Imagination Station makes a special bubble solution that is excellent for making small and giant bubbles. We bring buckets, bins and wands for the solution, all you bring is the excitement and fun.

Engage in electrical engineering by creating circuits to power small lights and motors. Participants explore the 3 essential elements of circuitry and learn how to make parallel, simple, and series circuits.

This large-scale engineering challenge explores structural engineering by building a sturdy tower or dome with only wooden dowels and rubber bands.

Your class will use the engineering design process to see the creative and dynamic side of this field as they work through an engineering challenge during a design and build.

Let your students travel back in time using scientific inquiry to discover the prehistoric world. During this workshop, students will become paleontologists and dig for fossils to learn how scientists study creatures that disappeared 65 million years ago. Preschool and Kindergarten students will explore the same content with an added literacy component in a special workshop just for them–Little Big Dig!

Electric Energy, how does it work? Where can it come from? How do we use it?  We will answer these questions and more as your students engage in hands-on activities related to natural resources, conductors, circuitry and solar power. 

Discover the objects in our solar system and their motion. Then get a close-up view of all of the planets!

Students will dive into the engineering design process as they program robots to solve real-world challenges. Through collaboration, critical thinking, and creative experimentation, participants will strengthen their problem-solving skills while exploring the exciting possibilities of robotics.

Explore Newton's 3rd Law and make a chemical reaction strong enough to propel a film canister to the ceiling. Participants experiment with ingredients to make the highest and fastest rockets.

Learn what plants need to grow and create the perfect environment for a small seed as you make your own necklace. Participants can even hang their new accessory in the Sun to watch it grow.

Students investigate the relationships between the Sun, Earth and Moon that cause the moon phases and solar eclipses. They'll learn how these planetary events are part of predictable patterns.

Explore the change from potential to kinetic energy as you build your own button flywheel fidget toys.

Worms and bugs can seem scary and gross. By observing these critters up close, learning more about their behaviors, and exploring their environmental benefits, we realize that they are vital to our world.

Enhance your life science instruction, through the crosscutting concepts of structure and function, with one of our unique hands-on dissection workshops. Working with safe, nontoxic specimens, your students will gain firsthand evidence of body systems, new skills, and career inspiration. Select one: Grasshopper, Crayfish or Cow Eye

This 45-minute presentation explores fundamental science concepts with an exciting extreme twist. Water defies gravity, metal sparks and a liquid that is -320ºF displays incredible abilities.

Dive into the world of invention as your students discover the invention process and historical inventors. Then they will work in groups to create their invention prototypes to solve a problem. 

Students learn to identify linkages in their daily lives and use their newfound knowledge to build a creation that moves. They'll unlock their creativity as they get hands-on experience with the engineering design process.

Learn about owls, their environments and be a part of science research! Your students will identify bones and collect data to learn more about owls, their diet and their digestive system.

Students will explore foundational coding concepts as they design algorithms to control robots. With a focus on creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving, participants will bring their ideas to life through interactive challenges and engaging technology.

This competition-style demonstration teams up your students to compete in challenges while introducing them to important science concepts. Your class will have a blast as you cheer each other on in this game-show-esque experience.

Explore how ooey, gooey, simple ingredients can be mixed to make your very own non-Newtonian fluids. You'll experiment with different amounts of each ingredient until you get the perfect slime texture.

Explore how the Sun creates night and day. Then discover the other stars in our universe, along with some famous constellations and the myths they are based upon.

Students will discover substances and explore the differences between chemical and physical changes while experimenting with film canister rockets and endothermic and exothermic reactions.

Get down and dirty as your students learn about nature’s own recycling system: Decomposers! These important creatures break down organic matter and return it to the ecosystem for other creatures to use again and again. Students will participate in a hands-on investigation and get up-close and personal with real decomposers.

Students learn how stars are born, facts about the objects in our solar system, model the moon phases and explore how objects orbit each other. Then, they'll experiment with erosion, observe and classify rocks.

Students explore Newton's Three Laws of Motion and the engineering design process as they experiment with magnets, rockets and create a machine that can transport a marble.

Young learners will explore the world of robots through hands-on activities that encourage teamwork and communication. Guided by playful challenges and imaginative storytelling, students will have the opportunity to bring robotic creations to life.

Using everyday materials, students engineer their own pathways for marbles and try to successfully meet our design parameters as they get hands-on with the engineering process.

Travel with Wally the Walleye on his journey down the Maumee River into Lake Erie. Students will explore why water is such a valuable resource and learn ways to reduce the impacts of pollution.

Be a robot programmer! Students experiment with making robots move, light up, make sounds and sense their environment.

Science and engineering are excellent ways to integrate social emotional learning (SEL) into your classroom. Current or future teachers learn ideas for implementing different engineering challenges, integrating SEL and a greater knowledge of how the science center can be a resource.

Become a structural engineer as you explore how science and math combine to create amazing architecture. Students are challenged to create Roman arches, earthquake-resistant buildings, build bridges, follow blueprints, design domes and more.

Experience the latest in engineering, electronics, fabrication, coding and robotics. Students will work with state-of-the-art technology like laser cutters and 3D printers as they create, build and experiment. Each activity teaches critical skills for the future and showcases STEAM fields.