Superheros have landed at Lucas Heights these school holidays, with Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) workshops that make science fun.
ANSTO will be showing children aged 8-14 that you don’t need spiders, mutagen or the allspark to find their inner superpower, but can use everyday household materials for super activities.
During the workshops, ANSTO will show kids how to transform items like heartburn relief chews, water and glue into lava lamps, pop rockets and bouncy superballs.
A total of nine, 90-minute workshops will be run over three days from Wednesday 23 September to Friday 25 September, and will cost $10. Children are required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
“These school holiday workshops are about giving children a fun way of engaging with the applications of science – it’s not all textbooks and periodic tables,” said Rod Dowler from ANSTO’s Discovery Centre.
“In addition to our awesome experiments, the workshops will feature an invisible force segment, where kids conduct multiple static and magnetism experiments, and then have a magnet race.
“Kids will have the chance to spend their time creating bendy water, playing with magnetic slime and lighting a bulb. There really is something for everyone.”
If a superhero workshop doesn’t spark a child’s inner superpower, then a family tour of Australia’s only research reactor might.
Run morning and afternoon during the holidays, the ever popular “Up and Atom Science Tours” gives kids and adults the opportunity to see some of Australia’s most advanced scientific equipment.
During those tours, people learn not just about the reactor but the outcomes and outputs - the relationship between nuclear science, life-saving medicine, and climate change and water management.
For more information about the superhero workshops, call 02 9717 3090 during business hours. To book, go to http://www.ansto.gov.au/Events/