission to explore the atmosphere on Earth, and beyond! Travel to the end of the rainbow and make a sunset! Mix up various planetary atmospheres, one molecule at a time! Build your own Space Guide to explore the planets!
Body Basics
Explore your body! Jump on the blood vessel freeway as we stop at the respiratory, digestive, skeletal, and nervous systems. Discover how these systems work to keep you healthy. Learn how each of these systems operate - without the operation!
Bugs
Creepy, crawly critters that are everywhere in our day to day lives... how they walk, how they see, how many legs they have and the unique shapes to their bodies. What do these little creatures eat and how do they survive in a world of giants?
Cells
What do you have in common with a dinosaur, amoeba, and a tree? Cells! Explore the tiniest machines in your body. Not only will the students explore cellular structures, but they will also make their own model cell in this fun introduction to the cellular sciences.
Che-Mystery
Explore the world of physical and chemical change. Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you learn how to handle labware!
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!
Crime Lab
Got clues? Analyze clues and get hot on the trail of a culprit with the Crime Lab program. With the Spynoculars take home, students safely observe clues from afar. The build-your-own binoculars are used to test the limits of magnified observation and are a diverting way to use observational skills.
Current Events
Apply your knowledge and help build an electronic game! Try to beat your teammates. 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.
Detective Science
Science: Discover how science is used to solve real crimes. Watch as the classroom is transformed into a crime lab for this exploration into the fundamentals of forensics. Become a science sleuth as we discover how police use chemistry, and the 5 senses to “clue in” at a crime scene...so much fun, it’s criminal!
Discover Detection
Step into the shoes of a detective—uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis. Students will create, collect, and analyze evidence and discover what skills are necessary as a crime scene lab technician. Whodunit? Students will find out by using their Fingerprint Finder to place and identify UV prints.
Dry Icecapades
Manipulate matter in all of its 3 states! Melt metal in boiling water, and freeze boiling water with some dry ice. Experience the exciting reaction between hot water and frozen carbon dioxide. Use your thermocolor cup to test the temperature of liquid matter in your home.
Earthworks
Discover your planet! Learn about geodes, the chemistry of crystal formation, and metamorphic geology. Unlock the mysteries of earth's composition and specific geologic processes. Explore tectonic plates and make your own sedimentary stacker!
Energy Burst
The challenging topics of kinetic and potential energy will be explored in a very entertaining way as we explore the principles behind the energy of motion using some common and beloved toys
Fantastic Fliers
The Wright brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build a “football” glider, learn about control-surfaces and build your very own loop flying stunt plane. You’ll be a Top Gun after this class. ($40 materials surcharge per class)
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!
Funky Forensics
Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Evidence collection and puzzle making will lead them to understand why forensic scientists like to understand the complete picture before they make decisions. Students will use their Case Stamper take home to probe the science of tracking—they will stamp out a scenario on a case card according to a pre-determined story.
Glow Show
Discover amazing things that glow in the dark and come to light! Probe the properties of light and explore unusual applications of glow-in-the-dark tech! Use your Black light Writer to make secret messages that only you can see!
Harnessing Heat
Participants will build a thermometer, and see an underwater volcano erupt. We’ll change the states of matter, and cap off this workshop with a color changing Heat Sheet!
Jr. Detectives
Are detectives really scientists in disguise? Discover what it takes to be a detective in this hands-on look at detective science. Using powers of observations and the Inspecti-kit, our young scientists will have all they need to get started on their detective adventure.
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
Kitchen Chemistry
Search for starches, sugars, and fats in our foods. Find out how baking soda makes our cakes fluffy. Learn why we need vitamins and minerals, and how our bodies obtain them from food.
Life in the Sea
Become a deep-sea diver as we discover ocean habitats by experimenting with seawater and its unique properties. We’ll explore the creatures that inhabit our oceans and some of their features that allow them to adapt to a watery life.
Lights...Color...Action
Uncover the hidden components in ordinary light and build a Newton color wheel or make a chromatography bookmark to prove it. Learn about how we see color and what how colors and paint can be mixed for new and surprising results! Discover black lights and dance to the stroboscope. This program promises to be enlightening!
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 Spacewalk Challenge!
Mad Science Machines
Test your skills as an engineer. Apply the concepts of work, force, and friction to designing and building simple machines with wheels, axles, gears, and levers. Make and take home a Drag Racer car!
Magnetic Magic
Kids discover the invisible fields surrounding magnets with our iron filings. They devise and perform experiments to test magnetic strength.
Matter of Fact
Students explore molecules and the forces that hold atoms together. They see the dramatic differences between physical and chemical changes, as they mix up a batch of their very own Mad Science Putty to take home.
Mineral Mania
Students recreate the process of rock formation and devise ways to identify and classify rocks and minerals. They experience the thrill of panning for gems; the gems they find, they can take home for further study and investigation.
Movie Effects
Discover why science is the real star on the big screen. Create cool sound effects. Toy with 3-D technology. Make motion pictures come alive. Sketch a short feature in the Cartoon Creator flipbook.
Moving Motion
We’ll discover the science behind movement. How do planes, trains, and automobiles move? How does friction, inertia, and other physical forces effect movement? We’ll use everyday materials to create our own forces kits to take home. Buckle yourself in for a fun time!!
Optical Illusions
The “Eyes” have it in this visionary workshop! Students will be introduced to the concepts of refraction, the science of optics, and the biology of eyes. Kids will get to examine mirages and build their own periscopes.
pH Factor
Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases! Explore pH extremes with a Reaction Tube that is sure-to-be a popping experience! Discover whether liquids found in your home are acids or bases.
Planets & Moons
Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse in the “mad” planetary tour! Learn how the planets stack up. Build and take home a Gravity Assisted Launcher kit.
Science of Magic
Magic? No - it’s science! Find out the secrets of Houdini in this fantastic class. You’ll learn the secrets behind famous magic tricks that you can recreate for yourself. Even create your own magic trick to play on your family.
Science of Toys
What makes toys work? Move out of the way for motorized toys. Take a spin with kinetic tops. Balance a bird to reveal its center of gravity. A twist of the wrist sets your Yo-yo toy spinning!
Sleuths on the Scene
Suspects, schematics, and sleuths... oh my! Connect the dots using science to help solve a crime in this hands-on investigation at the science of sleuthing. Students continue their sleuthing at home using their Scene Solver take home to reconstruct the scene of a crime with family and friends.
Slime Time
This class demystifies one of the most beneficial molecules known to humankind…polymers! Create slime using the special Mad Science recipe!
Sonic Sounds
This class introduces students to transmission of sound waves, and allows them to experience digital voice reproduction and sound effects just like in the movies. Using electronic technology, young Mad Scientists will have a sound-warping adventure.
Space Technology
Discover technology designed for outer space! Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, find hidden mountains using the principles of radar technology and discover everyday objects originally designed for use in space! Build your own Stereoscopic Viewer to discover scenes from our solar system!
Space Travel
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a balloon rocket and balloon car as you learn about thrust. See the principles of propulsion at work in a reach rocket launch, and build your very own Balloon Copter to fly to the skies!
Spy Academy
Look out 007—the Mad Science Spy Academy is in session! From edible messages and decoding clues, students will have the opportunity to check out the skills that spies have in this hands-on journey into the world of espionage. Students will make and take home their own Secret Code Breaker to communicate stealthily at home, like real spies.
Sun & Stars
This stellar program is your ticket to the stars! Watch star dust burn, and build your own constellations as you investigate the life cycle of stars! Use your Cosmic Disk to explore the constellations!
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!
Super Structures
Amazing architecture and engineering! Discover how simple shapes like the triangle and arch strengthen and reinforce buildings. Join our science structure challenge... build an earthquake proof-building.
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!
Walloping Weather
Get weather-wise. Uncover the reason for seasons. Create three-day weather forecasts. Stage a statically-charged indoor storm. Spot the sun's invisible UV rays with the Sun Beads kit.
Watts Up!
Charge up on static electricity! Make indoor lightning and conduct hair-raising experiments with our electro-static generator. Use your Static Stick to test the movement of electrons in your home!
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