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Program(s) for starting 05/22/2022
Jellybot: Soft, Aquatic, Bio-inspired Engineering (Ages: 9-12)
10:30 AM
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybot
Location: Classroom
Advance: 50 (members), 50 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 75 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsJellybot: Soft, Aquatic, Bio-inspired Engineering (Ages: 12-15)
1:00 PM
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Jellybot
Location: Classroom
Advance: 50 (members), 50 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 75 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: Balance
10:30 AM
We’ll read the delightful book Just a Little Bit about friends both large and small on a teeter totter. Young families will then use the museum’s balances to compare and…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsJellyBot: Robotic Jellyfish
11:30 AM
Particularly designed for participants of JellyBot Workshops 1 & 2, in this final part of the JellyBot series you will be able to customize and pilot a professionally-engineered Jellyfish-inspired robot in our water tanks. You will design the top of the Jellyfish to create a shape that best allows the JellyBot to swim around the tank in a series of challenges, and work together to develop a system of controls to steer the JellyBot around. Chances are you’ll get a little wet…again!
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays
Cost: Free
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: Shape and Image
10:30 AM
Explore how simple shapes can be rearranged to make endless combinations after reading Windblown by Edouard Manceau.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: Shape and images
10:30 AM
Explore how simple shapes can be rearranged to make endless combinations after reading Windblown by Edouard Manceau.
Audience: Children, Families, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: Worms
10:30 AM
After meeting the worm and caterpillar that star in the book Bob and Otto by Robert Bruel we’ll have a chance to meet and examine a live worm up close.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsHomeschool Earth Science for Ages: 6-8
10:30 AM
Why does Earth have so many different types of rocks? We’ll explore the rock cycle using the Montshire’s rock collection, comparing igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how they can transform from one type of rock into another. We’ll do (some messy) experiments on weathering and erosion; and get to examine some of our special collections of fossils and meteorites. This program has three required sessions on November 1, 8, & 15 2022.
Audience: Children, Homeschool Earth Science
Advance: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: This program includes three required sessions.
View Event DetailsHomeschool Earth Science for Ages: 9-12
1:00 PM
Why does Earth have so many different types of rocks? We’ll explore the rock cycle using the Montshire’s rock collection, comparing igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how they can transform from one type of rock into another. We’ll do (some messy) experiments on weathering and erosion; and get to examine some of our special collections of fossils and meteorites. This program has three required sessions on November 1, 8, & 15 2022.
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Homeschool Earth Science
Advance: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
Event Notes: This program includes three required sessions.
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