Join the Fleet’s Curator of Impossible Science, Jason Latimer, as he hosts our third annual Impossible Science Festival presented by ViaSat, taking place at the Fleet Science Center!

• Learn how to make objects invisible.
• Experience what it’s like to walk on water!
• Explore levitation.
• All of the festival fun is included in Fleet admission (along with Game Masters, Dream! Design! Build and all of the Fleet’s interactive exhibits, plus the IMAX film of your choice).

The Impossible Science Festival is a unique, hands-on, interactive event that explores the science behind the seemingly impossible. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn how to turn objects invisible, explore levitation, play with the science of mind control, discover impossible figures and even learn how to walk on water. This event will examine the question “what is possible?” and use visual and interactive experiences to show how the seemingly impossible can become possible through curiosity and knowledge.

“The goal of the Impossible Science Festival is to promote education through curiosity,” said Jason Latimer, host and designer of the Impossible Science Festival. “By exploring subjects that seem impossible but showing how they can be made possible through science, visitors will have a memorable, hands-on learning experience that will blow their minds!”

The event will be based around five themes: invisibility, levitation, animation, transformation and super powers, and each theme incorporates demonstrations that festival attendees will be able to observe or try for themselves. For invisibility, attendees will be able to use the refractive properties of Pyrex to make objects disappear in corn oil. They can also learn how to manipulate light—a precursor to invisibility—using a laser pen and tonic water, or make the invisible come to life with a homemade laser microscope.

For levitation, visitors can experience how concepts like the Bernoulli principle, static electricity and air pressure can make objects like ping pong balls, and tinsel appear to levitate!

The animation stations will use static electricity to make tissue paper dance, surface tension to make objects scoot along a water surface and sound waves to make a toothpick dance across a wine glass—plus you can learn how a battery, a magnet and a screw can be designed to make a small motor.

The transformation stations will show attendees how to make a square bubble or a fireproof balloon. And visitors can harness their own super powers when they create energy from pennies or walk on liquid Oobleck.

The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the theater lobby of the Fleet Science Center. In all there will be more than 20 interactive demonstration stations for visitors to experience.