Bright Light & Space

Includes a 30-minute Solar System Gallery Guided Tour and a related 30-minute hands-on activity.

In this illuminating exploration of light and color, students make exciting discoveries as they experiment with light, diffraction glasses, and giant water prisms. Through real-life applications, the scientific concepts of refraction, diffraction, and reflection are illustrated with engaging educational activities related to spectrum analysis and the electromagnetic spectrum.

Cost: $8.00 per student & chaperone

Intro to Bright Light

Includes a 30-minute Solar System Gallery Guided Tour and a related 30-minute hands-on activity.

In this illuminating exploration of light and color, students make exciting discoveries as they experiment with light, diffraction glasses, and giant water prisms. Through real-life applications, the scientific concepts of refraction, diffraction, and reflection are illustrated with engaging educational activities related to spectrum analysis and the electromagnetic spectrum.

Cost: $8.00 per student & chaperone

Planetarium Shows

Shown in the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium

With a fulldome screen and state-of-the-art technology, our immersive planetarium shows connect your students with topics ranging from dinosaurs and butterflies to our solar system and beyond.

Click here to see a full list of our planetarium shows.

Cost: $8.00 per student & chaperone

Robot Design Challenge

1.5-hour experience that includes content-specific instruction and related hands-on activities.

Students sharpen their critical thinking and problem-solving skills to build modular robots. Working in teams, they will use the Science and Engineering Practices to develop inventions that sense, compute, and act upon the world around them. As students design their robots, they actually build a program through hands-on coding. This class culminates in a race that challenges each group to create the smartest and fastest robot.

Cost: $8.00 per student & chaperone

Robot Design Investigation & Challenge

1.5-hour experience that includes content-specific instruction and related hands-on activities.

Students sharpen their critical thinking and problem-solving skills to build modular robots. Working in teams, they will use the Science and Engineering Practices to develop inventions that sense, compute, and act upon the world around them. As students design their robots, they actually build a program through hands-on coding. This class culminates in a race that challenges each group to create the smartest and fastest robot.

Cost: $8.00 per student & chaperone