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Life of the Brain
This new permanent exhibit allows visitors to discover how the brain constantly changes throughout an individual's lifetime in order to obtain and store new information. Visitors can also explore which parts of the brain are responsible for the five senses and test their eye-hand coordination as they try to maneuver a metal bar through a maze.

Virtual Reality
This new permanent exhibit enables visitors to step right in the middle of a volleyball, soccer, hockey, or basketball game. Visitors can see if they have what it takes to shoot a basket or defend a soccer goal from virtual shots.

RoboMars
Robots have intrigued humans and captured our imagination for centuries. SciTrek, in conjunction with the Atlanta Hobby Robot Club, will challenge young enterprising engineers to build their own robots and maneuver them over Mars terrain. Visitors will enjoy building motorized space creatures or vehicles and moving them remotely.

The SciTrek Express
Experience our newly updated electric train exhibit. Come and see six different O gauge trains and over 300 feet of track. Complete with miniature towns and depots. This exciting new exhibit features not only a state of the art high speed Amtrak train but also our new Train Simulator kiosks. All Aboard!

ZOOMzone
ZOOM into science and math activities at SciTrek’s ZOOMzone. ZOOMers can experience cool puzzles, brainteasers, and challenges created by kids for kids. This exciting and interactive exhibit is based on ZOOM, the popular PBS television show for kids ages five to eleven.

Recreating the colorful and energetic feel of the television show, SciTrek’s ZOOMzone gives kids an opportunity to experiment with hands-on science and math activities in an environment that encourages them to think creatively and come up with their own solutions.

ZOOMzone is brought to you in part by GPTV and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Additional sponsors include IBEW, Local 613 and SBC. For more detailed information on ZOOM, visit the ZOOM website at www.pbskids.org/zoom.

Electric-Magnetic Junction
Get a charge out of learning by using the principles of magnetic attraction and electrical currents. Visitors can close a circuit with their own body, witness a 15,000-volt electrical discharge, watch magnetic forces hurl a metal ring 22 feet into the air, peddle a bike to generate electricity, and design a "lightning storm" in a jar by tracing paths on a tube filled with plasma.

The Color Factory
The color factory contains a number of educational activities that allow you to mix the raw materials of color to produce an array of color hues. Visitors can also freeze their shadow on a phosphorescent wall, take a close-up look at the pixels in a TV screen, and split a beam of white light into a rainbow of color.

Light Reflections
Explore the properties of light and the science of optics. Use prisms, lenses, and mirrors and watch how light waves are reflected, refracted, and magnified.

Perception and Illusions
Discover the range of the human senses when you interact with these exhibits. Watch yourself shrink and grow as you walk inside a distorted room, test your peripheral vision, and discover how your mind compensates for optical illusions.

Simple Machines: How Things Work
Roll up your sleeves and see how machines help make work into child's play. Lift a 100-lb. weight with one hand using a pulley. Spin around and feel the pull of centrifugal forces. Pull a load up an inclined plane and imagine what it might have been like to build the pyramids of Egypt one ton at a time. Whisper into giant dishes that carry your voice across the room so your friends can hear you 80 feet away.

KidSpace
KidSpace is a special exhibit area for children ages two through seven which provides hands-on science experiences for young children and adults to explore together. KidSpace allows children to experiment at their own pace in a stimulating environment. Children can use water to turn a wheel and create a dam to change the water's flow. Kids see themselves on TV, build a kid-sized house, use face paints, play musical instruments and draw pictures on a computer.

Communications Gallery
SciTrek is in the process of building a new communications exhibit hall. This exhibit will include computers with Internet access, the history of communications, global positioning systems, and much more. Please check back for more information.

STARS- SciTrek Amateur Radio Society
Visit the SciTrek STARS HAM Radio Station every Saturday from noon to 3:00pm to learn more about morse code and the history of telecommunications. Visit the STARS page to learn more!

Georgia Technology Hall of Fame
Meet the role models who have shaped the growth of technology in Georgia. Learn about leading figures in the fields of science, math, business, and engineering.