Wayne Community College is offering free virtual science activities for children.
During the college’s “Science Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers” events, participants will make bioplastics, paper roller coasters, and wigglebots in two virtual sessions. They are free and open to all registered participants.
Kits will be provided for the first 200 registered children.
Families can register online. The deadline to register is Friday, March 25.
Registered families may pick up kits in front of the Wayne Learning Center (building with the flag poles) on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 26. This will be a conducted as drive-through event.
On Saturday, April 2 at 10:30 a.m., all who have registered can tune in to do the bioplastics activity provided by BioNetwork and be introduced to the roller coaster project. The following Saturday, also at 10:30 a.m., there will be a session to cover the results of the roller coaster-building activity and complete the wigglebots project.
Links will be emailed to all registered participants. The demonstrations will also be recorded for later viewing.
The activities are geared to students in grades three through five but will be fun and educational for the whole family, according to WCC Biology Instructor Sondi Hoffman.
This is the fourth time Wayne Community College has provided an official NC Science Festival event for the community. It is one of hundreds of events that will be held this April that will focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities for people of all ages across North Carolina.
About the North Carolina Science Festival
Founded in 2010, the North Carolina Science Festival is the first statewide science festival in the United States. Through a series of community-based events each April (hosted by schools, colleges, libraries, museums, parks, businesses, and other local organizations), the Festival celebrates the economic, educational, and cultural impacts of science in North Carolina. It is an initiative of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information, visit ncscifest.org.
About WCC
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, the college serves more than 10,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry, and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 165 college credit programs. WCC’s mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.