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. 

The Rockit Robot -  Hyper Peppy Robotics -  A look into the past and the future.  Build and take home your own Rockit Robot.  It's sound activated. Use the clap of your hands or the sound of your voice 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.

Botball Robotics "The Robot That Does It All!" - You will build and take home your very own Botball Robot.  The soccer-playing, remote-control Botball can kick, move forward and backward, turn left and right, and make a complete circle.  With a four-channel microprocessor, up to four robots can take part in the action as students learn how to control the ball, hold it, and kick it out.  Control your Botball Robot with an infrared remote controller.  Use your Botball for kickball, soccer, golf, dribbling, and as a sumo wrestler to battle against your friends!  Let's see how good you are.  You will also get to build and design other robots that can do different things.  Yes, Sciensational Workshops - hands-on fun and educational.  Come and join us!

The Mouse - The Wall Hugging Robot- The Mouse is sleek, smart, and simply amazing.  It has two motors, a three speed gearbox, and WOW can it go fast!  It can feel its way along walls and around corners.  We will show you how you can take your amazing Mouse home and make a maze for it to go through.   This Mouse is so smart.  It’s all yours to make and keep.  Learn about gears, sensors, electronic components, circuit boards and much more.  You will also get to build other things.  Design robots that you will build.  Learn about robotic technology, the wave of the future.  Join us in learning and having fun! 

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 we will also build our 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.

The Boxing Robot - Children will assemble and take home a Mechanical Boxing Robot.  Learn about gears and motors as you assemble it.  It is amazing as it produces rapid straight and upper cut punches while moving around.  Only you control all its movements.  The two-channel remote control box allows you to move the robot forward, backward, turn right or turn left.  We will have Sciensational Workshops own boxing matches as you match your skills against another boxer.  There is even a judge plate on each robot that keeps count of knock downs.  You can even practice yourself against a plastic punching ball. You will also get to build other things.  Design robots for a tug-of-war, a sumo wrestling match, race, and other fun things.  Robots, fun, educational, all in one “PUNCHY” workshop. 

Roly Poly Robot Workshop - Your Roly Poly Robot will tumble, fumble, stumble but will find a way to right itself up.  The moment you turn it on, Roly Poly will speed away on its two amazing cyclonic wheels.  The engineering genius behind this well thought-out machine enables it to get on its feet whenever it tumbles and then will continue on its new path of exploration.  Your mechanical marvel is ready to amuse any household pet.  You will build it and take it home, and learn how it works.  You can add your original work of art, drawing, or picture of your favorite person or pet and put it inside the dome, Wow - A Great Idea.  You will also get to build other things. Design robots for a tug-of-war - sumo wrestling - tractor pull and other fun things.  Robotic technology, the wave of the future, join us in learning and having fun. 

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.  Let’s grow some beautiful crystals for you to take home. 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 the ruins of a Medieval Castle and uncovering replicas of four ancient treasures.  You will find an armorial seal, coin, heraldic pendant, and an arrowhead.  It’s fun and easy to chip away at the mystery matrix clay and to excavate, study, and display your findings.  You might even wear them as jewelry.  With the castle dig molding tray and the sand you dug away at, you can create a castle tower and a gargoyle.  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

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.  Children will make and take home a 30-times magnification plastic mini microscope.  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

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. Write with invisible ink.  Make an edible wand. We will brew some fantastic potions to drink.  Let's create and watch some fantastic 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