WEEK 7: Mon-Fri, Jul 27-31, PM 12:00-3:00
THERMOPOLIUM WEEK: From ancient Greco-Roman culture, a thermopolium was a shop for ready-to-eat hot food, like our fast-food places today. We will learn to make things from common kitchen ingredients, some edible, some not, some using thermodynamics, some not. We will try our hand at making bread, chocolates, popcorn, potato chips, sorbet or ice cream, Oobleck, and slime. We will also examine and even taste a few culturally important foods from ancient Roman times, some exotic and some not so, and learn how we know about them 2,000 years later. We also celebrate this hottest week of the summer starting with National Thermal Engineering Day, July 24th, typically the hottest day of the year.
SCI-TECH SUMMER MAKERS 2026
New England Sci-Tech Summer Makers are young inventors, coders, builders, and super scientists who love any kind of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEM or STEAM).
For children entering grades 4 through 9 in the fall.
THEME WEEK TOPICS are for enrichment; they supplement, not replace, the regular weekly activities.
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We want you and your child to be comfortable with our facility and program, and we prefer that you do not sign up until after you have toured the facility and met us.
Please be sure you have thoroughly read the Summer Makers Website for complete information.