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Fetch Summer & Fall Schedule

Ages 5-10
Here is the schedule of activities for the Museum’s FETCH!™ Lab. These activities take place each day at 10 a.m. and are free with paid admission.

April 27-May 2  Blow it Away

Construct a car, design a sail and discover how moving air makes it move!

May 4-9  National Lab Week

To celebrate May 7th as National Lab Day, join us all week in the FETCH Science Lab for various hands on lab activities and experiments!

May 11-16  Rescue Mission

Test out your design skills while you design and test a hook that will rescue a sunken capsule!

May 18-23 Motion Picture

Create a thaumatrope-an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one.

May 25-30 Float My Boat

Investigate floating and sinking. Build a tinfoil boat and load it up with as many pennies as you can!

June 1- 6 Train Your Brain

Challenge your brain and experiment with optical illusions and the famous Stroop Color Test!

June 7-13 Hoop Gliders and Helicopters

Build simple gliders and helicopters and learn the science that surrounds flight.

June 14- June 20 Operation Espionage

Think like a detective while you learn how to write and decode secret messages.

June 21-27 What’s the Buzz?

Make an instrument that anyone can play-a kazoo-and get the buzz on sound vibrations.

June 28- July 4 Screaming String Thing

What a racket! Turn an ordinary cup and string into a screeching, squawking sound machine.

July 5- July 11 Ice Cream Shake

Investigate the effects of heating and cooling and turn liquid milk into solid ice cream right before your eyes.

July 12- July 18 Straw Oboes and Harmonicas

Make some music and construct oboes and harmonicas out of simple materials!

July 19- 25 Motion Picture

Create a thaumatrope-an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one.

July 26- August 1 Toy Chemistry

Mix up some simple ingredients to create a bouncy, stretchy, goopy polymer!

August 2- August 8 Blow it Away

Construct a car, design a sail and discover how moving air makes it move!

August 9- August 15 Float My Boat

Investigate floating and sinking. Build a tinfoil boat and load it up with as many pennies as you can!

August 16- August 22 What Gives?

Learn about engineering and design and test a strong, supportive bridge out of simple materials.

August 23- August 29 Rescue Mission

Test out your design skills while you design and test a hook that will rescue a sunken capsule!

August 30- September 5 Motion Picture

Create a thaumatrope-an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one.

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