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Last updated 9-Oct-2019 (be sure to refresh your browser)
For many of our most devoted young fans Cool Science Carnival Day for Kids IS the festival! Carnival Day at UCCS (even though it wasn't called that yet) actually began in 2009, and was such a huge hit that it was a no-brainer when we decided to expand it the following year to create the multi-day celebration of all things STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) that we all enjoy now. Cool Science Carnival Day for Kids at UCCS is truly STEAM on steroids! We'll have exciting demonstration shows, talks, laboratory tours and demos, music, rockets, drones, animals, bugs, solar energy, telescopes & microscopes, rocks, fossils, robots, electronics, virtual reality computers, a fire engine, slime, an electric race car, liquid nitrogen ice cream & more. You can even build a real bridge and lots of other fun hands-on STEAM activities and exhibits for kids (primarily K-8th grades). All of this is presented by Cool Science and dozens of participating companies, schools, museums, clubs, nonprofits and other organizations from throughout eastern Colorado. It's all FREE (including parking) and fun for all ages! Check out some photos from previous Carnival Days. Don't forget that Carnival Day is just the first of 50 great Colorado Springs Cool Science Festival events for all ages: bird and nature walks; cooking classes (including one just for kids); star gazing; escape rooms; story time for preschoolers; planetarium shows; underground cave tours; "Dream Big", an inspiring STEAM movie on a giant screen; and much, much more! Check out the full 9-day schedule for more information. We still need lots of help to pull this off. Ask about volunteer opportunities for groups and individuals. |
If You're Going
What: Cool Science Carnival Day for Kids When: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 10am-4pm Where: Univ of Colorado- Colo Spgs 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Colorado Springs (map) Who: Primarily for kids K-8th (fun for all!) Why: Because STEAM Rocks! How: With your help, please donate below |
Planning Your Visit
- Pre-Registration: Carnival Day is FREE, but please register online to help us to know how many people are coming, kid's ages and how you found our about the event. It only takes a couple minutes.
- Pre-Arrival: If you like to prepare for big events in advance, download a copy of our Carnival Day Map/Flyer (1.5MB PDF) to plan your route through all the fun activities.
- Best Time to Come: We expect nearly 6,000 people to attend throughout the day, so it's always best to arrive earlier.
- Parking: All campus parking lots are FREE on Carnival Day, but fill up quickly, so check the campus map for more information. [Insider parking tip- Lot 103 is a little used parking lot next to the UCCS Farmhouse at the extreme east end of campus; start with all the SWELL activities there (see below), then ride the shuttle to the central campus for the rest of the activities!]
- Arrival: Our activities will be spread across much of the UCCS central main campus, inside and outside the University Center (UCTR), Centennial Hall (CENT), Gallogly Events Center (GEC), Engineering & Applied Science (ENGR) and Osborne Center (OCSE) (see campus map). We will have Information Tables with maps and volunteers to assist you at the main entrances to each of these buildings, but a good place to start is the lower University Center plaza on the east side of the El Pomar Center (EPC on the campus map).
- Food: It's going to be a long day of fun and exciting activities, so you may need to energize yourself. The Cafe 65 food court will be open from 11 am to 1 pm serving many different types of food, Clyde's serves pub food from 1 - 9 pm and Sanatorium Grounds coffee shop will be open until 1 pm. All are located in the University Center.
- Weather: We'll go rain or shine. If it is raining, snowing or extremely cold we will move many of the outside activities indoors.
- Social Media: Help us spread the word. Please share this page with your friends (Facebook "Like" and "Share" buttons above) and share your comments and photos with us on our Carnival Day Facebook event page (and be sure to like us on our Facebook page too). You can also tweet to us @CScoolscience. Use the hashtag #CSCSF2018.
- T-Shirts: Remember this day all year with our official Cool Science Festival T-shirt (designed by Rachel at Pike's Peak Community College). Children's and adult's sizes will be available at all Information Tables for a $15 donation to Cool Science (cash only).
* Please help us keep this event admission FREE *
Suggested donation $2/child ($5/family)
Donate at Information Tables (cash only) or online through ColoradoGives
Suggested donation $2/child ($5/family)
Donate at Information Tables (cash only) or online through ColoradoGives
Demonstrations, Shows, Workshops and Lab Tours:
Eddie Goldstein: "The Magical Math and Science Show" *NEW*
Show Times: Noon & 2:00 pm, (~50 minutes)
Just back from the Science Buskers Festival in Singapore, world-renowned science educator and magician, Eddie Goldstein, will mystify you with incredible feats of Science, Math, and Magic (all ages, Centennial 203).
Black's Magic: "Magic Mission to Mars"
Show Times: 11:00 am & 1:00 pm, (~50 minutes)
Master Magician and Astro-Nut Bruce Black blends comedy, magic and science principles to take students on an amazing magical journey to the Planet Mars (all ages, Centennial 203).
Cool Science: Chemistry Magic Show
Show Times: 10:00 am & 3:00 pm, (~50 minutes)
Always a fan favorite, experience the wonders of chemistry with Prof. Ron Furstenau in our signature magic show for all ages. "Potions" will change colors, explode and even freeze right before your eyes (all ages, Centennial 203).
Lori Bogren: "The Explosion Show"
Show Times: 10:30 am & 1:30 pm, (~45 minutes)
She's back to demonstrate the explosive power of chemistry! Watch balloons go boom, blowtorches in beakers, and flaming gummy bears (all ages, outside on University Center Upper Plaza).
US Air Force Academy Physics: "Physics is Phun!"
Show Times: Shows begin at the top of every hour all day (~30 minutes)
Watch a physics tour de force show featuring electricity, simple machines, a gravity-defying bicycle wheel, magnets and more. They'll even have liquid nitrogen to make ice cream! (all ages, University Center 302).
Sean Bogren: "Colorado Springs FPV Drone Show"
Show Times: Shows approximately every 30 minutes all day
Check out the state of the art in competitive racing drone aircraft. See them zoom across the sky and watch the live video from on-board cameras (all ages, outside El Pomar Plaza near clock tower).
UCCS Physics: Rock & Roll Band
Performance Times: Two 45-min sets starting about 11:30 am & 12:30 pm
Enjoy a group of UCCS faculty (mainly physics faculty) performing classic rock and roll music from a range of decades. (all ages, outside University Center Upper Plaza stage).
ClubChess!!: "Discover Chess!!"
"Discover Chess - Game of Kings" Lecture Times: 10:30 am; noon; 1:30 pm; 3:00 pm (~15 minutes)
"Learn Chess in 10 minutes" Lesson Times: 10:55 am; 11:40 am; 12:25 pm; 1:10 pm; 1:55 pm; 2:40 pm; 3:25 pm (~10 minutes)
"Medieval Celebrity Chess Match" Show Times: 11:15 am; 12:45 pm; 2:15 pm; 3:45 pm (~15 minutes)
Join ClubChess!! In their medieval castle and Discover chess like never before! Enjoy hands on demonstrations, educational lectues and entertaining performances by the 2016/17 Colorado State Scholastic chess team champions dressed in medieval costumes! Lots to see and do between shows as well (all ages, just inside Engineering & Applied Sciences building).
UCCS American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Club: Flight Simulators
Tour Times: Demonstrations run continuously all day
Test your pilot skills by flying planes on two realistic flight simulators (all ages, Osborne B213).
UCCS Electrical Engineering: Robotic Systems *NEW*
Tour Times: Demonstrations run continuously 10 am - 2 pm
Check out the cool robots and other experiments going on in the Electrical and Computer Engineering labs (all ages, Engineering Room 230).
UCCS Mountain Lion Motorsports: Electric Race Car
Demonstration Times: Demonstrations run continuously all day
Mountain Lion Motorsports, UCCS's own Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Electric (FSAEE) team will demonstrate some of the basic functionality of their Formula 1 style prototype race car, talk about creating an electric race car, and kids can build their own race car from craft sticks (all ages, Osborne A301).
UCCS Biofrontiers & UCCS Physics: "The Nanoparticle Show" and Lab Tour *NEW*
Tour Times: 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm, (~50 minutes, maximum 30 per tour)
Peek into the Biofrontiers and Physics labs, play with magnets, see a cell through state-of-the-art microscopes, and hear stories of nanoparticles being used in medicine and in computer technologies. (grades 1-12, meet at the Pendulum inside Osborne entrance).
UCCS Biology: DNA Extraction Lab
Lab Times: Starts at the top of every hour from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, (~50 minutes)
Smash strawberries and extract DNA to learn about the genetic building blocks that make up all life. You can even try to extract DNA from your own cheek cells (grades 1-12, Osborne B314).
UCCS Biology Mooney Lab: "Insectapalooza!" *NEW*
Lab Times: 10:00 am; 11:00 am; and noon (~50 minutes)
Celebrate all things creepy crawly with an exploration of living and preserved insects and non-insect arthropods to see and touch (if you dare!) Includes a scavenger hunt to explore the diversity on display. (all ages, Osborne B301).
UCCS Biology: Natural History Museum *NEW*
Tour Times: Throughout the day
Come visit the UCCS Natural History Museum, home to more than 700 skulls, skeletons and mounts of animals from Saber-toothed tigers to hippos, mountain lions and more! (all ages, Osborne B402).
UCCS Chemistry & Biochemistry: Enzyme Lab *NEW*
Lab Times: 10:00 am & Noon (for K-4th grades); 11:00 am & 1:00 pm (5th-8th grades)
Experiment in the lab with enzymes from your own saliva, then view a computer model of these tiny molecules and see some of the enzyme research taking place (grades 1-12, Centennial 106).
UCCS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Engineering and Prototyping Shop Tours
Tour Times: 11:00 am; noon; 1:00 pm
Check out our robots, penny catapults and 3-D printers, then tour the rest of the tools and machines in the engineering and prototyping shop (all ages, Osborne A311).
UCCS Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory: Them Bones, Them Bones...
Tour Times: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Tour the lab to learn how we identify individuals at risk of fracture due to osteoporosis or related conditions, then make your own "spine segments" out of candy (all ages, Osborne B206).
UCCS Sustainability, Wellness & Learning (SWELL): "Heritage Grain Exploration: the Science of Sourdough"
Workshop Times: Throughout the day
Stop by the UCCS Farmhouse for a SWELL time and dive in head first into the world of grains! We'll have many fun activities going on throughout the day so you can experience the life of grain. Start with threshing/cleaning, milling, flaking, baking, cooking and finish it off with tasting. Get your hands dirty in the kitchen making your own planet friendly energy bites. (All ages, UCCS Farmhouse, take the free shuttle from University Center lower plaza, or park in Lot 103). [Note: our farm is home to a hive of very peaceful bees, but if anyone has any allergies please be sure to have your EpiPen on hand.]
ZOMETOOL: "Shadows from Hyperspace" *NEW*
Workshop Times: Sessions starting every 30 minutes at t:00 and t:30
In this interactive workshop led by CEO Paul Hildebrandt you will use a free ZOMETOOL starter kit to learn a little quantum math by building a square, then a cube, dragging it through space, connecting the dots and repeating to create a shadow of a 4-dimensional cube. Boom- blow your mind! (4th grade & up, Osborne A206).
Tour Times: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Tour the lab to learn how we identify individuals at risk of fracture due to osteoporosis or related conditions, then make your own "spine segments" out of candy (all ages, Osborne B206).
UCCS Sustainability, Wellness & Learning (SWELL): "Heritage Grain Exploration: the Science of Sourdough"
Workshop Times: Throughout the day
Stop by the UCCS Farmhouse for a SWELL time and dive in head first into the world of grains! We'll have many fun activities going on throughout the day so you can experience the life of grain. Start with threshing/cleaning, milling, flaking, baking, cooking and finish it off with tasting. Get your hands dirty in the kitchen making your own planet friendly energy bites. (All ages, UCCS Farmhouse, take the free shuttle from University Center lower plaza, or park in Lot 103). [Note: our farm is home to a hive of very peaceful bees, but if anyone has any allergies please be sure to have your EpiPen on hand.]
ZOMETOOL: "Shadows from Hyperspace" *NEW*
Workshop Times: Sessions starting every 30 minutes at t:00 and t:30
In this interactive workshop led by CEO Paul Hildebrandt you will use a free ZOMETOOL starter kit to learn a little quantum math by building a square, then a cube, dragging it through space, connecting the dots and repeating to create a shadow of a 4-dimensional cube. Boom- blow your mind! (4th grade & up, Osborne A206).
Hands-on Activity Stations:
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Academy for Advanced and Creative Learning:
Design and build a shock absorbing lunar module to protect two marshmallow "astronauts" as it drops to the ground. Aerospace Employees Radio Organization (AEØRO: Check out AEØRO amateur radio club's new emergency communications trailer and use the club's radios to talk to other 'hams' on several amateur radio bands. Aiken Audubon Society: Make a decorative a window cling to help prevent birds accidentally crashing into your windows at home. *NEW* American Guild of Organists (COS Chapter): Ever wondered how pipe organs work? Learn how first-hand by building and playing a real, working pipe organ. *NEW* AIAA (Rocky Mountain Section): Kitchen Rocket Science - use every-day chemicals and household items to understand rocket combustion. *NEW* American Medical Response: Peek inside a real ambulance and find out what emergency medical technicians do. American Numismatic Association (Money Museum): See and learn about the elements that are used to make coins by playing fun measurement and math games. Autism Vision of Colorado: Bend light with water to learn about refraction and create an amazing optical illusion. *NEW* Beekeeping with Leigh Gaddy: Ask Leigh everything you ever wanted to know about bees. How do bees talk to each other? How is honey made? Do bees even have knees? Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology: Be a hero to animals and learn how veterinarians care for them. Buell Children's Museum: Use a straw and your own air power to mix paint and create works of art in this fun, no-mess activity. Cave of the Winds Mountain Park: Learn about the geology and chemistry of cave systems . Cheyenne Mountain Zoo: [Note: 11 am to 3 pm only] Interact with live animals and touchable biofacts from the ZOOMobile. You might meet snakes, hedgehogs, lizards, or who knows what else. Children's Hospital Colorado: Check out the brand new Children's Hospital Colorado ambulance and see what it's like to be an EMT. *NEW* Civil Air Patrol - Colorado Springs Cadet Squadron: Cut out your own paper rocket, add a nose cone and fins then use a compressed air launcher to blast off! Code Wizards Academy: Learn to code short applications and then use them to control computers, drive various robots. *NEW* Colorado Parks & Wildlife: Experience why the wildlife and fish native to Colorado are so important at this hands-on activity station with live fish,. Colorado Springs Astronomical Society: Safely observe the sun's surface and atmosphere- 93 million miles away- using our special filtered telescopes. It's more than just a yellow ball! Colorado Springs Fire Department: Check out a real fire truck and learn about the equipment firefighters use to save lives. Colorado Springs Rocket Society (COSROCS): Build a quality Estes Rocket Model that will take to the skies! Rocket Society members will be on stand-by to help with the construction and to answer any questions you may have on rockets. Colorado Springs Utilities: Two different stations: learn about water conservation with an interactive water table and other fun activities; and learn about electrical safety with an interactive model that shocks Safety City with 10,000 volts! CU Denver STEAM Team: Use tweezers and small scissors to race a surgery robot (in a video) that is dissecting a grape. *NEW* Cool Science: Sound Exploration Lab: Learn about sound, waves and music as you play with some of our coolest stuff. Bean Boat Challenge: Design an aluminum foil boat and test how many beans it will hold without sinking. Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream (with Royal Crest Dairy): we're making tasty ice cream in less than 2 minutes at -322°F. Convergence Game Parts: Watch a real 3-D printer at work and learn about some of the very cool things they can make. *NEW* Coronado High School FIRST Robotics Team: See real robots designed and built by high school students. You might even get to drive one though a designated course! Dakota Ridge Engineering: Construct a real bridge originally designed by Leonardo da Vinci, using no tools and no nails or screws. *NEW* Dinosaur Resource Center: "Let's Talk About Dinosaurs!" with skulls, claws and all kinds of fun dinosaur stuff. Donor Alliance/Donate Life Colorado: Learn about organ and tissue transplants and play a life-sized "Operation" game. *NEW* Etio Chiropractic: Use surface electromyography (sEMG) to test your muscle balance and learn how to improve performance. Falcon School District 49: Step on board the IGNITE Expeditions Mobile Learning Lab, the first educational school bus in Colorado equipped with augmented and virtual reality stations. *NEW* Girl Scouts of Colorado: Engineer craft stick launchers to fling Q-Tips and other small items into the air. *NEW* Inventa Academy: Produce AC and DC electricity, launch bean bags and use a new LEGO robot to serve lemonade! Keysight Technologies: Experience signals in the sky with activities such as logic puzzles, an oscilloscope demonstration with musical instruments, an LED light show about digital signals and programming, hand-held (Dino-Lite) microscopes, and more! Launch High School: "Crush It!" Watch how differences in pressure (by changing temperature) can have unexpected results. *NEW* Lewis Palmer Middle School: Search for microscopic living organisms on a pond water safari and learn about their roles in ecosystems. *NEW* Little Richard's Toy Store: Play with some of the science and engineering toys that you'll find in the store, including magnets, circuits and instant snow. *NEW* |
Lockheed Martin:
Ride a rocket sled powered by your own human energy, try out some virtual reality goggles and learn about 3-D printing. Mark McGough: Learn about artificial intelligence and quantum computing while playing with a Tesla coil, magnets, rolling pool balls, and spinning tops. Martin Marietta: Learn about real construction materials and methods in this hands-on activity station with asphalt, concrete, and aggregate. Missile Defense Agency: Real engineers will answer your questions about rockets and missiles and help you build hoop gliders. *NEW* National Space Science & Technology Institute: Check out the Mobile Earth & Space Observatory (MESO), with telescopes and several more hands-on activities. Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center: Meet and greet great raptors- hawks, owls, falcons, and vultures- in person and learn how the NWDC rehabilitates sick, injured, and orphaned birds of prey. Peak Vista Community Health Center: Try some cool chemistry with baking soda and balloons! Pikes Peak Community College Pre-Engineering: Try out some cool ping pong ball launchers created by college students for a class design challenge. *NEW* Pikes Peak Community College STEM Club: Play with a new game, the Turing Tumble, that challenges kids to build a working computer powered by rolling marbles. *NEW* Pikes Peak Library District (Children's Dept.): Shake, rattle, and roll as you learn about earthquakes by designing a building and testing it during the "big one." Pikes Peak Mycological Society: Explore the magical kingdom of fungi: how mushrooms grow, their role in the ecosystem, and new exciting science behind mycoremediation and human health. Pikes Peak Regional Science Fair: Middle and high school students will present their science fair projects and explain the difference between a science demonstration and an experiment. Planet Walk Colorado Springs: Walk a scale model of the inner planets of our solar system and learn about the Sun and planets along the way. *NEW* QuestBotics: Learn math, robots, arts and coding with a cool new toy that uses no computer or screen to program a robot. *NEW* Rocky Mountain Robotics, FIRST Team 662: Watch a 130 pound student-built robot in action and even get a chance to drive the robot yourself. We'll also have lots of spare parts for you to create something of your own design. Royal Crest Dairy and Cool Science: Learn about dairy products while making tasty ice cream in less than 2 minutes using liquid nitrogen at -322°F. St. Mary's High School: Tackle the PVC Pipe Challenge and build a PVC structure for a marble to travel top to bottom as slowly as possible. *NEW* Simply Kids Dental: Improve your brushing and flossing skills flossing skills practicing on Duplo blocks with Play-Doh "food" and watch how dentists fill a tooth! Toys2Life: Use sensors to make simple toys and dolls talk to each other with characters kids create themselves. *NEW* UCCS AIAA Student Club: Rockets for all ages: three different rocket building activities depending on how experienced a rocket scientist you are. UCCS Anthropology Club: Check out human artifacts, as well as musical instruments and live performances of synthesizer music. *NEW* UCCS Cognitive Development Lab: Play a memory matching game to discover how you remember visual and verbal information. *NEW* UCCS HOSA Future Health Professionals: You're the doctor as you learn to use a pulse oximeter, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, and other real medical instruments. *NEW* UCCS HyperFalcos Hyperloop Team: Watch our little "puppy pods" race around a mini hyperloop hi-tech transportation track and learn about our design for the 2020 Hyperloop Pod competition. UCCS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Use Solidworks computer aided design (CAD) to create a simple solid model then bring it to life on a 3D printer. (Osborne Room A213) UCCS National Society of Black Engineers: Play with some cool robots and see computer code that makes them work. *NEW* UCCS Physics and Energy Science: Learn what the large Foucalt pendulum in the Osborne lobby shows and how it works. UCCS Simulation Center: Meet a robotic child manikin named Charlotte from UCCS's Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Learning Center and help keep her from going into shock. You can also "drive" a telepresence robot located across campus. UCCS Society of Women Engineers: Use popsicle sticks, glue, string and beads to create your own Newton's Cradle physics toy. *NEW* UCCS Student Members American Chemical Society: Learn about acids, bases, pH and dry ice while creating a reversible rainbow of colors. UCCS Tree Ring Lab: Determine the age of a tree by examining its annual growth rings, and find out what they cal also tell us about past climates and environments. *NEW* UpaDowna: Learn how to make your own super-cooling bandana with the same hi-tech polymer used in baby diapers. *NEW* U.S. Air Force Academy Dept of Mathematical Sciences: Several activities (appropriate for various ages) including Mobius bands, origami solids, and explorations of numbers, geometry, and probability. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Learn how to recycle, compost and save food with fun games and activities. Western Museum of Mining and Industry: Learn the the physics of gravity classification by density while panning for gold just like miners in the 1800's. *NEW* YoungBotBuilders: Check out our LEGO® Great Ball Contraption, a Rube Goldberg like machine which receives miniature balls from one module and passes them to another module. *NEW* |
Thanks to all of our Cool Science volunteers and the participating organizations that make Carnival Day possible!
Disclaimer: Please be aware that by attending this event, you consent to your likeness being used, without compensation, in photography for use in any and all media, whether known or subsequent. You release Cool Science, its successors, assigns and licensees from any liability whatsoever of any nature.
Disclaimer: Please be aware that by attending this event, you consent to your likeness being used, without compensation, in photography for use in any and all media, whether known or subsequent. You release Cool Science, its successors, assigns and licensees from any liability whatsoever of any nature.
