MORE THAN JUST PLAY AT THE NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE
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he New York Hall of Science has come along since the 1964 World’s Fair. From its beginnings as one of the iconic World’s Fair pavilions, the New York Hall of Science has evolved into the region’s premiere hands-on science and technology center.
Since 1986, NYSCI has served over seven million children, parents and teachers, carrying on its mission to convey the excitement and understanding of science and technology to everyone by galvanizing their curiosity and offering them creative, participatory ways to learn. Summer is a particularly exciting time to visit NYSCI. Its new exhibit, “Design Zone,” opens May 25, and runs through. Sept. 1. The interactive exhibit involves three areas, at which visitors can learn how videogame developers, music producers, roller coaster designers and other creative problem solvers use math and science to meet their design challenges. Music – Hear It! examines math in the music while you explore relationships between length and pitch in musical instruments, ratios and rhythms, and visual representations of sound. Exhibits include: Drum Machine. Be a DJ and pick the sounds and the number of repeats for a two-beat track, a three-beat track, and a four-beat track. Then see if you can get all tracks to end on the same beat. Music Mix. Try out your music production skills by putting together music samples. Pick your best song and email it to your friends. Turntables. Practice your DJ skills on simulated turntables. Sound Graph. Talk, sing or whistle into a microphone and
Keep young minds active this summer with a visit to the New York Hall of Science.
see the sound displayed on a real-time graph of pitch over time. Whack-a-Phone. Hit tubes of different lengths to make music.
Slide-a-Phone. While a friend beats on the drumhead, slide the tube to play different notes. Digital Strings. Adjust the lengths of eight virtual strings and then hear your musical pattern. In the second area, Art – See It!, find out how visual designers use scale, pattern, coordinate grids, equality and slope to turn ideas into reality. See the math behind visual creativity as you design your own 2-D and 3-D art. Exhibits include: Mirror Multiplier. Explore reflectional symmetry using colorful geometric pieces and a hinged pair of mirros. Picture Calculator. Take a picture of yourself and manipulate the values of the pixels to transform your photo. Then, in Action – Move It!, discover the math and physics behind anything that moves. Build a custom digital roller coaster, design your own skate park, and race your bike to the finish line. Exhibits include: Roller Coaster Hills. Roll a ball down a ramp from a certain height and find out how far it flies off the end of the ramp. Fast Tracks. Assemble your track to create and test your own roller coaster course using a giant magnet wall. Design a Roller Coaster. Design and test virtual roller coaster tracks in this computer graphing simulation. Bike Race. Choose from three bike stations – two recumbent bicycles or a hand crank bike – and experience a full-body bike race. NYSCI is located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens. For more information, visit www.nysci.org.
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