Highmark SportsWorks®
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Overview
Pittsburgh. Many would agree that there isn't a bigger sports town around, and Pittsburghers nurture their young to embrace that proud legacy. But did you know that a passion for sports can be used as a gateway to talk about the topics of physics, anatomy, biology, and even chemistry?
That's the whole idea behind Carnegie Science Center's Highmark SportsWorks®: to inspire learning and curiosity by uniting the experience of sports for every age level with the laws of science that control sports.
Highmark SportsWorks® offers nearly 30 interactive experiences in three thematic areas: LifeWorks, Physics of Sports, and Sports Challenge.
LifeWorks conveys the fundamental science of, and latest information on, the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle.
- Choose from different snacks and compare how long it takes to burn off the calories of each while pedaling a hand cycle at Calorie Cycle. Peer inside the human body using X-ray, CT, and MRI scans with innovative touch-screen technology in the BodyScan exhibit.
- Go on a wild simulator ride into the human body with Body Cam, where you will explore cutting-edge surgical techniques.
In Physics of Sports, visitors put their inner daredevil to the test.
- Become a human yo-yo at the new You-Yo, an exhibit that demonstrates the principle of potential and kinetic energy by whisking visitors high in the air, up and back down-and then up again by pulling on cable-tethered handles.
- Scale a 25-foot Rock Wall.
- Get fastened into a bungee harness and do some high-flying tricks on Bounce.
- Pedal a unicycle high above the exhibit gallery on High Cycle.
Sports Challenge gives visitors a chance to be part of the game.
- Compare your time against that of Olympic silver medalist and local track star Lauryn Williams in Olympic Sprint.
- Test your reaction speed against an ice hockey goalie at Reaction Time Hockey.
- See just how fast your fastball is in a Pitching Cage with radar.
- Adjust your center of gravity to 'hang ten' on Skateboard Stability.
SportsWorks® is a registered trademark of Carnegie Science Center. Highmark® is a registered trademark of Highmark Inc.