Launch Lab
Learn by building and discovering in our STEM tinkerspace
Complete with open worktop spaces, maker challenges, tools, and equipment, the Launch Lab at Morehead is where creativity and curiosity meet.
Visitors can participate in self-guided activities designed to promote discovery and exploration through hands-on, maker-centered activities. Morehead staff are present to provide assistance (like helping you use equipment) and to teach skills such as soldering.
Launch Lab schedule
During the weekends, access to the Launch Lab is available with each admission ticket (unless reserved for a special event). During our summer schedule, the Launch Lab is reserved for camps Tuesday to Friday.
Groups & Educators
For Grades 3-12
Length: 45 minutes
Maximum participants: 30 students per session
Group Visit/Field Trip Add-On
Play with balance, stability, and centers of gravity by arranging everyday objects into surprising and complex sculptures! Students will practice conceptualizing and modeling a design by drawing it out before building.
This class pairs well with a Phenomenal Physics Science LIVE! demonstration.
Grade Level Recommendations: Grades 3-8 (ideal for homeschool groups)
Light pollution affects animals, astronomers, and human health. Learn about this growing issue and how efforts such as designing better streetlights can help to solve it. Students will create simple circuits and use light-measuring equipment to test their original lamp designs.
This program pairs well with a Carolina Skies show and an exploration of the Cosmic Quest exhibit.
Grade Level Recommendations: Grades 6-12
What does our Solar System really look like? How do we know? In this hands-on adventure, students become NASA engineers as they design, build, and test interplanetary landers that are needed to explore rocky worlds like Mars.
This program pairs well with the Mars: The Ultimate Voyage show.
Grade Level Recommendations: Grades 3-8 (ideal for homeschool groups)
Explore aviation like never before! Students will create paper airplanes and witness the mechanics of flight right before their very eyes. Learners will become engineers and artists, making improvements to their designs and crafting folded aerial flyers that travel the room, right towards the bullseye!
This programs pairs well with the Take Flight show.
Grade Level Recommendations: Grades 3-8 (ideal for homeschool groups)