Family Fun Plaza

Objective: Design IT Studios is bringing activity for the Museum guest, who's visiting the Star Wars exhibit, to come play in Family Fun Plaza.

Time: June 5th-7th, 2007

Activity: Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11:30am-5:30pm Design IT Studios is out and about the Museum of Science and History playing with various activities. For this weekend, we brought the trebuchet out, stomp rockets, and keva kapla.

In the picture to the left, Eric is instructing the kids on the difference between trebuchet and catapult, how the trebuchet works, and letting the kids tell him what degree he needs to position the launcher and where to place the red sack. We had an intern become a target but pretty soon guest and parents wanted to get wet too!

Stomp Rocket activity has been going on since the beginning of June. Interns became experts at making rockets fly to the top of the Museum building. The guests enjoy making a couple of different design in their stomp rocket to see which one would work the best.

Keva Kapla is a fun activity for designing building from the old to the modern. Many adults and kids enjoying building but on a hot day they prefer not to seat out for in the heat.

This weekend was fairly busy with water balloons and rockets flying over heads. The guest loved the trebuchet and many kids asked how to make one. Parents were excited and wanted to join their kids playing and trying to figure out how to hit the target.

Eddie and Ashley instructing the guest on how to make a rocket out of construction paper.

3, 2, 1, go.... who will it hit?

Does it hit David ?!?