Some of you may recall our fabulous family visit to Questacon not so long ago.
Well, it turns out that the good folks at Questacon have a traveling 'circus' ,so named because of the massive truck that they roam around in, to visit rural areas and their schools/communities.
This week it was Mudgee's turn.
They had been to Dave's school and he boys' school yesterday, but tonight they held a huge show in the nearby outdoors centre (read big metal structure with a huge open door).
The boys, all three, we're delighted.
We arrived shortly after the show started and Big 's first stop was to get a photo beside the massive truck.
We checked out the first show on fluids (mostly gases which are fluids by the way) where he showed off how to float a ping-pong ball on a hairdryer.
Then the Tim the Toolman Taylor-ed it.
Nice work with the leaf blower. I'll be sure to pick one up or at least rent from a weekend from Home Depot to try this out.
From there we largely avoided the shows and checked out all of the exhibits. Both boys were quite excited about having a turn on the centripedal force machine (aka the one man merri-go-round).
Other big highlights included the Pythagoras water proof, the handball cannon, selfie battery and the plastic tube piano that you could hear all through the building. His two favourite by far however were the burst of light shadow machine (Big C invited Saje in for this one) and finally the PVC ball maze. You could shift around the pieces on magnets and make a variety of combinations to get the ball to any finish your creativity put to mind.
Big C easily spent more than half an hour here and would easily be there if we didn't need to leave from the cold and late hour. I think that Big C and I will be building this as a gift for him after we return to our Canadian home.
Thank you again Questacon for getting our boys even more excited about science.
PS - my personal favourite part of the night was arriving home to have Monkey comment 'those were pretty neat, but I liked the things that you did at our birthday parties better. Thanks daddy.'
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