Monday
30
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Student Field Trips
Event Time: Daily 8 AM to dusk
Dates: Sunday, January 01, 2012 - Monday, December 31, 2012
Location: Fantastic Caverns
Admission: Child group (20 pax min to 60 pax max) $6.00 - Adult group (20 pax min to 60 pax max) $16.50
55-minute, all riding educational cave tour.
http://www.fantasticcaverns.com
417 833-2010
RACE: Are We So Different?
Event Time:
Dates: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - Sunday, September 09, 2012
Location: Discovery Center - 438 E. St. Louis Street - Springfield, MO
Admission: call for details
Looking through the eyes of history, science, and lived experience, RACE: Are We So Different? explores similarities and differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story behind RACE: Are We So Different? is complex and may challenge how you think about race and human variation, about the differences among people and the similarities that unite us all.
http://www.discoverycenter.org
417 862-9910 ext.713
GirlPower!
Event Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Dates: Monday, July 30, 2012 - Thursday, August 02, 2012
Location: Discovery Center of Springfield - 438 E. St. Louis Street - Springfield, Missouri 65806 - -
Admission: $150 members, $175 non-members. Pre-register by Friday, July 27th
Join us for a special workshop just for girls! What in your DNA makes you a girl? (the XX Chromosome was discovered by a woman!) - Spa Science - learn the chemistry behind spa essentials like bath fizzers and salts. Explore color by building your own drawbot (drawing robot) and designing a shirt using chromatography. The science behind nail polish - magnets, color changing, crackle. Toy and game design. Use the scientific method to examine polymers - one to give off good smells, and one to absorb nasty ones. Female scientist/inventor of the day and coordinating activities for each. -
http://www.discoverycenter.org
417 862-9910 ext.713