Can you navigate through shipwrecks, pilot a simulated underwater vehicle, or escape a virtual building?
Explore Your World
Complete a quest across land and sea to Explore your World. Use coordinates to play a giant game of Battleship, navigate using the stars, and use sonar to scan your friends.
Undertake a quest across land, sea, and space to explore the role of mapping and navigation in everyday life. Visitors will find the seven 'quest' stations to solve puzzles and collect different parts of their own map, which can then be viewed and brought to life through augmented reality.
Mapping and navigation have been at the heart of the human experience since the dawn of our species, underpinning advancements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) over millennia.
In Explore Your World, visitors will use different navigational tools and techniques to find their way through dangerous reefs and shipwrecks, escape a virtual building in an emergency, and pilot a simulated underwater exploration vehicle. They can operate a real sonar scanner to map themselves and their friends, or take on the challenge of a giant game of Battleships.
Throughout Explore Your World visitors will be captivated in the quest to explore cities, oceans, and the night sky. They will also develop their own mapping skills as they complete the quest map and uncover hidden layers of information.
highlights:
The need to understand and explore our world drives developments in science and technology.
Math provides the framework to map our surroundings.
Maps are layers of data that help us to visualize the world and how it works.
There are many useful and inspiring careers using mapping, navigation, and data visualization.