Designing, constructing and altering creations to explore the applied sciences using simple machines and other tools.
The “Build your own coaster” exhibit is a hands-on experience that involves the creation of your own roller coaster and then the testing and re-testing of your design while understanding the concepts of energy and how it can transform from Potential Energy (energy stored in an object) to Kinetic Energy (energy associated with moving objects).
These magnetic tiles are magnetic on all sides and they attract other tiles to combine and create cubes, pyramids and other unlimited geometric shapes, leading from two-dimensional to advanced 3-D thinking patterns.
This exhibit has a fixed gear and the users objective is to select additional gears from the barrel and engineer a combination that will connect all gears together. This will develop concepts of rotation and torque.
Keva blocks can be used to design and create everything from simple stacks to elaborate cities. Using only gravity to hold the blocks up, concepts of architecture and physics are used to achieve balance, optimum proportion and a steady structure.