“State of the Sciences: Live! at the Library”—a fun, interactive, family-friendly collaboration between the College of Sciences and the NCSU Libraries—happens Friday, April 13 from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. throughout the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus.
Registration for the event is closed -- capacity has been reached.
The event, which will be part of the North Carolina Science Festival, is free and open to the public.
- Featured events and activities include:
- Stargazing with the Astronomy Club
- Interactive video games and robotics technology, including a chess-playing robot
- Spectacular scenes of astrophysics and mathematics in talks in the library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab
- Science-themed arts performances, including a math-inspired dance
- Pub-style science trivia competition
- Kid-friendly science presentation by “Albert Einstein” and “Isaac Newton”
- Basketball shot accuracy demos with statisticians
- Virtual reality and 3D printing demos (provided by NCSU Libraries)
- Behind-the-scenes tours of the bookBot, the library’s state-of-the-art book delivery system