Activities

March 2012 / April 2012

: Holiday Programme coming soon...

December 2011 / January 2012

Spaghetti Challenge: The Tower of Pisa, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of Spaghetti... Spaghetti? We want to see who can build the tallest tower using spaghetti and marshmallows.
Balancing Nails: Can you nail this seemingly impossible challenge?
Giant Floor Map: Paris has the Eiffel Tower, London - Buckingham Palace, New York - the Statue of Liberty. What about South Africa? Can you place famous South African buildings in the correct South African city?
Them Bones - Paper Skeleton: The hip bone's connected to the leg bone, the leg bone's connected to the knee bone...
Design and Construct - Building Model Kits: Enter the world of modelling and build your own car, kite or aeroplane.
Capture a Structure - Photographic Workshop: If the exposure is right anything can develop. Join our photographic workshop and take your favourite print home.
Bob the Builder - Bridge Building: Be an engineer and bridge the gap. Can you construct a bridge with straws? Find out how.
Be Smart - Treasure Hunt: Are you smarter than an investigator? Follow the clues and find the treasure.
Building a Submarine: Metals sink, fish swim... but what makes a submarine float? Let's build one and find out.
Cleaning Oil Spills: "Oil spill! Eeek!" We'll take a look at good ways to clean it all up.
Three Layer Float: Liquids move, liquids flow. Some are fast, others are slow. Mix them and watch them float, separate or sink. Crazy acting liquids don't you think?
DNA Extractions: Onions! Can you find DNA in onions by using household detergents?
Blow Up a Balloon with Yeast: Freshly home baked bread, Hmmmmm. Ever wondered why there are holes in bread? Come find out.
Making a Paper Clip Float: Is this possible? A paperclip floats on water? Come to Lucky's Lab to find out more.
Making Soap: Splish, splash! Do you like to make bubbles? Come learn how to make your own soap.

LEGO Activities

Build the Future: This will be the biggest LEGO build ever in Cape Town. The aim is to have the most people ever, building one display out of LEGO – Build the Future in the Cape Town Science Centre.
Free Build Challenge: This is a free LEGO build session. During this time, planned build activities will take place from tower building to bridge building.
LEGO Movie Time: Movie time. Different LEGO Movies are on offer!
Ninjago Challenge: The exciting Ninjago challenge in a box. Different challenges and rounds to compete in during this stimulating LEGO session.
Parent and Child Challenge: The activities during this LEGO build will require both parent and child to work together. A highly enjoyable session with planned activities from tower building to bridge construction.
Duplo Free Build: A free build with LEGO DUPLO bricks. Create cars, towers or your own construction and see whose will be the tallest, fastest or just have fun. Build with the large LEGO soft brick and take part in a mini-Olympics.
Crazy Action Contraptions: From the supercharged Speedster to the Squeezeclaw Grabber to the Wall Rocket Racer — all these contraptions spin, stretch, speed, or otherwise spring into action. Try your hand at building these cool contraptions. A book of the 16 projects and the custom selection of LEGO® bricks to enable you to build all these structures at home will be on sale.
Robotics Training - First Steps Training: The session will cover basic programming of a robot to move, and use touch and light sensors. Please note that this workshop does not include a robot to take home at the end of the workshop.
Parent and Child Robot Build: The session will cover basic programming of a robot to move, and to use touch and light sensors. Please note that this workshop does not include a robot to take home at the end of the workshop.
Robotics Training - Green Energy Challenge: This training is based on LEGO Education’s training for robotics and therefore is based on international training. The training will cover the following programming aspects of robotics:
   Drive Forward
   Detect Distance
   Detect Dark Line
   Hit Red Ball
   Follow A Line
   Calibrate Sensor
   Further training activities
At the end of the training, a challenge is set to see if what has been learnt can be put into practice. A robot will need to be built to run and perform certain missions. Each of the missions scores points.
Racers Challenge: Build your racer and see who can get to the finish line first.