Middle School

Activities will highlight concepts from Psychological Science touching upon brain, cognitive, perceptual processes and emotion. Activities will feature visual illusions, sensorimotor tasks, short term memory exercises, mapping of visual shapes to speech sounds, visual inversion and tests for recognizing emotional facial expressions. These activities appeal to a wide range of guests from children to adults. This outreach explores the science of mental processes and behaviors.

NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program at NASA Glenn Research Center will feature the PufferSphere exhibit. A 360 degree multi-touch, interactive system that can display video, photos, motion graphics, text and any other visual resources. We will also have several Oculus Go virtual reality headsets where visitors can travel from Earth to the Moon learning about current and future space communication.

STEM activities and Makerspace/STEM projects on display from Cajon Valley Unified School District students.

We will have origami creatures, quiz questions, spinning wheel for prizes, and possible "match the anatomy" games.

We will run a hands-on STEM engineering activity

We will be displaying our 2018-19 robot. One of the proudest features we would like to showcase is its arm and intake system. This design allows the robot to pick up different game pieces and flip them to the other side of our robot, preventing the need to turn our robot around when attempting to score. The arm was specifically inspired by "Darth Maul's" double sided light-saber. We will also present how the robot works. Our team will provide any extra information about joining FIRST programs.

Sanford Burnham Prebys will be very hands-on with experiments, showing what we do in the lab, yet on lay-friendly level. We will have things for people of all ages to look at and interact with. Last year children used microscopes and peered into fish tanks to observe how DNA changes can dramatically affect the heartbeat of zebra fish—one of the most powerful model organisms used to study vertebrate biology. We will make the science exciting and interesting for all! (Exact experiments TBD).

Come explore hands-on activities, great for ages K-5 and everyone! Science Delivered is a K-5 science education nonprofit that promotes elementary science and equity in education.

Oobleck (Non-Newtonian fluid)- Large aluminum trays filled with Oobleck (cornstarch, water, food coloring), and plastic toy animals next to the trays. Kids can poke the Oobleck with their finger or with a plastic toy. They will not be able to penetrate the Oobleck as it will behave like solid. If they slowly insert their finger or toy into the Oobleck, their finger/toy will go in easily and behave like a liquid. They can make a ball of Oobleck and then let it flow between their fingers.

Engaging, hands-on physics and astronomy demonstrations. Interact with undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs and faculty.