First Floor Atrium

• Mission Control  - Info Desk - Get your passport stamped for Venus!
• Liver Enzymes Action - Watch chicken liver make bubbles and fizz right before your eyes! Learn how enzymes help reactions happen by turning hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.
• 🌈 Candy Diffusion/Chromatography - Candy + science = fun! Watch Skittles' colors spread and gummy bears grow as we learn how things move and mix through diffusion and chromatography demos.
• Seeing Sea Squirts Up Close - Come meet your closest invertebrate relative - the sea squirt! Join the Alberto Stolfi lab in learning about all the similarities and differences you share with these funky underwater creatures!
• Hydrogel Bead Creation - Make tiny squishy beads using a seaweed derived liquid this hands-on activity you can touch demonstrates how simple materials can change shape and texture in fun and surprising ways.
• Water Properties Fun💧- Explore water’s unique properties, including a hands-on activity that shows how water molecules attract one another and interact with other surfaces.
• Chilling with Science: Cool Beyond Belief 🧊- What happens when things get really cold? Using liquid nitrogen (an ultra-cold liquid), the Loren Williams Lab will freeze flowers and balloons to see what happens! You will explore how temperature affects matter through exciting, hands-on demonstrations.
• 🔬Micro-World Microscope - Explore the microscopic world by viewing algae and single-celled organisms on a shared monitor with our team. Get a hands-on look at the tiny details of living things using a high-powered magnifying microscope!

Suddath Seminar Room 1128

• What do Brains and Computers Have in Common? 💻 - Join GT's Undergraduate Neuroscience group to explore the ways our brains are similar and different from computers! As neuroscientists, we are excited to teach the amazing things the brain can do!

First Floor

• Mission Control - Info Desk - Get your passport stamped for Earth!
• Speaker Session Auditorium - Where you will have two opportunities to attend our featured presentation (11 a.m. or 12 p.m.).
• Georgia Tech Bookstore 🐝 - Pick up some fun science swag at the Georgia Tech Barnes and Noble Bookstore Booth!
• Science ATL: Atlanta Science Festival - Atlanta Science Festival representatives will share exciting festival highlights, answer questions, and spark curiosity about the upcoming science-filled celebrations!
• Kendeda Sustainability - Visit Georgia Tech's "Living Building" and gain insights into cutting-edge sustainability efforts.
• 🪐 How Big is the Solar System, Really? - Explore the scale of our solar system across Atlanta with hands-on models of Earth, the Moon, and Mars, a “smell of space” jar, and a plush Saturn V. Meet the students who study space at Georgia Tech and test your instincts with an “Alien or Earth?” guessing game for stickers.
• 📸 Photo Booth - Don't miss the chance to meet our featured speakers at the festival! Snap a photo with them at our photo booth and create lasting memories.
• 🪄Magic Metals: Watch Them Change! - Did you know metals can bend, move, and even remember their original shape? Bend metal yourself, then watch it magically move back when it gets warm. Engineers design materials like this to respond to forces and temperature!
• Corals and Ocean Acidification - With materials you can easily find at home, learn how the ocean responds to chemical changes in the air around us and why that's important. View coral skeletons and learn how our lab studies corals!
• 💦 Drinking Water Treatment Technologies - See how a 222nm ultraviolet lamp combined with hydrogen peroxide can effectively degrade dye contaminants in water - presented by Ching-Hua Huang's Environmental Chemistry Research Lab.
• Holy Shift! Podcast - Step inside the world of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Holy Shift! brings you fast, inspiring conversations with the researchers creating engineering breakthroughs that improve health — from new imaging tools to personalized treatments - to show why their work matters for all of us.

Second Floor

• Dye-namic Diffusion - See how liquids change the way molecules move. We’ll track drops of food dye through water, sugar water, and starchy water to compare how quickly the color spreads. This simple test shows how thickness (viscosity) affects motion—the same idea engineers use in water filtration and controlled drug delivery. Brought you by grad students in the Vida Jamali lab.
• Intro to 3D Printing - Come discover the world of 3D printing with the Aero Maker Space. See a real 3D printer in action with different printers and materials. Bring your curiosity and leave with a 3D printed trinket to take home (while supplies last).
• Virtual Reality and Robots 🤖 - Step into immersive VR experiences that put you inside a flying car and an underwater submarine, then meet our robotic guide dog up close.
• LED and Light Science - See how LEDs are integrated in our daily lives from phones to TVs. Interact with different microscopes and polarizers to get a better understanding of the fundamentals of light science.
• MVR, Navigation, Visual Illusions, and AI - From navigating to virtual reality, experience visual illusions, explore how artificial intelligence (AI) behaves, and more with an array of fun, hands-on activities!

First Floor Atrium

• Mission Control - Info Desk - Get your passport stamped for Mars!
• ☁️ Cloud in a Bottle - Create your own tabletop cloud using rubbing alcohol in a plastic water bottle. Learn how rapidly decreasing pressure causes gases to become liquids, just like in our atmosphere!
• The Cleanroom - The cleanrooms at the Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) at Georgia Tech house over 200 tools used in the fabrication of items including electronic microchips, micro-needles, and next generation fabrics. Attendees will get to see the facility and learn about the tools that scientists and engineers are using to improve everyday life.
• Graphene💡- Learn about the fascinating properties of graphene with a chance to build an electrical circuit using graphene to light a bulb.
• Magic Sand - Explore the fascinating world of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials. Participants will have the chance to work with magic sand, a hydrophobic material designed to clean oil spills.
• Ferrofluids - Find out about the magic of ferrofluids and their cool everyday uses! Get hands-on with these fascinating materials and see them in action.
• 📐How Tall am I in Nanometers? - Experience the unique opportunity to measure yourself in nanometers, gaining insight into your size relative to the nanoscale. This interactive demo also highlights the applications of nanotechnology in fields like medicine, electronics, and materials science.
• Nano-Jelly Factory - Use our special science gel to trap sprinkles inside a squishy protective bubble. It looks like magic, but it’s actually how we design smart medicine to help people get better.

Rooms 1116-1117

• LuminAIx 🕺🏻- Dance with an AI agent in an interactive three-panel dance installation. Learn about AI concepts and how they store and read data, and represent knowledge in a playful way.  

Rooms 1117-1118

• ⚡️Electricity, Sensors, Chemistry and Biology - Explore hair-raising static electricity, use a camera that senses light that your eyes cannot see, explore the microscopic world of one-celled organisms, and use chemistry to create your own art work.

Level 0 Lab

• Imagining the Nanoscale - Discover how researchers in GT's Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) investigate materials at the micro- and nano-scales with fascinating examples and demonstrations!

First Floor:

• Mission Control - Info Desk - Get your passport stamped for Jupiter!
• Nursing Room 🍼👶 - Room 1236 in the Whitaker building is available for nursing mothers.
• 🤩 Physics Transformations: How Do Changes Affect Motion and Matter? - Much of physics is about change and what happens when we change parts of our environment. Experiment with the ultra-cold liquid nitrogen or with vacuum chambers or with bicycle wheels to see how you can create odd physical phenomena.
• Wonders of Physics!🔮- Come explore the magic of electricity, plasmas, and light! Watch various demonstrations that help explain some of the most mysterious concepts in physics.
• 👀 Tricks of the Eye: How Light Plays  - Participate in fun, hands-on activities that show how light can play tricks on our eyes. An arrow can appear to flip in water, a glass tube can nearly disappear in oil, and ordinary white light can turn into a rainbow. Each experiment feels like magic, but it’s really just light moving in surprising ways we can observe.
• Bridge to Infinity ♾️- Join the Association for Women in Math to discover the hidden patterns of our world! Learn to think like a mathematician by solving an impossible puzzle and creating your own mathematical pattern!

First Floor:

• Mission Control - Info Desk - Get your passport stamped for Saturn!
• WALL-E Robot 🤖 - Come meet WALL-E from Disney Pixar in the atrium.
• Robot Art Lab 🎨 - Join the Finch Lab to use real robots to create art while learning how simple coding controls motion, patterns, and design in a robot, and creating a physical piece of art to take home.
• Papermaking – Paper, Print, Press - Join the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and guest artist Bryan Baker to make your own print on a mobile printing press, exploring the intersection of art and technology.
• Flexible Surgical Robots - GT's RoboMed Lab shows you how to handle sample tendon-driven robots, including handheld versions, to see how they function in surgical applications.
• 🐝 RoboJackets Project Showcase - Explore a display of five types of competitive robots, including live demos of both destructive and non-destructive battlebots. Attendees can safely operate the non-destructive bots for a hands-on experience!
• Robotic Manipulation for Poultry Processing - Explore how people and robots work together in modern food processing. Using a robotic arm, participants will see how human guidance and robotic precision combine to perform tasks with an intuitive, user-friendly manipulator.
• Autonomous Navigation Robot - The CanSat Robotics Club will activate a small, autonomous driving robot - designed to be shot from a rocket.
• Mechanical Intelligence in Robotics 🦾 - Learn about different robot designs and how they help solve some of the most challenging problems in robotics, from locomotion to manipulation.
• Code, Simulate, Fly! - Write simple Python commands to fly a drone in a simulator in this hands-on intro to coding and robotics. Then watch that same code fly a real 27-gram micro drone live.

Ground Floor, Lab G143

• ☕️ Coffee or Tea? What are They Made of? - Learn how scientists at Georgia Tech can figure out what molecules are contained in Tea or Coffee using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

BioQuad Lawn

• Ramblin' Rocket Club 🚀 - Make your own stomp rocket and glider while exploring the basics of problem-solving and creativity in engineering. See how far your glider and rocket fly! Learn more about our club's rockets and other launch vehicles.
• 🚀 Rockets 101:  Paper Rocket Stability Testing - Join the GT Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics to design and build a paper rocket. Then launch it with a breath of air to see how rockets stay stable and generate thrust.
• Building Racecars for Cheap - See a full-size race car designed, built, and driven entirely by students on a strict budget. Learn about different types of racing, how cars work, creating with metal, and race car building.
• Solar Observation 🔭 - Safely view the sun through two of our telescopes to see sun spots and the sun's "corona" or crown. Each scope will have a different filter, allowing you to see different aspects of the Sun.

Atlantic Drive

• 🏎️ GT Motorsports: Learn about Race Cars - Come see (and sit) in a student-built race car! Talk to members of the GT Motorsports team about their experiences and life at Georgia Tech.