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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 02/20/2022
Feb
24
Program
Science 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 DetailsMar
01
Program
Hanover 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
View Event DetailsMar
03
Program
Science Story Time: Rockets
10:30 AM
Learn about the parts of a moon rocket in Tony Mitton’s Roaring Rockets, then make your own stomp rocket to launch skyward.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMar
12
Special Event
Color Celebration
10:30 AM
Experience the wonder of color in science!
Audience: Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMar
14
Program
Homeschool Series: Rolling with Physics for ages 6-8 (3 part series begins)
10:30 AM
Explore forces and motions as we test out a variety of balls and other objects that roll. Each week in this drop-off program will feature an engineering and building challenge.
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location:
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsMar
24
Program
Science Story Time: Fish Fun
10:30 AM
Relax surrounded by the aquariums in Life in Local Waters as we read the book Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris. After the story time we’ll create our own patterned paper fish to…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMar
24
Program
Homeschool series: Sustainable Engineering for ages 8-11 (4 part series begins)
10:30 AM
Combine engineering design and alternative energy strategies, as we create cardboard structures and fit them with solar, wind and other sustainable energy solutions! In each…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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24
Program
Homeschool series: Sustainable Engineering for ages 12-15 (4 part series begins)
1:00 PM
Combine engineering design and alternative energy strategies, as we create cardboard structures and fit them with solar, wind and other sustainable energy solutions! In each…
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsApr
05
Program
Hanover Garden Club: Floral Designs Inspired By Fabulous New England Gardens
1:00 PM
Join Thelma Shoneman in this program, which features floral designs inspired by four New England gardens: Coastal Maine Botanical Garden; Hildene in Vermont; Tower Hill Botanic…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
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