Crazy Contraptions

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Fri 6 Apr ’12, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 7 Apr ’12, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sun 8 Apr ’12, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Mon 9 Apr ’12, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
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Where: MOTAT (Museum of Transport & Technology), 805 Great North Rd, Auckland

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Adults: $14.00
Students/children 5-16: $8.00
Seniors: $7.00
Children under 5: $0.00
Family pass (2 adults, 4 children): $35.00
MOTAT Mates annual Family Pass: $65.00

Website:

MOTAT

Event listed by: MOTAT

Did you know that all complex mechanisms are created from combinations of six simple machines?

From April 6-22, MOTAT is offering a holiday experience that will get kids to put on their inventing caps and learn how to create crazy contraptions using levers, wedges, inclined planes, pulleys, screws, wheels and axles.

With a flying fox showcasing the magic of pulleys, incredible catapults demonstrating the mechanics of levers and a railway hand jigger making its way around MOTAT, kids and parents alike will have fun learning how simple machines are used in everyday life.

And have you ever heard of a Rube Goldberg machine? It’s when a very simple task is performed by a machine in an overly complicated way, like the contraption in the popular board game Mousetrap.

MOTAT will be giving kids and parents the chance to help create one, using simple machines to make Crazy Contraptions! Get there!