Shanghai Tower a kids' science wonderland
A boy works with a fossil.
Two boys engage in a thinking competition using their brain waves.
Shanghai Tower has become a hangout for young technology enthusiasts during the ongoing Shanghai Science Festival.
Through Saturday, children can have fun with a series of interactive games and science-education plays staged on the B2 floor, such as working with fossils, fighting with brain waves and skiing in virtual reality.
Wearing headbands with electrodes, two people can start a one-minute thinking competition. The computer can detect and analyze alpha waves, produced when people are relaxed and sleeping, and gamma waves, produced when people are focusing on something. Who thinks hardest wins.
Items from museum collections such as a flashlight exhibited at the 1888 Barcelona Expo, part of the engine of a Changzheng rocket and the world’s first commercialized genetically modified corn seed are on display.
Classes and lectures are offered during the weeklong event, including one on how to do CPR.
Items on display include a flashlight exhibited at the 1888 Barcelona Expo.
