Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre has built out from its electricity demonstrations—featuring a 7-foot Tesla coil that sparks and crackles with power—to create a new Energy Show that explores the roles of energy in our lives.
The Energy Show, an interactive stage performance, revolves around the fictional Aunt Tess who requires the audience’s assistance with a top secret mission. Guided by an Ontario Science Centre presenter, audiences help Aunt Tess with energy-related research by making hypotheses, conducting experiments, uploading data and testing very unique equipment.
The Energy Show was created, researched and developed in-house by the Science Centre’s team of scientists, educators, designers and craftspeople. The team consulted with leading experts, including the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), the Science Centre’s Lead Supporter.
