Girlstart - STEM Extravaganza featuring Curiosity Cube
When:
November 4, 2024 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Where:
Austin, TX
About the Event:
Join Girlstart for free, hands-on STEM fun for the whole family at the Girlstart STEM Center in Austin feauturing Curiosity Cube!
- Funky Kaleidoscopes: Explore light, reflections, and symmetry with your very own kaleidoscope.
- Circuit Flashlights: Channel your inner electrical engineer as you create a circuit to power your very own flashlight!
- Gliders: Design a glider and learn how airplanes fly as you explore how positions of elevons and rudders affect aircraft movement!
- Bee Hummer: Discover the science behind sound as you engineer a device that creates vibrations to mimic the noise a swarm of bees makes.
- Thaumatropes: Create the illusion of apparent motion by constructing your own thaumatrope
- Sound Sandwich: Explore how you can change pitch by changing the vibrations, or the wavelengths, of a sound sandwich!
- Starshows: We will host starshows in our mini-planetarium all event long! Don’t forget to catch a longer starshow at our Starry Nights, the first Thursday of every month starting in September!
- Curiosity Cube: Learn about sustainable practices and how we can all contribute to protecting the planet as you follow the life cycle of a t-shirt!
Reminder: Chaperones are required. Adults must stay with their children throughout the event.
Back to the event calendar