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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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Discoverit: Microworld
With this learning tool, your classroom will be transformed into a laboratory for two hours. With the aim of having students work like real researchers with professional equipment.
A selection from the experiments:
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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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Energy Days
During the training 'Working with renewable energy', after a short theoretical introduction, students start working in small groups to experience for themselves the possibilities and limitations of renewable energy production via sun, …
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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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Maintenance Action Days
Last-year tso are introduced to up-to-date technology during a maintenance action day. After a short introduction, they get to work with the help of guidance in the high-tech practice rooms of AP:
- Monitoring the condition of a process installation …
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Disabled in South America: Can I do something about it?
Young people with disabilities in South America need our help. After a theoretical PowerPoint presentation and some visual testimonials via YouTube, it's time for action...
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Evolution of Man: Exhibition
In The World of Kina you see with your own eyes that modern man did not arrive immediately. He is the result of a long evolution, from great ape to Homo sapiens sapiens. We cannot really call the first in line human. They had more features of an …
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Rubbish recycling orchestra
A pep bottle, beer bottle, crown cap, old ladle, plate, glass, PVC tube… We sort the waste and discover how we can reuse waste to craft our own musical instrument. Hammer, nails, drills, screws, etc. are our best friends and we close the …
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