Professor Powers Science Symposium
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Professor Robert Bruce Powers has been teaching chemistry and physics to the future’s bright stars for 5 years at local and regional high schools. His passion for science is only rivaled by his love of teaching kids to enjoy it as much as he does. Professor Powers Science Symposium gives your children and teens the option to attend just one class or as many as you wish. Each lesson is tailored to
01/09/2023
Long time no science! Come experiment with Professor Powers at this one-time event, Frosty Fun, with the Park Board!
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06/03/2019
Our super-science summer camps are just 2 weeks away! Solve another escape-room-mystery with Detective Camp, and use your noggin to complete all sorts of incredible challenges with Engineering Camp. It isn't too late to register, but these will fill up! See you soon, scientists!
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03/18/2019
Have you been dreaming about summer? Us, too! 2019 Summer Camp registration is now open!
DETECTIVE CAMP
8:30am to 11:30am
June 17-21 for ages 9-12 | June 24-28 for ages 5-8
Professor Pompeius, world renowned scientist, is in a bit of a pickle. He self-tested a serum he’d concocted and it’s completely wiped his memory! In this extended escape room format, use the clues he left behind to find the antidote before it’s too late!
ENGINEERING CAMP
12:30pm to 3:30pm
June 17-21 for ages 9-12 | June 24-28 for ages 5-8
This camp is focused on Professor Powers’ favorite thing, STEM Challenges! Each day offers a variety of STEM projects, ranging from paddle boats to mini-golf courses and everything in between! Challenges will test campers’ skills against wild and crazy puzzles, things to build, and solutions to problems, in the most fun way possible.
Each camp costs $150, and scholarships are available. Register now before they fill up!
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02/24/2019
Our last class is next Saturday! Come make some cardboard games to bring home and share with family and friends.
Arcade Engineering | Mar 2 Saturday, March 2nd 1pm for ages 5-12 Let your imagination and your skill with manipulating cardboard be your only limitations when designing a fun and exciting game to be played alone or with others. Class costs $15 per child and is held at The Dream Center, located at 829 W Atlantic in Springfie
01/23/2019
You're our favorite scientists.
ProPow Goes Out with a BANG! 💕💥💞 Rob and I started Professor Powers Science Symposium in May of 2014, after noticing a need for more project-based science education opportunities. To start, we held the classes in our home around our dining room table. We quickly realized that we’d need more space and moved to the Creamery Arts Ce...
01/22/2019
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Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales At Washington-area exhibitions, technology reveals images once hidden from our view.
01/22/2019
How do our lungs work, really? Come to our next bio engineering class on February 2nd to find out!
Bio Engineering | Feb 2 Saturday, February 2nd 1pm for ages 5-12 Amaze your friends with a realistic and functioning model of a human lung that you have made yourself! Class costs $15 per child and is held at The Dream Center, located at 829 W Atlantic in Springfield, Missouri.
01/17/2019
Calling all scientists! We won this last year, and 2 years in a row would be amazing! Give us a vote!
Vote for us! Professor Powers Science Symposium Our mission is to cultivate creativity through science education and experiment design. Professor Powers Science Symposium, a 501(c)3 non-profit, has been offering fun and engaging science opportunities for kids of all ages (adults included) in Springfield, Missouri since May of 2014. We offer class...
01/04/2019
Are you feeling that chill in the air? Our next class is a cold one, and it's right around the corner! Dry ice: weird substance, perfect for science experiments, and unexpectedly perfect for art projects. Come and learn about the unusual properties of frozen carbon dioxide through a variety of activities and leave with a work of art using dry ice, soap, and water.
Dry Ice Art | Jan 12 Saturday, January 12th 1pm for ages 5-9 2:15pm for ages 8-12 Dry ice: weird substance, perfect for science experiments, and unexpectedly perfect for art projects. Come and learn about the unusual properties of frozen carbon dioxide through a variety of activities and leave with a work of art using
12/11/2018
Homeschoolers! It's almost time for our very last Professor Powers (Wednesday) class of the year!
Join us at the Creamery Arts Center tomorrow, December 12, from 1:30-2:30 to learn about Fossils - how they're made, how they help scientists date the layers of the Earth, and which ones we can find in our own backyard.
Make your own plaster cast of a fossil to take home!
see you there!
Fossils! Wednesday, December 12 | 1:30-2:30pm | Ages 8-10 Learn how fossils are formed, and what sorts of things can become fossils. Discover how "guide fossils" can help scientists uncover the ancient history of the earth. Classify according to
11/28/2018
Everybody loves a good rocketry class, and we're doing balloon rockets all week! Come discover how Newton's 3rd Law governs rocket propulsion. Build a balloon rocket - let it fly! Now make it better.... add fins; how many? where? does a nose-cone help??? It's all up to you to discover!
Balloon Rockets is THIS SATURDAY at the Dream Center in Springfield!
Balloon Rockets | Dec 1 Saturday, December 1st 1pm for ages 5-9 2:15pm for ages 8-12 It ain’t rocket science...or is it? Students will test their mettle against others in this exciting endeavor that makes them the captain of their own rocket ship. Build, test, race, rebuild and try again. Aerodynamics, forces, and engine
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