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Zap, Grab, Ooze & Squeeze!

June 16 – 20, M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Harding Community Center, 3096 Harding St, Carlsbad, CA  92008 [map]

Encounter Giant Electric Sparks, Monster Magnets, Glowing Lava & Walking, Chomping Plants.

Make soda cans spark and walk with electric charge. Generate giant indoor lightning bolts! Experiment with the hair-raising Van De Graff Generator. Make your own battery and test circuits. Help split water molecules! Use magnetic levitation. Try to overcome monster magnets’ pull.

Test electromagnet’s power to lift you! Create your own collections of awesome minerals. Assemble sedimentation tanks. Crack open hidden geode crystals. Watch walking seeds! Dissect incredible flowers and see plants eat meat!

Fizz, Flames, and Super Substances!

June 23 – 27 , M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Harding Community Center, 3096 Harding St, Carlsbad 92008 [map]

Investigate Crazy-Fast-Reacting Chemicals, Incredibly Complex Cells, Gruesome Germs and the Wild-Looking Microscopic Universe

Observe metals burning and make foaming invisible gasses. Create indoor snowstorms for a summer snowball fight! Concoct liquid nitrogen smoothies. Mix up your own Oobleck slime. Grow mold from between your toes!

Check out wild-looking microscopic creatures! Get close-up to gross bugs and spiders. Watch eggs explode and help launch potatoes. Operate a real steam engine.

3-2-1 Countdown to Liftoff!

July 21 – 25, M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Stage Coach Community Center, | 3420 Camino De Los Coches, Carlsbad 92009 [map]

Build, Prepare and Launch Your Own Rocket!

Explore planets, galaxies, black holes, quasars and beyond! Conduct experiments that simulate actual conditions on the planets in our solar system. Uncover the secret Alien Copper Theft in U.S. pennies. Check out unearthly microscopic creatures! Watch Venetian Dry Ice cause coins to shiver, a giant faucet to leak, and a cannon to blast its charge 300 feet!

Stand back from Mystery Metal’s violent reaction to ordinary water. Beware a Rocket-Powered Car blasting to smithereens! Observe super-cooled Liquid Nitrogen freeze items 300 degrees, including a Liquid Nitrogen frozen treat! Build and prepare for blast-off your own high-soaring rocket!

Flyin' High 'n' Divin' Deep!

July 28 –  Aug 1 , M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM| Harding Community Center, 3096 Harding St, Carlsbad 92008 [map]

Discover Amazing Air Pressure, Feathered Friends & Flying Machines, Wild Divers, Density & the Underwater Realm

Conquer the skies like the Wright Brothers! Test wing shapes and fly planes 300 feet! Lift people and crush cans with air pressure. Make whipped cream get giant and balloons huge with vacuum power!

Make a diver that rises and sinks on command! Observe buoyancy and scuba gear in action. Create your own liquid density tank. Take home a unique collection of sea shells! Build and launch your own screaming-fast hand-launched glider!

Incredible Edibles & Ooey Gooey Stuff

Aug 4 - 8 , M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Harding Community Center, 3096 Harding St, Carlsbad 92008 [map]

Funtastic Science for Early Years (ages 4-8)

Time to get gooey! Specially designed for Early Elementary Scientists grades PreK-3. Students conduct dozens of Hands-On Activities with our enthusiastic instructors, including forming Stringy-Sticky-Super-Substances, mixing up Boingy Bouncy Balls and Stirring Up “Soquid” (part solid, part liquid).

Use your own Magnet Rock to mine iron from sand. Make every Edible Experiment imaginable, including Tectonic Cookies, Metamorphic Sandwiches, Igneous syrup, and Talking Rocks as well as Dirt Cake and Super Shivery Smoothie. Fun and exciting Games, Stories and Songs for all!

Flash! Crash! Five Senses Alive!

Aug 18 - 22 , M-F | $179R/$189NR | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Calavera Hills Community Center, 2997 Glasgow Dr, Carlsbad 92010 [map]

Explore the World of Rainbow Light, Intricate Eyes, Strange Sounds, Weird Ears & Nifty Nerves

Zap an electric pickle! Slice with a real laser. Experience optical illusions and black light glow. Check out intricacies of human & animal eyes & ears. See sound form water waves and crack glass!

Use vibration to make objects dance. Watch bats and dolphins "see" with sound. Encounter amazing inventions of geniuses like Bell and Edison. Test your nerve reactions and try to fool your senses.