Our range of workshops engage your students with inquiry based learning projects centered around hands-on activities that bring science to life.  Fully customizable to meet your program and your students’ needs, you can select from a range of lessons intended to be presented in individual 2.5 to 4 hour long sessions.

These sessions begin with a brief lecture on topics of scientific interest, then quickly move on to guided practice, where the class works together to develop a skill.  Finally they move onto independent practice, where the class breaks into small teams of 3 to 4, to compete in challenges.

These challenges often involve an experiment or engineering challenge, where students are tasked with achieving a goal, recording measurements and data, making mathematical calculations, and competing in contests.  For example, in our Balloon Car challenge students must build a car, powered by wind blown from an inflated balloon.  Students compete to see whose car can go the fastest, the farthest, and which car was built most cheaply.  Students take measurements to determine the velocity and acceleration of their vehicle.  They record observations and make predictions as to how changes to their car design might affect its performance.

The workshops are not only fun, they make scientific concepts concrete through real life application.