All classes will be held at the Tuba Community Center from 9-llam. Dress for creativity! Comfortable clothes and closed-toe shoes that can get messy with mud and dyes.

Get ready to fold, fling, flip, and fly! In this fun, hands-on workshop, children will become junior aeronautical engineers as they design and test their very own paper aircraft.

What Will We Explore?

Children will learn how airplanes stay in the sky using four simple forces:

• Lift – what helps the plane go up

• Gravity – what pulls it down

• Thrust – what pushes it forward

• Drag – what slows it down

Through easy demonstrations and exciting flight tests, kids will see these forces in action and experiment with different ways to keep a plane gliding through the air.

• Fold different styles of paper airplanes

• Experiment with wing size and shape

• Add paper clips for balance and weight

• Launch planes and measure distance and airtime

• Redesign their aircraft to improve performance

We’ll explore questions like: 

Why do some planes glide farther than others?
What happens if the wings are wider?
How does weight change the flight?
How does air move over and under the wings?
Why do some planes loop or take a nose-dive into the dirt?  

By the end of the workshop, each child will have their own “flight-tested” aircraft and a new understanding of how humans learned to soar through the sky.

Please send your child with a water bottle and a healthy snack to support their energy and focus throughout the program.