BASF - Happy Creepy Halloween

Start your Halloween celebration early with special Halloween-themed activities in the Ingenuity Lab and Animal Discovery Room. Pumpkins will fly during this annual outdoor event featuring our friends from UC Berkeley’s Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) program. Join us on the Hall’s C-level lawn and watch as a giant trebuchet sends pumpkins flying across the sky. Learn about the engineering behind this fun, and messy, demonstration.

In the Ingenuity Lab, use the basics of engineering and physics to design your own hydraulic lifts. Then, grab some pumpkins and test the strength of your hydraulic creation in this Halloween-themed activity for all ages. The Hall’s Animal Discovery Room is also getting in the Hall-oween spirit with the help of some of our spookier Animal Ambassadors. Check out our collection of animal skeletons and brains, help us sort through mealworms (if you dare), and meet some of our creepier animals to learn the science behind their unique characteristics.