Ontario Community Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), December 17, 1975, p. 28

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Wed December 17 Push pull smell sniff see squint lift turn lean walk The Ontario Science Centre Toronto is a complex of three inter connected buildings situated in the geographic heart of Metropolitan Toronto One of the Centre s three buildings sits on the only knoll this part of the Don Valley Another building is feet below on the valley floor The three concrete structures contain more than square feet of floor space Exhibits in the Science Centre have been designed to be used by the visitor creating an environ of interaction and involve Thus learning fun The Centre staff receives plenty of feedback from visitors but this student s comment seemed the most fitting A feature by Roy Downs Someone once had idea that science and technology could bo fun which It is if you visit Ihe Ontario Sclcrce Centre in Toronto Here you can learn to do by doing Officially called the Con tennial Centre of Science and Technology the Ontario Science Centre as started in 1967 and opened in 1969 as the Province of Ontario a major west of the Don Valley and is rosily from the North area via Highway If you ve been there this article may refresh your constantly changing and there Is always something new to sec at the Science Centre If you never been put It on your list of oneday trips and go soon its a day you II never forget During the Christmas holidays would be a great time to go Centre is open seven diys week Day is only exception from m to The Centre a complex of buildings containing more than square feet of floor space The buildings acres in a park like setting which takes in acres It has been called the museum of the century but the Science Centre is not really a museum Mother than being a repository for storage and display of tlfacls the emphasis is on interpretative exhibits of scientific prinuples and no leal achievements Most of the exhibits ire designed to be used the visitor thus creating environment of interacton and involvement There arc no taboos cameras so take yours it and snap away What to do- Play games that lest your perception your memory your and your res Figure nut how technology can trick the eye and fool your inner ear Simulate moon landing try using mechinical hands ride i gyro see a laser in action figure out pulleys piny tic Iul to with a test reaction time in listen to If on see yourself on i I ki to tin hydro show a in organ spi chits bang with resounes it I There thin I exhibits in I the s stiff iinniMrs an You find working right in halls like the model printer and treadle operator They r friendly and knowledge so iry them if you don iters land loodavailnbt and are offered to fit any from vinous snick THE COMPUTER is programmed to play game of Tic Tac Toe with you But watch out it never loses SOUND focussing discs allow a whisper at one end to be heard clearly across the room 36 yards away in a similar disc B hard you in see yourself on TV make lights Hash or start a musical tape

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