Would you like to control a basketball-playing robot on a drive to the hoop? Do you want to understand the science behind super balls, or see what an animal architect looks like? Discover all this and more when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Triangle SciTech Expo, Saturday, April 23, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Triangle SciTech Expo is a Signature Event with the NC Science Festival and is sponsored by Biogen Foundation. Free.
Featuring more than 50 hands-on exhibits, games, crafts and activities, plus several presentations, Triangle SciTech Expo is a unique event that assembles scientists and technical professionals from universities, organizations and industry to engage visitors of all ages in the excitement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. Visitors will learn about the Triangle area’s history and promising future as an innovative leader in these fields, as well as why these fields are important to their daily lives.
Interactive stations give you a chance to spot sunspots through a solar telescope, build a working Super Mario Brothers controller out of Play-Doh, use your friend as a keyboard, or try your hand at the duct tape challenge. Or you can enjoy presentations covering topics ranging from how to harness the power of your brain, with Patricia Leigh of the Chapel Hill Brain Centre, to what it’s like to perform astronomical research on the largest airborne observatory in the world, with Museum astrochemist Rachel Smith.
Find out more at naturalsciences.org, or follow #TriSciTech on Twitter or Instagram.