Updated Solar Power Roadshow Activities List

Activities & Workshops

New Tel/Cell (604) 512-9567

Here's a list of hands-on edu-fun activities for kids from ages 4 to 104 by the Solar Roadshow. These can be done indoors or outdoors, unless otherwise indicated. For teachers looking for prescribed learning outcomes information for each activity, please click here.

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Canada Day 2008 - North Vancouver
http://www.vimeo.com/1271995

Kids Day - Festival of the Arts
(people's reviews only)
http://www.vimeo.com/1318092
(full length)
http://www.vimeo.com/1343734

Whistler Children's Art Festival
(sailcar build/race)
http://www.vimeo.com/1340467
(sticky bubbles)
http://www.vimeo.com/1364761
(carbon-free cooling station)
http://www.vimeo.com/1359891

Vancouver West End Street Festival
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1105562

Model Bridge-Makers' Faire at an Independent School
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1616733

Battery Giveaway UFO Magic at 30 Days Kids Zone
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2629989/7723000

Vancity Community Day & Branch Opening
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1144732

West Vancouver SPCA fund-raiser
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1114928

Sticky Bubbles at GVRD Country Celebration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0TAf7wHi5c

Themed Colouring Contest at Shopping Mall
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=146698587556114585&q=SOLAR+POWERED+ROADSHOW&total=6&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

Robots, Fishing, and Electric Vehicle at Car Show & Shine
http://www.livevideo.com/video/97BB893D228F478ABC863D9DAA5C50A2/show-shine-solar-powered-ro.aspx

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(For any venue including birthday parties)

Model solar car building , theory and races
Build a solar cooker and take it home - forest fire prevention
Model sailcars and races
Sustainable Energy magic show
Experiment and build wind turbines
Mystery Solar Power Device competition
Electric shock & mind-over-body games
Reviving "non-rechargeable" batteries with solar panels
Solar powered bubble machines, bubble beards for festivals
Solar-powered 'dragon boat' racing

Kinetic solar-powered art

Hands-on Workshops for Schools , Museums,
Out-of-School Care Centres, Summer Daycamps, or

Gifted Kids' Continuing-Education

Ocean wave energy, water turbines
& biofeedback thinking aid
Stirling engines
Fuel cell cars
Repairing umbrellas for zero waste
Almost-free thermoelectric energy
Radio-controlled model sailcars (outdoor only)
Advanced sailcars
Advanced model solar cars (for gifted & advanced learners)
Build a model city ("Electric City") that runs on renewable energy
(http://carbon-free.blogspot.com/)
"Not Invented Yet" Kids Inventors Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1VwLpo-3nI

Girls rebuilding an electric vehicle
(http://capilano-college-solar.blogspot.com/

Inventions from Da Vinci to Tesla (including the "Bridge Party")
http://da-vinci-kids.blogspot.com/

New Activities

Moonliteball for all ages, indoors, or night time outdoors
"Be The Dinosaur" (kids inside a full-size baby dinosaur edu-fun)
Can a Car Run on Water?
Solar Clap-Clap Bug Race (for ages 3-9 *HOT*)
Bridge Makers' Faire
Giant Solar-Powered Jump-On Piano Keyboard
Revived Battery UFO Magic Show
Keeping people in slow-moving lineups much happier..
..with screaming, crazy edu-fun games
Blue Man Gruppe recycled-energy sound & light
Catch and Release Fishing Game
Solar Robot-Rowboat Race
Balloon Jousting Knights-In-Shining-Armour
Clicker-Battery Refreshment Bar & Magnet Station
The Wind-Farm and Model Car Races
Watt/Cost/Carbon Calculator Station
Inefficient Car Lightbulb Swap Demo Station
Forest-Saving Device Guessing Game
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Rocket Launches
Solar Powered Face Painting and Sustainable-Energy Colouring Contest
Sustainable Music Factory
Electric Vehicle Group Presentations
World's first Revived Battery Electric Pickup Truck "gasoline" fill up

Seasonal Activities

Turning pumpkins into an energy source
Halloween Electric Fun

Used pumpkin collection
People carillon (Dec 6th - Jan 6th only)

Here's solar-powered fun and a magic show at fairs, BIA festivals, and tourist attractions!

Trust we'll hear from you soon,
Rob
Solar Power Roadshow
new phone number 604-512-9567
SolarPowerRoadshow [at] yahoo [dot] com

On-site requirements: For fairs or festivals: We require two 5' tables and a tent, preferably positioned upwind, so that bubbles fly over the festival area.

For outdoor summer festivals, there's our Global Warming Cooling & Info Station ("cooling station"). This requires a water (hose) supply.

Previous Media Coverage

At the Greater Vancouver Zoo's anniversary

At the BC Gifted Childrens Assn of BC special event
Fairchild TV broadcast (in Chinese)
City TV Breakfast Television with Tasha Chiu

Canada Day solar twist in North Vancouver Outlook

The Republic - sustainable events at shopping malls

Meadowridge School homecoming

Watershed-Sentinel magazine

Fire Prevention event for Lougheed mall in a Burnaby newspaper

Giving Back to the Community

Christmas Wish breakfast

At Greendrinks