Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Tunnel building on the program at Everett's Imagine Children's Museum
Kids will dig it: Psssst. Hey, moms and dads. Your kids can learn a little something about building and being an engineer but don't tell them that. Just tell them they're going to have lots of fun.
The program is "i-engineers," and it's all about discovering the fun of building tunnels. And it's happening all day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday at Imagine Children's Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett.
The program is free with museum admission: free for children 12 months and under and $7 for general admission, children over 12 months and adults.
For building tunnels, each kid selects a material that's either clay, paper or cardboard -- no toilet paper tubes please, that's too obvious -- and constructs a tunnel that when a rubber ball is put through it, the ball will go at least a foot past the entrance. If the child is a successful engineer, he or she gets to take the ball home.
"The tunnel has to be angled, so they are learning how much angling does it need for it to go a foot past the exit," said the museum's creative arts and volunteer manager Rainere, who goes by just her first name. "It's all discovery and about what would be the best material. It's trial and error."
Helping Rainere on Friday will be Christina Curtis, an engineering student and a member of Everett Community College's Society of Women Engineers club.
The museum's "i-engineers" program is running every month through February and is sponsored by the Fluke Corp. Future engineering events include geodesic domes on July 19, "Veggie Power" on Aug. 13 and "Shake, Rattle and Roll Bridge Construction" on Sept. 6.
Herald Writer Theresa Goffredo,
tgoffredo@heraldnet.com
The program is "i-engineers," and it's all about discovering the fun of building tunnels. And it's happening all day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday at Imagine Children's Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett.
The program is free with museum admission: free for children 12 months and under and $7 for general admission, children over 12 months and adults.
For building tunnels, each kid selects a material that's either clay, paper or cardboard -- no toilet paper tubes please, that's too obvious -- and constructs a tunnel that when a rubber ball is put through it, the ball will go at least a foot past the entrance. If the child is a successful engineer, he or she gets to take the ball home.
"The tunnel has to be angled, so they are learning how much angling does it need for it to go a foot past the exit," said the museum's creative arts and volunteer manager Rainere, who goes by just her first name. "It's all discovery and about what would be the best material. It's trial and error."
Helping Rainere on Friday will be Christina Curtis, an engineering student and a member of Everett Community College's Society of Women Engineers club.
The museum's "i-engineers" program is running every month through February and is sponsored by the Fluke Corp. Future engineering events include geodesic domes on July 19, "Veggie Power" on Aug. 13 and "Shake, Rattle and Roll Bridge Construction" on Sept. 6.
Herald Writer Theresa Goffredo,
tgoffredo@heraldnet.com
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