Girl Scouts: Roller Coaster Science (Daisy)

Girl Scouts: Roller Coaster Science Sunday, February 28 | 9:30-11 a.m. OR 1-2:30 p.m. | Ticket Required | Daisy Explore how motion and speed work together to earn your Daisy Roller Coaster Design Challenge Badge. What You'll Do Get ready for a thrilling ride through science and engineering! In this hands-on adventure, Girl Scouts will: Explore the relationship between motion and speed and how those two work together by experimenting with ramps, slopes, and curves. Learn how gravity, kinetic energy, and momentum affect how fast or slow things move. Design and build a mini roller coaster car prototype using creative materials. Work in small groups to create your own marble roller coaster track—with twists, turns, and maybe even a loop! Test your marble on the track and refine your design to improve performance and fun. Solve problems and try new ideas, just like real roller coaster designers do. Earn your Daisy Roller Coaster Design Challenge Badge by completing the challenge and showing what you’ve learned! Badge Information This event is for Daisy Girl Scouts to earn their Roller Coaster Design Challenge Badge. The badge can be purchased for $3 on the registration page. If you decide to purchase the badge from us, you will receive it at check-in. Where You'll Go This event takes place in our classroom workshop space located on Level 1. We will meet in the Welcome Center and walk over together as a group. Registration Details All program participants and adults must register. Youth must be accompanied by a registered adult for the duration of the program. This event does not include nonmember museum admission. If you have purchased tickets to the museum or have a membership, you are welcome to stay in the museum after the events ends.