This 90-minute tour provides a unique opportunity to learn how innovative engineering and optical technology melds with manufacturing techniques to produce the largest and most advanced giant (8.4 meters / 27 ft) telescope mirrors in the world on the University of Arizona campus. Visitors will see the unparalleled technology and revolutionary processes in making the...
Take a relaxing look at the night sky as one of our skilled "Console Captains" gives you a guided tour of the stars, planets, constellations and current events happening in the night sky. Audience: General, all ages Style: Live presentation about constellations and astronomy Planetarium Tickets Adults: $14 Children (ages 3-15): $10 Children ages 2 and under:...
Come meet new friends and have fun building with LEGOs. Blast off into outer space as we build spaceships, space stations, and rovers. Whether you're designing a rover to explore Mars or imagining a galaxy far, far away, the possibilities are endless! Participants ages 6-12 will have the option to complete the challenges provided or...
How big is the solar system? How closely are you and I related? How old is the earth? We will put to good use everything we have learned about exponential functions, geometry and geometric series to find fascinating and surprising answers to these questions. The goal of this high school workshop is to show that...