Grades 7-8

This workshop explores water quality and the importance of healthy water systems.

Participants explore plate tectonics and mapping of the Earth's crust with a focus on marine sciences and applications.

Participants explore the results of plate movement and how landforms are created through simulations and models.

This workshop encourages participants to think critically while exploring various techniques used in forensic science.

Participants explore the current topic of self-driving cars and use it as a platform to learn about the big ideas behind computational thinking.

Participants learn about the economics of science by forming a company to design a self-propelled object.

Participants explore the challenges of space exploration by designing, building and testing a space probe to land on Mars.

Students will design an illusion in order to understand how motion is perceived.

Students will learn how to feel closer to their peers even while being apart during the pandemic through learning about movement synchrony and learning a dance together.

Students explore why some things dissolve but not others by learning about particle interactions.

The principles of electricity and magnetism can be used to communicate - for example by using an electromagnet to make a Morse code transmitter.

In this activity, participants will build a scale model of the distances in the solar system using a roll of toilet paper to better understand distances in space.

This activity demonstrates the importance of engineering and allows students to practice teamwork!

Students will classify species of monsters using a creature dichotomous key.

Buoyancy is the upward force that the water is exerting on the object that is floating. It is what is keeping the object from sinking! In this activity, we will learn about buoyancy through creating our own boats.