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Spaghetti Bridges: Building and Testing
Building spaghetti bridges is a workshop where children have to make a bridge that spans a certain width using only uncooked spaghetti and a heat glue gun. The group that builds the bridge that can support the most weight without breaking is …
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Plant cuttings: Workshop
Roll up your sleeves during this workshop in The World of Kina: the Garden, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people.
Plants can multiply without the intervention of seeds. That way
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The honeybee: Exhibition in The world of Kina, the Garden
In The World of Kina: the Garden, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people, one of the museum rooms is completely dedicated to the hard worker, the honey bee.
Honey bees are our smallest pets. On warm, sunny days they fly tirelessly from …
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Workshop: Visual Arts
During a Visual Arts Workshop we will experiment with colors and shapes in a creative way. We use paint, ink, various types of paper, glue, scissors, etc. Our visual artist provides the participants with tools regarding the use of color and …
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Kei-Cool: An exhibition about rocks and minerals
Can rocks melt? And how do tectonic plates shift?
You will learn this and much more in this permanent exhibition in The World of Kina:
- take the elevator to the core of the earth and discover how the earth is constructed;
- plate tectonics, …
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Printing techniques workshop
During a Printing Techniques Workshop we will work with a printing technique of your choice. Our visual artist will guide you through the world of collography or rubber printing. Both are a form of letterpress printing.
Interested in one of our …
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Workshop: Painting in the style of ...
During a Workshop Painting in the style of ... we choose a well-known (or less well-known) painter as a source of inspiration for this painting workshop.
We start with a brief introduction of the chosen painter. Then we observe some of his/her …
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Workshop: Making Collage
During a Collage Making Workshop we will work with paper, scissors and glue. We start with a stack of magazines, old photos, used wrapping paper, greeting cards, etc. The participants learn to observe. What is a beautiful image? What attracts …
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Network security
This workshop is ideal for third grade students with an interest in computer science and engineering.
During this workshop you will learn everything about network security. What is hacking and how can you prevent it? In concrete terms, you will carry …
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Build your own movie search app
During this "hands-on" workshop we discover the different web technologies with which websites and web apps are built.
We use an online movie library and provide a graphical shell to shape our movie search app. We learn how to build a simple web …Translated by
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Workshops: Graffiti
Spray away during a graffiti workshop! You get the chance to express yourself creatively. We make our own design and work with different spraying techniques. Of course we observe all safety rules. The result? A flashy and colorful work of art from …
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