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Advanced Circuits
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:11-13
Assemble a working simple circuit, experiment with polarity, and create a parallel circuit in this upper-level circuits class.
Advanced Wind and Waves
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:11-13
Discuss which energy sources are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources and how their use affects the environment. Create a model wind and wave energy farm and calculate how much it costs to produce your energy output.
Beavers
IMAX
Length:35 minutes
Ages:4 and up
Trek through the Canadian Rockies with a family of beavers, one of nature’s greatest engineers. Watch as they fell trees, construct their lodge, evade the forest’s predators, and transform their environment.
Beyond Your Backyard Sky
Planetarium
Length:45 minutes
Ages:9 and up
A backyard exploration of the night sky sets the stage for your trip through space from the solar system through the Milky Way galaxy.
Biology in a Bottle Jr.
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:6-8
Explore the different kinds of life and the importance of decomposition in nature. Build your own ecosystem and bring it home all bottled up to watch it grow and develop!
Coral Sea
IMAX
Length:45 minutes
Ages:7 and up
Travel to the South Pacific and see the Coral Sea like never before. Learn how coral reefs form and the vital role they play in the ocean ecosystem. Discover the ways local conservationists are protecting and safeguarding endangered green sea turtles.
Deep Sky
IMAX
Length:40 minutes
Ages:8 and up
Learn how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping in the search for exoplanets and providing clues about the beginning of the universe. Hear from scientists and engineers on the international team that have worked on the spacecraft for over a decade. View breathtaking images of nebulas, star nurseries, distant galaxies, and more.
DIY Constellations
Enrichment Program
Length:90 minutes
Ages:10-14
From the beginning of time people have drawn their own pictures in the sky using the stars. Use technology to create your own constellation image then see it shown in the night sky on our planetarium dome.
Parents, we invite you to join your students in the planetarium at 1:05pm to see what they’ve created.
Enlighten Me
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:7-9
What’s in a glow stick that makes it glow? What makes things light up under a black light? Is it possible to have a goldfish nightlight? Discover the answers to these questions and more as you investigate things that luminesce, shine, and glow in the dark.
Food Lab: Smoothie Science
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:6-7
Discover tasty ways to get your recommended servings of fruits and vegetables. Create smoothies and spritzers, a great alternative to sodas, using whole fruits and vegetables, fruit juices and sparkling water.
I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:3-5
Literacy and science combine as you explore a classic fairy tale. Build a house with different materials and see if it can stand up to the Big Bad Wolf.
Parents and caregivers are invited to participate with their student, but not required.
Light Benders
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:10-16
Discover the secrets of light and color. Manipulate light in ways you could never imagine and become a light bender. Use your new skills to explore different colors of light and learn about the very nature of light itself.
Make It Rain
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:5-7
Your mission is to make it rain using your science skills and knowledge of the water cycle. The MSC gardeners need you to carve rivers, condense water, and create a cloud burst to help water the plants.
One World One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure
Planetarium
Length:35 minutes
Ages:2-7
Follow Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street.
Owl Pellet Dissection
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:7-9
What are birds of prey and what do they eat? Find out by dissecting owl pellets and creating a food web based on what you find inside.
Shapes in the Night Sky
Planetarium
Length:35 minutes
Ages:5-8
Search for the shapes among the stars and constellations and rethink them into new star patterns. Dream up a story for your personal constellation.
Stories in the Stars
Planetarium
Length:45 minutes
Ages:7-14
While you may know the constellations as the Greeks have drawn them, people worldwide looked up at the same stars and saw different pictures. Explore the night sky and hear stories from around the world that bring new pictures to life.
Toys in Space
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:8-13
Fly, roll, or spin—explore the complexity of simple actions and reactions. Experiment with how toys work under the influence of gravity on Earth and predict how they would respond to microgravity in space. Think like an astronaut and dream up new ways to play in space.
We Are Aliens
Planetarium
Length:35 minutes
Ages:8 and up
Explore how the understanding of life on Earth guides the hunt for alien life elsewhere in the Universe.
What is That?
Enrichment Program
Length:45 minutes
Ages:13-18
Put your science skills to use as you form a hypothesis and participate in a scientific conference and peer review as you attempt to discover what is in the box.