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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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Events starting 01/24/2022
Homeschool Series: Insect Investigations for ages 6-8 (3 part series begins)
10:30 AM
Discover insect diversity and adaptations, while meeting a new live insect at each class. Explore their behaviors and life cycles and examine them up close using magnifying…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Program is canceled
View Event DetailsHomeschool Series: Insect Investigations for ages 9-12 (3 part series begins)
1:00 PM
Discover insect diversity and adaptations, while meeting a new live insect at each class. Explore their behaviors and life cycles and examine them up close using magnifying…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Program is canceled
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Mirrors
10:30 AM
Families will have the chance to use mirrors to solve ingenious puzzles in the book M is for Mirror by Duncan Burmingham. After the story you’ll get to experiment with…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: The Skinny on Garden Pests and Diseases
1:00 PM
Learn about current and emerging pests and plant diseases in the garden and landscape that can impact the home gardener. Ann will also discuss the best approach to management…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Program offered on Zoom
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Wiggle Bots
10:30 AM
Join us as we read the book Stop! Bot! by James Wang. Afterward, we’ll have fun building our own fences to keep scurrying mechanical bots under control.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: The Montshire Moose
10:30 AM
Meet the bull moose in the Discovering the Natural World exhibition as we read Looking for a Moose by Phyllis Root. We’ll then have the chance to practice our own tracking…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Let’s Drive
10:30 AM
Experiment with creating gravity-powered toy cars after reading Mo Willem’s book Let’s Go for a Drive.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Box and Blocks
10:30 AM
Let your imagination run wild as we read Not a Box by Antoinette Portis. After the story, we’ll get creative using cardboard and tools.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Bedrock Gardens: An Oasis of Art, Horticulture, and Inspiration
1:00 PM
Explore the history of Bedrock Gardens, a dairy farm turned into a remarkable garden oasis by founders Jill Nooney and Bob Munger. Today the garden is evolving into a premier…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Will be held on Zoom
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
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