Advanced Robotics -The Ultimate Experience -  In this workshop  you'll be building and taking home the Jungle Robot, an advanced level robot. There are many steps in the assembly  process, one of which is the gear box. You'll get to see and learn how different types of gears mesh  and are driven by a motor. You'll connect the motor, battery and microphone to a circuit board, which will program your sound activated (clap of the hand) robot.

There will be time set aside in this workshop, to put your imagination and skills to the challenge. Working in small groups, you'll build different robotic creatures and vehicles. They will eventually be tested for speed, strength and endurance. The robots built in this section of the workshop are not taken home. They are taken apart and the parts are reused to build yet another robotic creation. Tires, motors, gears, wires and controllers are used to move these robots across the floor. After making trial runs, you can modify your designs to increase your robot's level of speed and/or strength, to meet the testing challenge. Your robotic creations will be tested in Sumo battles, tugs- of-war and vehicle distance timings, etc. 

This is the Advanced Robotics Workshop. Your level of learning and creativity will produce some of the best "Free Building Robots" among our many workshops. 

Hyper Peppy Robotics -  A look into the past and the future.  Build and take home your own Hyper Peppy Robot.  It's sound activated. Use the clap of your hands to get it moving. It has a very sensitive touch/sound sensor.  When it comes in contact with an object it will automatically go into reverse, and then turn left before embarking on a new course.  It’s fast!!! You're able to adjust it's sensitivity to sound.You will see, first-hand, the many gears, circuit board, microphone, and it's easy to assemble mechanical drive system.  The completed project will help build self-confidence.You will also get to build other robots as a part of a small group.  Be a part of robotic technology and have fun investigating the future effects it will have on our lives. 

The All-Terrain Tracker Workshop - How about some land rover excitement?  Build and take home your very own All-Terrain Tracker Vehicle!  It travels the rough terrain overcoming objects in its path.  Sciensational Workshops will bring its own course for you to conquer.  Sand, stones, twigs, and balls will all be part of the challenge.  How about a timed race?  You will also learn about gears.  Work in a group with your new friends as you design a robot you can control.  Build a Sumo wrestler and be part of our battle box events.  Loads of fun and education in store the Sciensational way!

Blowfish Robocraft -   It is loads of fun to build.  It’s a Robotfish with big, puffy cheeks.  You will build it and take it home.  It is great to play with and educational too.  Watch it as it moves in our miniature pool.  Our Blowfish Robocraft is propelled forward by a left/right moving tail fin.  Learn about gears and circuits as you have fun building it.  Your Blowfish Robocraft has a motor and you will learn how it works. We will see how fast your Blowfish Robocraft is, as you enter our Sciensational races. You will also get to design and build other robots that can perform many tasks.  Build a car for speed and go on our obstacle course. A lot of fun and education mixed together.

Follow Me Robot - How would you like to build a robot that has four built-in microphones? It will detect the sound source and in turn it will move and turn accordingly.  It is your own robot to build and take home.  Wow!  It starts flashing and plays Do-Re-Me.  Make it move the way you want it to move.  It is so smart.  It will move in its own routine if it does not get a signal in 1 minute.  It will go to sleep if you do not issue any commands in 90 seconds.  However, you can wake it up.  Learn about the different gears and sensors as you build it.  Get to build other robots working in groups.  Join in our Sumo wrestling and obstacle course events with what you have built.  See everything happening as you build.  That's the Sciensational way!

Line Tracking Sensor Robot -  Activities Include:  The two photo interrupters, acting as eyes, makes your robot go the way you want it to.  It is yours to build and keep.  It will follow a black line.  Design your own track from black tape or black paper.  You can change the route anytime that you want.  Learn about the different gears as well as what the photo interrupter does.  Wow, this would be a fantastic science fair project.  Get to build other robots working in groups.  You will get to work with motors, wires, gears, controllers, wheels, plastic pieces and axles.  Join us in our Sumo wrestling, tug-of-war and obstacle course building.  Use your imagination and create the Sciensational way!

Amphibious Vehicle and Row Boat Workshop - Build and take home TWO exciting projects.  You will build an Amphibious Vehicle.  YES!! One that can travel on land or shallow water.  We will bring our miniature pool to test it out.  You will learn as you build, how the submarine motor, worm gear rudder, and the propeller works.  It is one cool vehicle that is a challenge to build!!  Participate in Sciensational Workshops' land water races.  If that’s not enough, you will also build your own model Row Boat.  The sturdy white plastic hull holds all interior engine parts.  Your model Row Boat comes with oars.  Watch as it swiftly travels in the Sciensational Workshops’ pool.  See how the crank-arm, gear box, switch lever, and link-rod work.  Nothing is hidden.  You will also get to build other things.  Design robots for a tug-of-war, Sumo wrestling match, race, and other fun projects.  Two great projects to build and take home while learning the Sciensational way!

*NEW* Robotic Arm Science  - Learn the science of robotics as you have fun building, commanding and taking home your own 5 motor arm!  With your Robotic Arm you can command your gripper to open and close, move your robotic wrist, elbow, base and command vertical and horizontal reaching moves.  Your robot will be equipped with 100 grams of lifting capacity.  Additional features include a search light on the gripper for night operation.  With your Robotic Arm you will have total command and visual manipulation using the five switch wired controller.  Plus, have fun building a wide range of additional robotic designs with the robotic building system.  Participate in our robot olympic style challenges, robot battles and more! Ages 9 - 13

Can You Dig It? -  Fossil hunt - Do you dig Dinosaurs?   Archaeology and Paleontology seem like big words to kids.  Now Sciensational Workshops for Kids makes them come alive. Each child will partake in a simulated fossil excavation, uncovering the different bones of a dinosaur. Each child will then assemble the bones to form a completed 3-dimensional dinosaur to be taken home. We will bring the excavation tools, labels and specimen bags. We will use our geological time and fossil charts. You will make a plaster fossil replica of an ammonite, Tyrannosaurus rex tooth or choose from other molds. You'll identify 20-million year old shark's teeth and see other fossil replicas such as, a cave bear tooth, an ammonite, a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth or a dinosaur egg etc. See and work with our rock and mineral collection. Be a rock hound and identify different rocks and minerals. See and hold our giant pumice rock specimen - it’s from Mt. St. Helens.  Come join Sciensational Workshops for Kids. It'll be fun and educational.

Egyptian Dig - Buried Treasure Digs - Children discover the amazing science of Archaeology as they uncover ancient artifacts.  In doing this, we will learn about Egyptian life.  We will excavate with tools like a real archaeologist uses.  We will find the following artifacts as we excavate a scarab (what’s that?), hieroglyphic tablet, ankh symbol and a jackal.  You will learn about this and even take home a booklet.  The artifacts are yours to keep.  We will wet the sand that we dig into and create one of two sand sculptures for display.  You can make a pyramid as well as a sphinx.  Let’s go back in time with a hands on archaeological experience! 

Prospectors Mystery Rock Workshop - You are going to be a Prospector (you know those people who were always looking for gold).  In this workshop you will get to excavate for valuable gems, fascinating rocks, and some ancient fossils.  All are yours to keep.  What hidden wonders will you find?  The identities of the 10 specimens found in your Mystery Rock have been kept a secret from you.  You will experience the thrill of discovery, much as prospectors did.  You will be able to identify each one.  Your specimens are in a hard clay material the same as prospectors found.  You will have to get them out without breaking or scratching them.  That’s not that easy.  You will get an excavation tool, specimen brush, log book, sorting trays and labels.  You will, as a Prospector, record the color, both wet and dry texture, and its ability to float for each of the 10 specimens you dig out.  Make an educated guess with our help to whether each one is a rock, gem, or fossil.  See how good you are.  You will learn from us the exact name and classification.  We give you hands-on science...Prospectors style - fun - educational - exciting! 

Medieval Castle Workshop - The middle ages were a time of knighthood, castles with moats, and wide open countryside.  Archeologists are still unearthing buried treasures.  You will be digging out a Medieval Knight with armor which you will be able to take home.  You will learn about an armorial seal, coin, heraldic pendant, and an arrowhead.  Become an Archeologist with fun activities in this exciting field of science.  Dig away!

Maglev Cars - Magnetic Levitation for Future Transportation - Build your own “futuristic Maglev” car to race and take home.  In 1999 a Japanese five-car maglev train set a record of 345 miles/hour.  Yours won’t go that fast, but we will have fun building it and learning how it operates.  Learn about the relationship between magnetism and electricity.  You will also get to build a simple maglev track as well as a cool electromagnet.  Learn how motors work, as well as generators.  Build and take home the world’s simplest motor.  Make your own compass and take part in many other magnificent magnetic activities!  Yes, Sciensational Workshops again starts with the Maglev car (magnetism - electricity - levitation) and goes in all directions to have fun and learn while doing hands-on activities.  Ages 7 - 12  

CSI-Crime Scene Investigation- You will be the super science sleuths.  Have fun learning about forensics, crime scene investigations, and crime lab chemistry as you perform as many as 15 different experiments designed to show you just how those tricky cases are solved.  Search for the evidence, gather clues, and discover how science can help solve a mystery.  Participants will:  Dust for fingerprints, analyze handwriting, test for blood type using simulated blood, examine hair and clothing fibers,  practice chemistry to identify mystery substances and much more.  Participants will then use their skills to solve crimes of the century.  Ages 8 - 12

Make It and Take it Home - Science Projects you take home - that teach - that are fun.  In this hands-on, fun, and exciting program, you will discover how amazing science is. You will make and take home a wide assortment of toys designed to teach you science concepts in a hands-on way.  Grow and take home a crystal tree.  Make an energy bead bracelet and watch as those amazing beads turn from white to a rainbow of colors before your eyes. Build a working electric motor. Make your own sharpie pen T-shirt and learn some cool chemistry (student supplies a 100% cotton T-shirt). Make your own bubbling blobs and explore the properties of a density tube.  Make silly putty—glowing goo—green flubber and other cool projects. By the way...we will make ice cream in our own amazing, different, Sciensational way!  Ages 6 - 11

Electronic Lab - 30 different projects and experiments are built with your own electronic kit to keep in this hands-on workshop.  The Science Electronics Lab will stimulate kids’ minds by using easy to understand experiments to increase their knowledge of electronics.  Science project ideas will come alive as they build the 30 projects while working with Electronic Circuits.  The electronics kit is reusable.  Have fun designing your own projects once you’ve built all 30.  Kids can proceed at their own pace.  Each participant will keep: an 80 page manual, 1 solderless circuit board, 12 resistors, 2 capacitors, 2 light-emitting diodes, 2 transistors, 1 battery snap, 1 diode, 1 speaker, 1 timer, 1 photocell, 1 rectifier, 1 potentiometer, and 1 switch.  Learn the ins and outs of how they work.  Kids will be grouped by age.   Ages 7 - 12

Lasers - Galaxies - and Then Some - Children explore science as a fun and exciting process of investigation.  Each day we conduct experiments, discover the amazing, and test our own ideas.  You will learn about LASERS.  Dancing, swirling, pulsating laser light will be part of our Laser Light Show.  Work with our light blitzer as a laser light flashes to music. We will conduct experiments with our LASER POINTER plus lenses and mirrors as we have fun and learn.  Build and take home your own kaleidoscope, spectroscope, periscope and constellation watcher.  Watch the constellations in our room and learn about all the planets as you take our 3-D Adventure into outer space!  This workshop will be a De-Light-ful hands-on experience.  Ages 7 - 12
 

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Harry Potter - Join Our Magical Mystery Tour - All aboard for lots of hands-on fun.  Join in the escapades of Harry and his friends.  Play quidditch.   Make an edible wand. We will brew some fantastic potions to drink.  Let's create and watch some amazing chemical reactions.  Watch a mirage appear.  You won't believe it!  Wonder where the sorting hat will place you?  Make cool crystals. Come join us where the magic of science, art, and literature meet.  Harry, Ron, and Hermoine are waiting for your arrival!  Experiment with colored magic sand. See a mysterious glowing ball. Ages 6 - 11

Roller Coasters - & More Amusement Park Rides Learn simple engineering ideas, but come here for action and fun.  Build a working Roller Coaster, as part of a group, and watch as our coaster cars go up and down steep inclines, as well as through many thrilling loops.  Our Roller Coaster will be 3 ft. long and 3 ft. high.  See if you can change things to make the ride more exciting.  Students will learn first hand the mechanism of a Roller Coaster.  Design and help build other amusement park rides, such as a Ferris Wheel, Octopus Whirl, Swing Ride or other types of rides. We’ll have our own great adventure working… learning…and having fun!  Ages 8 - 12

Model Airplanes - Bridge Building - Electronic Gadgets 

Build your own rubber-powered model airplane.  Use your model as a learning tool in aerospace education, or just have fun building a sound airplane that actually flies when assembled.  Have fun designing and building model bridges.  Join us in our bridge building contest to see which one can hold the most weight.  Learn simple engineering skills.  Build 6 electronic projects.  Some of them include a patrol car siren, burglar alarm and morse code transmitter.  You will learn how the different electronic components work.  Bring a little imagination and get ready to “Fly with Sciensational Workshops.” Ages 7 - 12

Chemical Magic - Magical Microscopes - Rocks and Minerals

Learn to make batteries from fruits or potatoes. Make a fantastic crystal tree.  Work with invisible ink.  See the happy and sad balls. Work with our powerful magnets.  Look at our prepared slides using our microscopes.  Learn about the different types of rocks and minerals from our interesting rock and mineral collection.  Be a chemical detective.  Make glob from glue. Use paper chromatography to separate colors. Make dirty pennies turn clean and clean pennies turn green.  Everything will be explained to you so you can go home having learned some interesting science.  Hands-on science is the best way to learn.  Do it the Sciensational way!  Ages 6 - 11

Hover Craft- Design Your Own Vehicle- Egg Drop Car - Do you want to design and build things that you create- not just a model you purchase?  Well this is the place for you.  Build and keep an air powered Hover Craft.  You make it defy gravity.  Once it's up and moving, then using your creativity, control its direction.

Get to build and take home your own car.  The purpose is to build a super car powered by more than one source of energy.  This can be one crazy looking vehicle.  We provide you with many materials for that dynamic vehicle that you will build.

Also get to build a Egg Drop Car.  The purpose is to build a gravity vehicle that can cushion a raw egg as the car holding the egg is dropped from a high height.  We provide you with the material to cushion the fall.  You have to be creative.

In these three challenges in one workshop, you will learn about Laws of Motion, Energy, Air Pressure, Friction, Lift, Speed and Acceleration.  You are  never to young to learn and have fun in a Sciensational hands on way.      Ages 6 - 11

Engino Building - Engineer-Architect-Creativity Workshop - Activites Include: Work with an advanced and three dimensional construction kit that is yours to keep and take home.  Be able to build and design your own creations.  You will also get your own 3-volt geared motor.  Power up a moveable Radar Surveyor with it.  See how many other ways you can make your motor work for you.  Work with the rods and connectors that allow you to join six sides at once.  You can build simple or complex models.  Build a vehicle, chopper, robot, buildings and much more.  Join us the Sciensational way to build from directions and from your own imagination and design.  Hands on is the only way! Ages 7 - 12