Summer Fun at Virginia Air & Space Center

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The Virginia Air and Space Center has a lot happening this summer, here are some of the highlights!

Engineer it! an Imagination Playground: is a new and innovative playground that allows families to have fun creating and learning together. This new playground equipment system encourages learning, social development, movement, and above all, FUN! VASC’s new exhibit for young children helps to inspire young builders in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) while allowing them to be creative and imaginative.

The exhibit also features larger- than-life blocks for giant scale buildings and table top blocks for smaller hands. Kids of all ages will be able to experience a whole new world- engineering new structures using the curved blocks, attachments and more! From animals to robots, houses to rocket ships, kids are encouraged to think outside the box, while working together. 

The Solarium at VASC: Reaching New Heights will immerse students, teachers, preservice teachers, and life-long learners into the Sun’s atmosphere and give them an up-close and personal look into the world of heliophysics (the study of the sun and its interactions with Earth) and helioseismology (the study of the propagation of wave oscillations in the Sun). Journey into the Sun’s atmosphere and explore the unique features of the Sun, creating an out-of-this-world experience. Be mesmerized by the Sun’s dancing atmosphere while you are standing next to, and listening to, the sounds of the Sun!

The Robotics Lab at VASC is a new state-of-the-art laboratory that will offer students and teachers with opportunities to engage themselves with hands-on robotics technology. Through this new application, children will be encouraged to become creative thinkers and lifelong learners. Students will participate in competitions with missions related to NASA’s current projects, and explore the world of 3D printing and how it supports the International Space Station and future missions. Robotics is used to enhance the science and math curriculum and also promotes problem solving, critical thinking, imagination, creativity and team building.

Robots 3D, an IMAX film, takes audiences on a lively tour around the world to meet the most remarkable robots in Europe, Japan and the United States. RoboThespian, narrated by actor, comedian and filmmaker Simon Pegg, gives you rare access to labs, where researchers are striving to replicate human capabilities. Robots 3D explores the latest in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, humanoid cognition and human-robot interaction (HRI), as well as exciting developments in cloud robotics. Robots 3D gives audiences a fascinating and exciting look at what makes us human, how far machines must really go to look and act like us, and how humanoids are already changing our world.

For more information on these programs visit vasc.org