Teens

What have we got for teens? Tons. Try your hand at painting with light, check out a movie made entirely in a 3-D world, discover how insect-ingesting plants trap their prey, see highlights from the International Rubik’s Cube competition, watch Dr. MegaVolt® tame lightning—and more.

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Dr. MegaVolt® under the Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda

Watch the amazing Dr. MegaVolt make and tame lightening at the Exploratorium.

Destination Mars

Check out this machinima (a film made entirely in a 3-D virtual world), which shows what a meteor crashing onto the surface of Mars might look like.

Venus Flytrap Feast

How do those insect-ingesting plants trap and devour their prey?

Cow’s Eye Dissection

How do eyes work? Watch a Cow’s Eye Dissection online and find out.…

International Rubik’s Cube Competiton

Tinkerer, programmer, and musician Ken Murphy shows how to build electromechanical “bugs”…

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| things to make and do

Paint with Light: Grab a digital camera, a flashlight or other light source, find a dark room, and paint.

Step Re-Mix: Watch people step dance, then remix the percussive music they make.

Make a Whirling Watcher: Create your own animated cartoons using a spinning disc called a stroboscope.

Cute-ify: Explore what makes animals, faces, and even objects cute—or not cute.

Make a cardboard automata: Make a cool, customized mechanical moving sculpture.

Find your age on other worlds: You’re a teenager on earth, but how old would you be on Mars, Saturn, Neptune, or some other planet?

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| Gross-Out Walk

Stroll past some of the grossest stuff we’ve got—from cow’s eye dissections to creepy-crawly insects munching on dead critters.

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