What is friction?  How do rockets work?  Can you really float on air?  How do airplanes fly?  Using rockets, a mag-lev jet car, a hovercraft, a radio controlled blimp, a hot air balloon, and other fun props we demonstrate the basic principals and history of transportation and flight.  This presentation really gets the students attention!

What is "mag-lev" anyway?  Why can the trains go so fast?  You mean they just float?  In this hands on workshop the class designs and builds their own magnetic levitation racer.  Students use safe, basic hand tools to build their prototype out of high density foam.  They design and build a wind propulsion system for their racer and race them on a electronically timed mag-lev track.  Using grade-appropriate math skills the students use the data collected to determine how well their vehicle worked.  This is a great problem solving workshop!

Can you build a rocket that will go up several hundred feet!  Can you measure how high it went while standing on the ground?  What makes the rocket go?  Here students design and build their own air water rocket.  Then we go outside to launch them!  Next students apply grade-appropriate math skills to determine how high their rockets flew and to evaluate their design.  This is an exciting workshop.  They can't believe how high the rockets go!