Curiosity on Wheels
Are you looking for an event that will wow your students or your community?
Curiosity on Wheels takes inquiry-based science to new heights as participants think — and act — like scientists by conducting hands-on, fun-filled STEM investigations. Whether it be creating an experience that reinforces science standards, enhancing thematic units, or just having fun…we can program and deliver an event to meet your content, time, and budgetary needs.
Each Curiosity on Wheels event may include customized content, staffing and supplies, marketing support, snacks and an unparalleled passion for science!
Pick a theme…any theme!
Each station can be customized to fit a theme to make for a more memorable experience. Here are just a few possible themes and station ideas to get the creative juices flowing!
Fairy Tales Gone STEM
Try your hand at identifying a mysterious animal by touch. Then meet and greet some of our favorite friends including Cleopatra the bearded dragon, Garrus the snake, a family of hissing cockroaches, and many more! Observe some of their curious characteristics and learn how their traits help them survive.
A hurricane is coming, and you need a strong shelter! Build a home that can stand up to the wind. Put your home to the test and see if it can outlast the storm.
The animals need a bridge to safely cross the river! Use common and recycled materials to achieve this engineering feat. Watch as the animals test your design.
Use knowledge of forces and motion to engineer a device to safely catch precious cargo.
Use your coding skills to program a rescue robot to locate and then guide a lost character to safety.
Design a rocket capable of landing on a far-off planet! Investigate how different variables affect the flight of a rocket and learn about aerodynamics, forces, and motion along the way!
Mystery Detectives
Have you ever wondered how scientists get DNA out of cells? Learn how to extract DNA from your own cells. Once you have your DNA, make a DNA necklace to show your family and friends.
Lightning is a hallmark of many natural hazards, it can be seen during hurricanes, snowstorms, and even during intense forest fires. Learn about how this natural phenomena is produced and investigate with different materials to produce your own electrifying force of nature!
It’s a float to the finish line! Join our scientific pit crew and learn to use a mysterious force to levitate and race a vehicle. See how fast you can make your vehicle go.
Air is an invisible but mighty force! It can do many things from uprooting trees to keeping planes in the sky. Learn how to harness this invisible power and direct it to knock down targets.
Learn how fossils are formed, discovered, and used to help us understand Earth’s past. Make a mold and cast of your favorite fossil to take home. Explore, ask questions, and find answers to the mysteries of prehistoric life.
Ready for a secret mission in the wild? Become an animal detective and find out how super sight, super smell, and super hearing help animals stay safe and find their next meal. Play and learn about these sense-sational animals’ amazing senses—it’s going to be wild!
Disaster Detectives
Oh no! While working to use radiation to create mutant corn stalks that grow abundant supplies of corn, a terrible accident occurred. Now, radioactive popcorn is littered all through a popular field, and a ragtag team of engineers must clean it up before the drinking water is infected!
This tragic little hamlet was built atop a large fault line. When tectonic plates start to shift and shake, we can only hope that the town architects were smart enough to design structures that could withstand the worst quakes in memory!
It’s bad enough when a volcano erupts in your neighborhood. But it would be even worse if your roof wasn’t strong enough to withstand the falling soot and ash. Can you design a house that can hold up under the strain?
Disaster has struck the town of Unawaria! The town needs your help conducting its search and rescue mission. Can you program your robot to creep and crawl its way through the debris to save lives?
A hurricane is coming, and your house is in the way! Put your engineering skills to the test as you work to design an aerodynamic structure that can stand up to the strongest winds. Can you help your house stand strong?
Lightning is a hallmark of many natural hazards, it can be seen during hurricanes, snowstorms, and even during intense forest fires. Learn about how this natural phenomena is produced and investigate with different materials to produce your own electrifying force of nature!
Out of This World
One of the biggest challenges associated with space travel is the return to Earth. Using everyday materials, design, build, and test a waterproof capsule that will protect astronauts as they splashdown on Earth!
After seven months in space, you have finally made it to Mars! Now it is time to descend onto the surface of the red planet. Design and build a space lander to bring two astronauts safely to their new home.
You have successfully landed a rover on Mars! Now you need to put it to work. Put your coding skills to the test using super space Spheros to navigate the surface of Mars and collect as many rock samples as fast as you can to bring back to Earth. The future of human exploration depends on your success in this mission!
Shoot a rocket capable of landing on a far-off planet! Investigate how different variables affect the flight of a rocket and learn about aerodynamics, forces, and motion along the way!
Alien animals from strange and distant worlds would need some MAJOR adaptations. Use your creative and critical thinking skills to design a space animal that can survive on a fictitious planet.
Studying craters is a high priority for NASA scientists as these places receive little sunlight and may contain amazing discoveries such as water and ice! Create your own impact craters and learn about how these amazing features shape the surfaces of the Moon and Mars!
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