Date: 02/12 | Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM | Location: Science Mill
The Science Mill’s monthly Homeschool Day focuses on careers in engineering, use your engineering skills to take wild ideas from design to reality:
A roller coaster for marbles!
A maze for robots!
Catapults that play catch!
Challenge yourself to build crazy contraptions from unusual materials, including a sky-high tower from bamboo skewers. Register in advance for immersive Learning Labs. Plus, students can explore the museum’s 50+ unique exhibits and see “Incredible Predators 3D”. Homeschool activities will run 10am-2pm, the museum will be open 10am-4pm.
Hands-on Activities
Stations run continuously from 10am-2pm
Crazy Contraptions
Explore the forces of gravity and friction while creating a contraption that will get a marble from the top of your pegboard to the bottom — the crazier and longer the ride, the better!
Bamboo Towers
Using only bamboo sticks and clay, engineer a bamboo tower that will stand tall on its own. How high can your tower go?
Hexbug Mazes
Build a maze for a robotic bug! Choose your building material (foam blocks or MagnaTiles), plan your path, add in a tunnel (cardboard tube) and see if your Hexbug can make it through.
To know more about Homeschool Day – Careers in Engineering, click here.
