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KCSC HOTspot

Register for a KCSC HOTspot event!

Balloon Rocket Races!

KCSC HOTspot features a variety of Brown Bag Activities at each event - check out this fun activity exploring action and reaction.

what is the kcsc hotspot?

Please reach us at info@kauaicsc.org if you cannot find an answer to your question.

KCSC wants to support career-connected learning, grow science literacy and build a stronger, more resilient community. Our HOTspot events support students, teachers and parents by bringing resources to their neighborhoods. 


The KCSC HOTspot comes to neighborhood centers where the students, teachers and parents can gather, have access to WiFi and connect with each other over fun, informal science activities!  


KCSC HOTspot events are totally FREE and open to everyone! Bring your keiki, tutu, aunty and uncle, students, teachers, parents and friends.


We feature free mobile WiFi able to provide WiFi within 1000 ft of the HOTspot, 3D printing demonstrations, robotics activities including M-Bot Robots and Spheros that you can control, book club books and fun Brown Bag Activities! 


HOTspot events occur twice per month! Stay tuned on social media for updates to our schedule, or check back in on our site!


Yes! Please fill out the registration form (keep scrolling to find it) and select your time slot based on availability!


Glad you asked! When you register you will see the location of the event you are signing up for. 


We've been at the Kaumakani Pavilion for many of our events. Check for location details on the registration form. We are looking to expand to neighborhood centers all over the island! We'd love to hear from you... where do you want us next?


STEAM, not the hot kind, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & culture and Math. 


Kauai Community Science Center is working with professionals from the BNY Mellon Fab Lab at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA, STE(A)M Truck powered by Community Guilds in Atlanta, GA and Chaminade University's " I Am a Scientist" mobile STEM program in Honolulu to develop KCSC HOTspot. These three established mobile learning resources are amazing collaborators for KCSC as we start our own "mobile" endeavor.


WIFI + STEAM = HOTSPOT

A mobile WiFi & STEAM Resource

*Science Technology Engineering Arts Math



    KCSC Brown bag activities

    3D Bubble Wand

    3D Bubble Wand

    3D Bubble Wand

    THE BIG IDEA

    Learn structural engineering and make some cool bubbles.

    Instructions

    3D Sculpture

    3D Bubble Wand

    3D Bubble Wand

    THE BIG IDEA

    Use household and recycled materials to create a sculpture.

    Instructions

    Balloon Rocket

    3D Bubble Wand

    Balloon Rocket

    THE BIG IDEA

    Design a balloon rocket to learn about action and reaction.

    Instructions

    Bird Feeder

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    Balloon Rocket

    THE BIG IDEA

    Use recycled and craft materials to make a feeder for the backyard and be prepared

    to observe the birds that visit.

    Instructions

    Bottle Racer

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    THE BIG IDEA

    The bottle racer converts stored potential energy into kinetic energy, the energy of motion.

    Instructions

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    Butterfly Life Cycle

    THE BIG IDEA

    To learn about a life cycle and complete metamorphosis.

    Instructions

    Candy Structure

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    THE BIG IDEA

    Engineering is a way to solve problems and be creative.

    Instructions

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    THE BIG IDEA

    Design a moving caterpillar and have a race!

    Instructions

    Cellular Soap Opera

    Caterpillar Straw Race

    Cellular Soap Opera

    THE BIG IDEA

    To learn about some viruses, including the novel coronavirus and how virus membranes behave. Learn how

    disrupting the viral membrane on contact, inactivates the virus.

    Instructions

    DIY Insect Net

    DIY Insect Net

    Cellular Soap Opera

    BIG IDEA

    Use recycled materials to assemble your own inset collecting net

    Instructions

    Einstein Art

    DIY Insect Net

    Einstein Art

    BIG IDEA

    Celebrate Albert Einstein’s birthday, March 14th by creating some art.

    Instructions

    OOBLECK

    DIY Insect Net

    Einstein Art

    BIG IDEA

    Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid. What does that mean and what does it have to do with viscosity and force?

    Instructions

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    THE BIG IDEA

    Learning to use a measuring tool to determine the sizes of objects.

    Instructions

    Membranaphone

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    THE BIG IDEA

    Make an instrument that is fun to play.

    Using a recycled water bottle and a paper tube to make a membranophone—an instrument that

    produces sound from a vibrating stretched membrane. Kazoos and drums are both examples of

    membranophones. This one sounds a bit like a cross between a saxophone and a clarinet.

    Instructions

    Parachute Challenge

    Measure Up Mystery Bag

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    THE BIG IDEA

    Make a parachute using simple materials and watch how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect it as it

    falls.

    Instructions

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    THE BIG IDEA

    To learn about phases of the moon

    Instructions

    Robotic Hand

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    Solar System Model

    THE BIG IDEA

    To learn how robotics can help substitute some of the functions of the skeleton and muscles that make us move. 

    Instructions

    Solar System Model

    Phases of the Moon Wreath

    Solar System Model

    THE BIG IDEA

    To learn about what planets are in our solar system, which ones are closer or further from the Sun, and which

    one is the biggest or the smallest.

    Instructions

    share your story

    KCSC HOTspot at Kaumakani Pavilion during one of our events in 2020.

    We LOVE feedback! hey we're scientists after all

    Whether you’re a student, parent, teacher or involved with KCSC in some other way, we would love to hear about your experience! We’re looking for anything from suggestions, questions, anecdotes and funny stories, to meaningful feedback regarding the impact that KCSC has had on you, your family and friends etc.


    We would also love to see photos of your keiki participating in STEAM projects at home — any activities that involve creating, problem solving and critical thinking skills — indoors or outside.


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