Make the most of your special event with Science Alberta Foundation’s traveling exhibits. The exhibits showcase current science in industry and everyday life. Suitable for smaller spaces, such as libraries, schools, museums and foyers, exhibits are self-contained science concepts that do not require on-site facilitation.
Breakdown! The Making of Ethanol
Ever wonder how we get ethanol from starch? It’s all in the science! Visitors to this exhibit are engaged in game play to match the right enzymes to specific locations along long starch chains thus producing glucose that is then fermented to make ethanol. Depending on your ability to choose the right enzymes and make the match, the amount of glucose you produce will be converted to ethanol that can fuel a family vehicle, a race car or an airplane. Challenge your friends to beat your score!
What’s Fuelling Your Future?
This interactive exhibit introduces learners to the many uses of a common crop grown in Alberta. Visitors embark on a digital driving adventure through gleaming yellow canola fields and are asked to make choices about how canola can be used to make alternative products. By completing the challenge visitors discover the many uses and products that can be derived from canola. Made possible through funding from Alberta Canola Producers Commission
Slap Shot!
This Exhibit provides learners of all ages a digital opportunity to experiment to choose the best puck for the hockey game.
In the course of Slap Shot!, visitors predict, then test which puck will be the most stable in flight for their hockey game: a hollow puck, a medium weight puck or a heavy puck. The drag on a puck in flight can cause a puck to be unstable, lose speed and fly off course. The right weight of puck will help keep it stable in flight. A Team Canada hockey player tests your puck choice with her slapshot. Will your puck make the score?
Hurry Hard!
Hurry Hard! provides learners of all ages a digital opportunity to experiment to choose the best ice surface for the curling sheet.
In the course of the Science of Curling game, visitors predict, then test which ice surface will get our curling rock to the button: smooth ice, moderately pebbled ice or heavily pebbled ice. Getting just the right surface will let the rock slow down and curl. Watch while a curler throws the rock down your ice surface choice. Will your ice surface land on the button?
Mystery of the Missing Milk
This digital exhibit has visitors helping Farmer Joe discover the affects of a cow’s diet on milk production. Visitors meet Farmer Joe and discover how to help him increase his cows’ milk production. They also choose different types of feed and see the results of their choices. Made possible through funding from Alberta Milk Producers
Dairy Dilemma
This hands-on, interactive exhibit lets visitors determine if a truck full of milk, on its way to a processing plant, is safe by testing it for antibiotics. If the milk passes the tests, it goes to the processor and participants also pasteurize it. The exhibit highlights the importance that milk is safety-tested even before it can enter a processing plant. Made possible through funding from Alberta Milk Producers
Top Cow
A digital exhibit where visitors act as game show contestants creating digital versions of ice cream, cheese and yogurt by using the right ingredients and by choosing the type of process. If all goes wrong, the product created goes in the garbage, not to the grocery store! Made possible through funding from Alberta Milk Producers