Wednesday, February 25th - Every year, HCECF celebrates Engineer's Week (e-week) with a special day of engineering fun. (materials fee is $5.00 per person)
The 2009 e-week line up of engineering workshops includes:
*Mentos and soda explosions - you've seen it before, but not like this!
*Flinking Challenge - Do you know what it is? Can you do it? Why would you want to? Is it safe?
*Egg Astronauts - Is your rocket safe? How high will it go? Can it hit the landing pad? Will your egg survive? Do you even want it to?
*Catastrophic Bridge Destruction demos - Enjoy watching film clips of the 1940's Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster? Join us as HCECF's SECME balsa wood bridge teams completely demolishes this years bridges.
*Chalk It Up! Engineering Art - Your best engineering blueprints, structures and ideas in chalk!
2009 Scheduled Engineering Workshops for Learning in the Park
Part of the Annual Homeschool Drum Building Campout
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Friday. May - 6:00 pm - 6:45 - Pocket Flashlights (all ages, little kid friendly) - Explores how design relates to function. Essential for the ever popular campout game of 'flashlight tag'. ($5)
Saturday, May - 9:00 am - 10:45 am - TBA ($10)
Saturday, May - 11:00 am - Noon - TBA ($5)
Saturday, May - 1:00 am - 1:45 am - TBA ($5)
Saturday, May - 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm - Q & A session w/ the engineers. (Free)
Sunday, May - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - TBA ($5)
Sunday, May - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Chocolate Asphalt (all ages) - explores basic engineering principles and terms by making a model of asphalt pavement. The result is EDIBLE! (potential allergy warning - chocolate & nuts - ask if there is an allergy concern prior to registering. Participants must bring a canned good to this workshop, which will be donated to a local food bank via HEARTS. ($5, plus a canned good)
Wednesday, September 16th - All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here... it's HCECF's annual Pirate Faire and field day with engineering fun done Pirate Style in a way only the crews of HCECF's pirate ships "freaks" and "geeks". Which crew will ye be joining are crew matey? Who will win? And more importantly, who has the best pirate garb?