OMSI's Stage Programs deliver an upbeat and powerful experience for your class or school. Each program relies on students' active participation and plenty of volunteers from the audience. Concepts are brought to life with interactive and thought-provoking demonstrations. It's minds-on, as well as hands-on, for an adventure that your students will never forget!

Capacity: 250*
Duration: 50 minutes
Fee: $3.00 per student, adult chaperones free.

*Note: There is a 60-student minimum to reserve a program. Smaller groups may join already reserved programs or pay the $180 minimum. Subject to availability.

Sounds of Science
Grades: 1-8
Available: Thursdays only at 10:00am and 11:30am
Nov. 1 2007 - June 12, 2008
How do musicians make their instruments sing? How are sounds created and manipulated to create music? See how simple math can be used to explore harmony and resonance. Watch and listen while you and your class band together to make sounds - but will it be music?

Tornadoes, Thunder and Lightning, Oh My!
Grades: K-8
Available: Wednesdays only at 10:00am and 11:30am
Oct. 31 2007 - June 11, 2008
How are hot air, pressure, tornadoes, and lightning part of the dynamic forces of weather? You will be "blown away" when you experience weather OMSI-style with our flaming tornado and indoor lightning!

Something Shocking: Forces of Electricity and Magnetism
Grades: 3-8
Available: Thursdays only at 10:00am and 11:30am
Nov. 1 2007 - June 12, 2008
Spark students' excitement about the physics of electricity and magnetism! Demonstrations include bending a stream of water, creating homemade lightning, and generating hair-raising static electricity. Students learn how scientists build on each other's discoveries to make useful transformations of energy.