Take Your Kids To Work Day
Join uCity Square for the 2nd Annual
Take Your Kids to Work Day on Thursday, April 24, 2025
Enjoy exciting STEM activities and hands-on workshops that inspire creativity, along with delicious lunch from the food trucks at The Lawn. Kids will have the chance to shadow their parents/guardians at work and explore the University of Pennsylvania, including the Penn Museum and Penn Athletics.
This fun-filled event is free and open to all uCity tenants and the public but you must pre-register. Don’t miss out!
FirstHand
GuarGum Slime Lab Challenge: Create your own guar gum slime and compare it to slimes that you have made before!
Penn Medicine (MAPS and PBSC)
Elephant Toothpaste Experiment: The Elephant Toothpaste Experiment is a fun chemical reaction that produces a large, foamy eruption of bubbles— this is caused by rapidly decomposing hydrogen peroxide using a catalyst like yeast.
Coded By
Startup Spark: Explore Tech Roles --An immersive experience for students, diving into various tech professions and getting a firsthand look at the tech startup environment.
Nafees Innovation
Cells to Cures: Compete do make the purest product with a "therapeutic medicine" using activated yeast to mimic cells, and sand and charcoal to build filters
CIC
Hands-on Laboratory experiment, TBA
Drexel Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Build It & Pitch It! Marshmallow Architecture Challenge: teams will collaborate to design and build their structure, considering stability, function, and creativity. Once construction is complete, each group will give a 1-minute presentation explaining their design choices. A winner will be selected based on innovation, structural integrity, and storytelling.
Exponent Engineering
Clip & Conduct: in this hands-on engineering project, make your own working motor with things you would find in your house!
