Middle School (ages 11-13) & General Public

Learn how to make 2 versions of an Electromagnet. This demonstration can be used to explain the effects of a flowing current and magnetic fields! The 'easy' version involves a D battery and insulated wire while the 'intermediate' version uses a lantern battery, a switch, and insulated wire.

Learn about how our vocal folds work by using straws!

Experience the power of sound by listening to a number of audio files that will transport you to different places! You can find the files here:

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Learn about standing waves and how waves are constructed by creating your own!

Learn about the doppler effect by constructing a doppler ball you can toss around!

Learn about reflection and refraction via lasers in water.

Learn about moment of intertia and rotaional mechanics through racing food cans down an inclinded plane.

Use mousetraps and ping pong balls to understand how nuclear reactors work.

This demo will show what happens to the surface of a moon or planet when a rockets lands. 

This demonstration uses a slinky and tuning fork to explain two types of waveforms in our world: transverse and longitudinal. A discussion on sound waves is included and leads to categorizing sound waves as longitudinal waves.

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