The Wisconsin Energy Institute and Wisconsin’s K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) are excited to bring the KidWind Educator Workshop to Menomonie as a post Wisconsin Science Fest event! Join us in Fulton’s Workshop, Dunn County Historical Society’s exciting Makerspace, and learn how to explore the power of wind and solar with your students! Workshop Description: … Continued
The Northeast Wisconsin American Chemical Society and the Oshkosh Public Library are joining together to provide hands-on science for kids and their families. Activities will be related to the National Chemistry Week theme of Picture Perfect Chemistry to help kids learn about properties of light, colors, and imaging. In addition, kids will learn about the … Continued
The hour-long program will include a live presentation of the current night sky of Central Wisconsin, followed by a fulldome show about the nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The Sun has shone on our world for four and a half … Continued
Use balloons and masking tape to build the tallest freestanding tower. It’s trickier than it sounds…are you up to the challenge? Check out more events at the Kenosha Public Library – Southwest here!
Join Welty Environmental Center and the Rock County Beekeepers Association for a free, family-friendly event! Learn all about bees and bee keeping by interacting with a demonstration hive while trying out the smoker in a beekeeper suit. There will also be bee crafts and honey samples to take home!
Fun for the whole family! Come for a short storytime that explores simple science, technology, engineering, and math concepts. Then stay for playful hands-on learning.
Visit the Monona Public Library and learn about sustainability through hands-on experiments with Millipore Sigma’s Curiosity Cube! The Curiosity Cube is a retrofitted shipping container that has been transformed into a mobile science lab. Inside the Curiosity Cube visitors of all ages experience: *Hands-on science experiments *New technology *Interactions with real life scientists *Participation is … Continued
Dive hands-on into the world of agriculture at the Farm Wisconsin Science Festival. Held at the Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center – a state-of-the-art agriculture education facility – this event is perfect for the whole family. Guests will explore how food, fuel, and fiber are produced through interactive demonstrations, activities, and learning stations. The diversity of … Continued
The Schreiner Memorial Library will have activities scheduled each weekday during the Wisconsin Science Festival (Oct 14-20), from 4 to 5:30 pm, for children of all ages to participate in. Saturday October 19, there will be take and make science kits available for fun at home on the weekend and beyond! Activities will include virtual … Continued
Join Waukesha County Land Conservancy’s Land Management Director, Helen Holtz, to learn about turtles of Wisconsin and how we can best help them. In Wisconsin, we are lucky to have 11 species of turtles. However, due to habitat loss and other human impacts, turtle populations across the state are in decline. During the event, you … Continued
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