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• CuriosiTeens

  • Start
    30 Nov 2017
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  • End
    27 Sep 2018
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  • Schedule
    15 sessions
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center

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  Ages 10 and up:

  Join us year round, every last Thursday of the month at 3:30 - 5:00 PM or
  GIRLS ONLY: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

  Do you like exciting experiments? Awesome adventures? Fantastic fun? Become a part of CuriosiTeens!
  

  Explore cool hands-on activities, go on adventures, design your own research project, or bring a science cafe to our community and meet special guests. Start your STEM* journey with us. (*Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

  Topics:

  • July 26: Forensic Science - Solve the Mystery
    – Solve a murder mystery from evidence left behind on a crime scene
  • June 28: Crash Scene Investigation
    – Meet Sarah Schumacher, SD Highway Patrol trooper, pilot, and flight instructor. Try out your detective skills while investigating a crash scene, explore the physics of a crash by measuring skid marks, determine the speed of the vehicles involved, and find out how and why you use a drag sled
  • May 31: Forensic Science
    – Investigate a crime scene and explore how forensic scientist can solve mysteries by looking at DNA, fingerprints, blood, and other clues
  • April 26: Molecular Gastronomy
    – How to make a special dinner using spherification
  • March 29: Earth Hour Special
    – find out why sea turtles are amazing, what special adaptations let them survive for millions of years and why there existence is threatened now 
  • February 22: Storytelling with Maps 2 "Let's take action!" 
    – See the consequences of over population and find out what you can do to save endangered species with National Geographic Education
  • January 25: Storytelling with Maps "We've got the whole world in our hands" 
    – Explore the power of images and get a foundation in Geo-Literacy with National Geographic Education
    
  • December 28: Christmas Chemistry
    – Explore the stages of matter by making a bubbling snow globe 
  • November 30: Explorer Science
    – A night with our special guest Anne Lewis, National Geographic Arctic Explorer
  • October 26: Halloween Science
    – How to make an illuminated sugar skull using sewable electronics
  • September 28: Science of Flight
    – How to make a bat skin kite using silicone rubber and 3Doodler
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• Starry Saturday Planetarium Show

  • Start
    28 Apr 2018
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  • End
    8 Sep 2018
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center

  

  Our digital planetarium is open to the public the second and forth Saturday of each month!  Show topics vary depending on the presenter (Greek or Lakota constellations, the moon, deep space objects, etc.).  It’s fun for the whole family. All ages welcome!

  Free with paid admission.  Members free. 

  
  

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