Community Science Night
Join us Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m. for Community Science Night!
Held in the Spring each year, this event is designed to provide an educational and fun experience for all attendees! Attendees will visit many stations to create different items and experiences. With the generous funding from Pratt & Whitney, pizza and drinks are also provided!
Activites will include:
- Fossil Finders - How do fossils form, and what stories do they tell about North Carolina millions of years ago? Explore real fossil-rich dirt from the Aurora Fossil Museum and uncover your own pieces of ancient marine life!
- Flying Machines - Build a simple flying machine that propels upward. Can you engineer the fuselage to send it higher? Aviation is not only part of our state's history, but offers numerous career opportunities from the technicians and engineers who build them, to the commercial and military pilots who operate their own flying machines!
- Sticking Together Matters - Celebrate teamwork, art, and science by collaborating to create insect posters, one pixel at a time. As you place each sticker “pixel,” you’ll explore the basics of digital art while discovering the diversity of insects and the vital roles they play in ecosystems.
- Binary Code Keychain - Discover how computers “chat” by understanding their primary language: binary code! Master the foundations of coding, while also creating a keychain with your "initials" to keep!
- Light-Up Nametags - Create an electrical current and turn your nametag into a light show. The power is in your hands, let’s turn invisible energy into something we can see!