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Featured Upcoming Event on October 28 at 5:30 pm
Spooky Science
This new event spotlights interactive and hands-on Halloween activities for families with children. Museum exhibits will be “tricked out” for Halloween fun.
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Science Yoga
11:30 AM
This full-body, playful program combines body awareness with an introduction to early science topics ranging from dinosaurs to planets. Feel free to BYOYM (bring-your-own-yoga-mat) or borrow one of ours.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Yoga
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: 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: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsScience Yoga
11:30 AM
This full-body, playful program combines body awareness with an introduction to early science topics ranging from dinosaurs to planets. Feel free to BYOYM (bring-your-own-yoga-mat) or borrow one of ours.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Yoga
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Yoga
11:30 AM
This full-body, playful program combines body awareness with an introduction to early science topics ranging from dinosaurs to planets. Feel free to BYOYM (bring-your-own-yoga-mat) or borrow one of ours.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Yoga
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsTogetherTime Tales: Caterpillar Craft
10:30 AM
Create your very own fuzzy caterpillar after reading the Eric Carle classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales
View Event DetailsScience Yoga
11:30 AM
This full-body, playful program combines body awareness with an introduction to early science topics ranging from dinosaurs to planets. Feel free to BYOYM (bring-your-own-yoga-mat) or borrow one of ours.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Yoga
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsJellybots: Underwater Propulsion
11:30 AM
Explore bio-inspired engineering in a 45-minute Sunday session.
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsJellybot: Soft, Aquatic, Bio-inspired Engineering (Ages: 9-12)
10:30 AM
In this three session program, Students will explore density, buoyancy, thrust, and other physics concepts through a variety of engineering design challenges using jellyfish and other aquatic organisms for inspiration. Throughout this process, they will collect and interpret data, test and redesign their device, and then take on a series of challenges. At the end of the program, students will pilot real-life robotic jellyfish created by local engineering firm, Creare LLC. **Enrollment for this program includes three sessions on Tuesdays, Oct. 11, 18, and 25
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
In this three session program, Students will explore density, buoyancy, thrust, and other physics concepts through a variety of engineering design challenges using jellyfish and other aquatic organisms for inspiration. Throughout this process, they will collect and interpret data, test and redesign their device, and then take on a series of challenges. At the end of the program, students will pilot real-life robotic jellyfish created by local engineering firm, Creare LLC. **Enrollment for this program includes three sessions on Tuesdays, Oct. 11, 18, and 25
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Jellybot
Location: Classroom
Advance: 50 (members), 50 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 75 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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