Make it Green

Learn about green design and in the process develop science and engineering skills. Girls will construct a green studio from start to finish – from brainstorming an idea, to creating a floor plan, to building “green.”  Through smaller activities, you will explore and reflect on their energy usage in your home and consider ways in which you can change your habits to lessen your environmental impact.

Power it Up

Learn about electronics and circuitry through a series of hands-on investigations. You will begin with exploration of Snap Circuits^TM, learn about basic electronic components and build different kinds of circuits. Rounding out this unit, you will learn how to solder and put your skills to action, making an Electric Game Board and Tilt Lantern that you can take home.

Design Time

Do you love to play and be creative?   You will learn about the engineering design process and get your creative juices flowing by building and designing a pencil pouch for your buddy and a unique bubble wand and solution.  You’ll also build protective packaging for your favorite cookie and prototype a toy of your own invention.

Engineers to the Rescue! 

Survival skills meet science as you design water filters, wind-powered cranks, a message-carrying car, and safe shelter for your troop’s (make-believe) camping trip in Yellowstone National Park. After an earthquake strikes your fictional campground your electrical power, your food, and your water source are unavailable. How will you get out of this predicament? By applying your engineering, problem-solving and design savvy! Go girl power!

ThrillBuilders

Welcome to the crazy carnival of your own creation. Explore simple machines all around us as you build a merry-go-round, a bean-bag toss, and a race car. Levers, pulleys, screws and gears abound as you engineer the ultimate playground. Wheee!