In order to add variety to our educational offerings, NYSCI typically hosts one or two traveling exhibitions every year, chosen for their fit with the NYSCI's mission and audience. Upcoming exhibitions are listed below.
Math Midway
February 6 – April 18, 2010
The Math Midway features fun and challenging mathematical content at all levels from children to PhDs. There is a range of unique exhibits, from square-wheeled tricycles that ride smoothly on a circular track of catenary arcs, to a plane of laser light that you can pass plastic polyhedra through to find their surprising cross sections. You can create unique pen and ink drawings to take home using the mechanical harmonograph. Or play with the "organ function grinder" in which you input a number, set a function, and turn the hand crank to generate both a numerical output and a unique calliope tune, which is transformed according to your function.
Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes
May 8 – August 22, 2010
Take a voyage on the most biologically diverse river in the world and learn about amazing creatures including piranhas, anacondas, caimans, stingrays and pink dolphins! Investigate the scientific, social and economic choices that shape the Amazon's future through the eyes and hands of field researchers and the local people in Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches.