Tagging Hummingbirds

Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve
How can something that only weighs as much as a nickel be a huge inspiration to engineers and provide a great benefit to the environment? Join us at Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve as hummingbirds are studied and tagged.
8-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.

Cyber Security

n-ABLE
68-NI-02 Explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information. 8-AP-12 Document programs in order to make them easier to follow, test, and debug. 8-AP-10 Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.
What is Phishing and how do we keep our private information safe? Join Zion at n-ABLE to learn about cyber security and how to teach your parents to play video games.

Discovery Place

Ch-Ch-Changes – Rainbow Reaction and Elephant Toothpaste

Be amazed by colorful and eruptive chemical compounds with Hailey at Discovery Place.

8.P.1.3 Compare physical changes such as size, shape and state to chemical changes that are the result of a chemical reaction to include changes in temperature, color, formation of a gas or precipitate.

Women in Engineering

NC State University/College of Engineering

What does engineering, electromagnetic fields and credit cards have in common? Riley discovers just how credit cards work today at NC State University School of Engineering.

6.P.1.2 Explain the relationship among visible light, the electromagnetic spectrum, and sight

7.P.2.3 Recognize that energy can be transferred from one system to another when two objects push or pull on each other over a distance (work) and electrical circuits require a complete loop through which an electrical current can pass.

EX.8.P.2.2 Describe the results of applying electrical energy

Sound

Flight 7 Studios

What are sound waves? What is the difference between how an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar amplify sound? Today JT visits a recording studio and raps his way through learning about sound.

6.P.1 Understand the properties of waves and the wavelike property of energy in earthquakes, light and sound waves.

Science of Baseball

Science of Baseball

What does force and gravity have to do with baseball? Today Tim visits the Coastal Plains Baseball League to find out how pitchers use science from the mound.

NC.6.SP.5 Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.

7.P.1 Understand motion, the effects of forces on motion and the graphical representations of motion.

NC.7.SP.1 Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population

NC.8.SP.1 Construct a graph or table from given categorical data and compare data categorized in the graph or table.