CMH: Engineering activities during Free Night and This Weekend

Notice the Snap Circuits in the picture! These are the coolest!

From http://www.cmhouston.org/engineers/

National Engineers Week

We're reaching out to the next generation of independent, innovative and imaginative thinkers
February 16 – 22

Rub elbows with real life engineers
February 16, 18 – 19
Sponsored by Chevron

Engineering offers the world imaginative and innovative solutions to any task at hand and National Engineering Week celebrates those independent minds and ideas. We're preparing the next generation of talent through creative activities that will put any aspiring engineer to the test.  National Engineers Week is Feb. 19 – 25, this year.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

• Engineer Your Own Slime:  Slap on an apron and work side-by-side with real life engineers to perfect a recipe of icky, gooey goodness at the Science Station.
Event Times:  Feb. 16:  5 – 8 p.m. during Free Family Night; Feb. 18 & 19:  All Day

• Engineer a Marble Run:  Get your imagination cranking and build marble runs using wood haba blocks alongside real life engineers at the Inventors' Workshop.
Event Times:  Feb. 16:  5 – 8 p.m. during Free Family Night; Feb. 18 & 19:  All Day

• Help Engineer our Geodesic Dome:  Take over the Brown Auditorium as we build a giant dome with real life engineers!
Event Times:   Feb. 16:  5 – 8 p.m. during Free Family Night; Feb. 18 & 19:  All Day

• Engineer a Working Circuit:  Snap on circuit pieces with the help of real life engineers at Junktion.
Event Times:   Feb. 16:  5 – 8 p.m. during Free Family Night; Feb. 18 & 19:  All Day

 

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES:

• Survive the Fall:  Engineer a package system that will survive a 14 foot drop with the least amount of force applied inside the package at our Inventors' Workshop.

• Engineer a Heart:  Jump into the action at the Power Science Lab and discover how our hearts pump blood through our bodies just like a mechanical pump.

• Paper Tower:  Using only paper, put your engineering skills to work and see just how high of a tower you can build at Junktion.

• Bamboo Arches:  These blocks are curved so they give a different challenge than ordinary blocks.  What can you build at Junktion?

• Shape Building:  Explore the shapes that make up the foundations of many buildings and other structures.  Event Time:  2 – 6 p.m. at the ExxonMobil Math Cart.

***Events, activities and times subject to change.