Playing With Time is a traveling exhibit from the Science Museum of Minnesota that gives you the tools you need to see a previously hidden world: events that occur too quickly or too slowly for humans to see. The flap of a hummingbird wing. The expansion of the universe. This imaginative exhibit invites you to examine these invisible dynamics by using high-speed photography, time-lapse videos and animations to effectively turn the world’s speed up and down.
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Playing With Time is a co-production of the Science Museum of Minnesota and Red Hill Studios. The exhibit was made possible with support from the National Science Foundation.
All Aboard!
May 14-June 5, 2011
The Museum of the American Railroad is making tracks to Frisco. Sci-Tech Discovery Center is celebrating our soon to be neighbor with a model train layout and a hands-on look at the evolving technology behind the railway.
Exhibit made possible by the Museum of the American Railroad and the Lone Star Hi-Railers.
Ever wonder what it takes to bring cartoon characters to life? Find out at the fully interactive exhibit, Animationfeaturing Cartoon Network. Participants learn how art, math and science come together to create superheroes, virtual worlds and spectacular special effects. Who knew science could be this much fun?
October 2, 2010 – January 16, 2011
The Math Midway exhibition provides an interactive, hands-on tour of mathematical concepts, using a carnival style. The individual exhibits include exciting and surprising activities that relate math principles to games and events you would find at a typical carnival, fair, or circus.
Designed to challenge visitors of varying ages, abilities, and learning styles, this 4,500 square foot exhibit includes an array of challenging, stimulating and engaging activities.
Exhibit components range from square-wheeled tricycles that ride smoothly on a circular track of catenary arcs, to a plane of laser light that you can pass plastic polyhedra through, to find their surprising cross sections. You can create unique pen and ink drawings to take home using the mechanical harmonograph. Or play with the "organ function grinder" in which you input a number, set a function, and turn the hand crank to generate both a numerical output and a unique calliope tune which is transformed according to your function.
In celebration of this upcoming exhibit, Sci-Tech will be offering Frisco Math Path walking tours on August 2, August 21 and September 18 at 10:00 am in Frisco Square. Join us for this hour-long walking tour where we explore how we are surrounded by mathematics. Cost is $15.00 per family.
Grossology The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body
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with additional support provided by Children's Medical Center and Medical Center of Plano.
Grossology was a big hit!! For those of you that came and those that couldn't, enjoy this video of some of the gross and fun moments.
Welcome to the world of Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body, a science-in-disguise exhibition where you'll find the answers to many of the slimy, oozy, crusty, stinky questions you'd love to ask but maybe were too embarrassed to do so.
Within this exhibit you'll experience many aspects of the human body first hand, such as:
- Becoming a dust particle in a giant nose to learn about air filtering, air heating, olfaction and the wonders of mucus production.
- Climbing a wall of human skin covered in warts, hairs, wounds and other objects that act as hand and foot holds.
- Visiting the Vomit center to learn the many reasons humans vomit.
- Creating different sounds that replicate the physics of gas at the Toot-toot center.
- Crawling and sliding through a 30 foot model of the digestive system.
- Help a larger-than-life cartoon character get a much needed burp out.
You'll blush, giggle and learn as your children and you explore all of these and the many other areas in GROSSOLOGY: The (impolite) Science of the Human Body.
You'll blush, giggle and learn as your children and you explore all of these and the many other areas in GROSSOLOGY: The (impolite) Science of the Human Body.
On Exhibition from October 3, 2009 through January 3, 2010.
Engineer It, a 5,000 square foot interactive traveling exhibit created by the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry with the support of the National Science Foundation, appeared from May 23 through September 11, 2005. This educational and entertaining exhibit encouraged visitors ages 3 to adult to THINK IT, BUILD IT, TEST IT and DO IT AGAIN! Three major testing areas provided opportunities to delve into the design and engineering process: Wind, Water and Structures.
To complete the experience, the following areas added more learning and fun:
Demonstration Stage - Educators from Plano ISD, Frisco ISD, Richardson ISD, UT-Dallas, Alcatel and Emerson Process/Fisher Controls led short interactive presentations about engineering-related topics.
Make It & Take It - Supplies and directions were provided to visitors to make
items that demonstrated engineering principles, such as rotocopters, origami boats and popsicle-stick sailboats.
Convergence Café - Collin College's Convergence Technology Center led interactive laptop sessions for middle-school aged and older visitors, sponsored by National Science Foundation.
Math Can Take You Places - Created by KERA and sponsored by Travelocity and Sabre, math activities based on a sports theme challenged visitors to think about the math on a basketball court.
Party Area - Unique birthday experiences included a special hands-on activity, exploration of the exhibit, a place for refreshments and a party helper.
Zap! Surgery Beyond the Cutting Edge appeared June 5 through August 28, 2004
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This $2.4 million, 6,000 square foot exhibit developed by the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh demonstrated the basic science concepts behind some of today’s most fascinating surgical techniques.
Fourteen thousand visitors were challenged to "be the surgeon" as they enjoyed hands-on modules about five leading-edge surgical techniques: endoscopes, lasers, ultrasound, cryosurgery, and Gamma Knife. The dynamic Zap! Cam motion simulator ride took participants on a virtual trip through the body, and Zap! Jr. encouraged younger participants to role-play and explore human anatomy and medical technologies. Participants even got to play a life-size version of Hasbro’s OperationTM Game.
Adding to the experience were:
Demonstration Stage - where expert educators from Plano ISD, Frisco ISD, Collin County Community College, and UT-Dallas presented interactive demonstrations relating to related topics such as light, sound and temperature.
Party Area - Unique birthday experiences included a special hands-on activity, exploration of the exhibit, a place for refreshments and a party helper.
demonstrated the basic science concepts behind some of today’s most fascinating surgical techniques.
Community College, and UT-Dallas presented interactive demonstrations relating to related topics such as light, sound and temperature.
