Exhibits travel throughout the province and showcase current science in industry and everyday life. Designed to be set up in small spaces you will often find them in libraries, community centres or fairs. They present science through hands-on, interactive experiences and are great to visit with your children.
Exhibits can be booked for just $100, for shipping and handling.
To book an exhibit, bookings.sciencealberta.org or call (403)220-0077 ext. 221.
NEW: Kelvin Adventures, Flight into the Body
Smaller than microscopic, Kelvin is nano-sized! Learn all about the scale of nano in this interactive game. The body becomes infected, Kelvin’s mothership releases him and his nanobot into the body to fight the infection. Can you help Kelvin chase down the viruses before they spread?
Made possible through funding from the Alberta Ingenuity Fund.
TransMission
Can you deliver the power? This digital challenge lets you explore power structures and link them together to make a power grid. When you’re successful, you light up the city!
Made possible through funding from the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO).
Fission Impossible
How does nuclear fission generate power? To find out, you must move a free neutron correctly through a fuel rod to create fission. Navigate carefully and you’ll release the energy you need for power.
Made possible through funding from Bruce Power.
Reaction Action
How does a lump of material turn into energy? Check out combustion and gasification, and explore the potential of these processes. Use your product collector to collect the products before they turn to waste!
Made possible through funding from the Alberta Ingenuity Fund.
UPDATED: Hurry Hard!
Think you can draw to the button? Learn about friction and rotation – how a rock curls. If you master all the levels in this curling challenge, you’ll release Rocky from his mountainous domain.
Made possible through funding from NSERC PromoScience and Alberta Advanced Education and Technology.
Breakdown! The Making of Ethanol
In this activity, you make your own fuel. Match the right enzymes to produce ethanol. The higher your score, the more powerful your vehicle can be – you can fuel a family vehicle, a race car or even an airplane.
Made possible through funding from Husky Energy.
What’s Fuelling Your Future?
Learn about the many uses of a common crop grown in Alberta. Driving through gleaming canola fields, you’ll be asked to make choices about how canola can be used to make alternative products.
Made possible through funding from Alberta Canola Producers Commission.
Slap Shot!
Will your puck make the score? In Slap Shot! you predict and then test which puck will be the most stable in flight for your hockey game: a hollow puck, a medium-weight puck or a heavy puck.
Made possible through funding from RBC Foundation and Edmonton Oilers Foundation.
Mystery of the Missing Milk
Help Farmer Joe discover how to increase his cows’ milk production. With this exhibit, you choose different types of feed and see the results of a cow’s diet on its production of milk.
Made possible through funding from Alberta Milk.
Top Cow
Can you make your own ice cream? Your challenge in Top Cow is to choose the right ingredients and the right type of process to make ice cream, cheese or yogurt. If it goes wrong, it’s goop!
Made possible through funding from Alberta Milk.