Summer Your Way

While COVID-19 has temporarily closed Sci-Tech Discovery Center’s physical space, it hasn’t kept its staff from coming up with exciting ideas on how to meet its audience online and share the museum’s Mind-Stretching Fun® with kids.

Now the museum looks to the summer with “Summer Your Way” virtual and outreach birthday parties, WOW stage shows and “Campin’-In” classes. The entire Summer Your Way catalog of offerings will be released on Sci-Tech’s website on Friday, May 15.

Here is June’s lineup of free online classes. All virtual programs must be registered for in advance online.

June Mini-MAKER Design Challenges
Pizza Dough Challenge: June 5 at 10:30am
Why is pizza so delicious? Why does pizza dough need to rise? Should pizza dough ferment overnight? What is fermentation? These questions and more will be answered in our Starting Line Webinar (June 5 at 10:30am) Then it's off to design your entry. Entries are due June 8-12 for a special showcase June 13 & 14 on Sci-Tech's social media.

Cookie Challenge: June 19 at 10:30am
Jump on board the quarantine bread dough wagon with our Starting Line webinar. Then it’s off to the races as you invent and make your own cookie creation. How will you change the variables to put a twist on the classics? Starting Line webinar begins June 19 at 10:30am CST. Then it’s a race to see what you will invent. Entries due June 22-26 for a special showcase June 27 & 28 on Sci-Tech's social media.

Kitchen Chemistry Webinars
Nature of Dye: June 12 at 10:30am
Learn the science behind dyes and paints and try your hand at it.

pH Cabbage Experiment: June 26 at 10:30am
Create your own pH indicator from cabbage juice and experiment with liquids around the kitchen.

Preschool Science Time: Read, Play, Do
Join for singing, dancing, activities and a good book at 11am on Thursdays June 4: Little Cloud
June 11: The Mixed Up Chameleon
June 18: The Foolish Tortoise
June 25: The Artist That Painted a Blue Horse