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Smart Use of Smart Devices in Your Home: A Hands-On Night of Learning
Have you seen stories about smart home devices being hacked or home guests making unauthorized purchases on smart speakers? Join a team of security & privacy researchers from Dartmouth and the SPLICE research team for a hands-on night of learning about smart home devices, vulnerabilities, and how to protect yourself from common security and privacy threats!Filter Events Click to access filters
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Program(s) for starting 10/10/2020
Homeschoolers Series: Superhero Science (ages 9-12)
1:00 PM
Up, Up, and engineer your way through a variety of challenges! Explore the science behind your favorite superhero or super-shero, build your own superhero action figures, and…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: We are currently only enrolling participants who live in Vermont due to Vermont travel restrictions.
View Event DetailsMessy Mixtures
10:30 AM
In this three-part in-person program for children ages 4-5 and an adult, we will mix, experiment and get messy with science. Each week we will focus on different experiments…
Audience: Children, Programs for Preschoolers
Cost: $60 (members), $70 (non-members)
Event Notes: Canceled
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Falling Leaves
10:30 AM
Celebrate the end of fall as we play and get creative with leaves. To get inspired, we’ll read about the adventures of Leaf Man in Lois Ehlert’s colorful book of leaf collages.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Air Play
10:30 AM
We’ll read the playful book Windblown by Edouard Manceau, then explore shapes and air as we build paper contraptions to blow in the wind.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsHealth Research Live! Vaccine Research and Initiatives
12:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on vaccinations in the larger conversation of public health. Elizabeth Talbot (New Hampshire’s Deputy State Epidemiologist) and…
Audience: Adults, Health Research Live!
Location: via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Air Play
10:30 AM
We’ll read the playful book Windblown by Edouard Manceau, then explore shapes and air as we build paper contraptions to blow in the wind.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Float Your Boat
10:30 AM
Build, test, and sink your own boat as we learn about balance and weight (along with the silly antics of some cute critters) in Pamela Allen’s Who Sank the Boat?
Audience: Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMini Makers Virtual Workshop: Light and Mirrors
9:00 AM
Join us in our Mini-Makers program all about the science of light and shadows, mirrors and reflections. This three-part virtual program is for children ages 4-5 and an adult to…
Audience: Children, Families, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsPlayful Patterns Virtual Workshop (for ages 6-8)
10:00 AM
From stripes on a crosswalk to stripes on a zebra, we live in a world of patterns. In this three-part maker-based series, we will explore the science, beauty and utility of…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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