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Depending on your interests and timeframe, here are some ideas:

- Teach them about color theory with three flashlights and a red, green, and blue gel taped over each one. Then, kill the lights and show them how additive color turns things white. For added fun, bring a water bottle and red, green, and blue food dye. Dye the water black with the dyes to show subtractive color... then chug the water and "die on stage".

- You mentioned drones... literally just bring a drone.

- Buy a some piece of wood from AC Moore and hot gun some components and a battery pack to simulate how electricity flows (battery to switch to led to battery). Add some permanent marker to point out the components

- I once bought an LED foam sword from Wal-Mart and took it apart in class to show the same thing as the LED board suggestion

- In a similar vein, any kids Arduino/Raspberry Pi project

- You also mentioned photography, so if you're willing to have kids touch your camera equipment, you could show them different ISO/aperture/exposure settings

- There are also Scratch/Snap!/CodeCombat exercises out there



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