Vacation Program
- Monday, February 16, 2015
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Designed for ages 9 to 12
Following closely the hands of great thinkers at work traces a useful map of genius.
February 15 was Galileo's 451st birthday*. Galileo was a brilliant observer. He understood the movements of planets. He understood the movement of marbles. Construct a marble tree to test your mastery of marbles in motion. Construct Galileo's marble shooter which drops and flings 2 marbles simultaneously to demonstrate the equal influence of gravity. Join a team that will construct a 50 foot long marble track. Or join a team that will work on the prototype for a new feature of the Marble Wall.
Weather permitting, observe and draw sun spots with a device as simple as the telescope Galileo used in 1612.**
* December 8, 2015 will be Eli Whitney's 250th birthday. We will mention timelines often this year. Galileo Galilei was born almost exactly 2 centuries before Whitney.
** Special thanks to the Peabody Museum for the loan of their Sun Spot Telescope.
