Participants design freestanding structures that must withstand movement, wind, and added weight!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

Participants investigate how different materials bend, break, or hold under stress by designing and testing small structures made from a single material!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

For this week’s activity, participants build and test structures using simple materials to explore how different shapes distribute weight and resist collapse!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

For this week’s activity, inspired by Shirley Ann Jackson, participants will build a send-and-receive circuit to explore how electrical signals communicate messages!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

For this week’s activity, inspired by Lewis Latimer, explore how electricity becomes light by creating your own light-up circuit art!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

For this week’s activity, inspired by Garrett Morgan, explore how cities use circuits to manage safety at scale by building a traffic light circuit with red, yellow, and green LEDs!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

For this week’s activity, inspired by Marie Van Brittan Brown, participants will build a simple alarm circuit that activates when a “door” opens!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

SDSMT scientists Laura and Alex lead a live demonstration on how good bacteria helps to create yogurt!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

Discover the science behind one of the oldest food-making techniques!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

Discover how heat and chemistry transform food in a fast, sensory-rich investigation into food chemistry and cooking science!

Morning Session: 10:30am - 11:00am

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-2:30pm

Learn how crystals grow by making your own sugar crystal starter!

Explore how yeast makes bread rise in a quick and memorable introduction to chemical reactions!

Use mirrors, angles, and flashlights to guide a beam of light through a custom-built maze!

Design and build a glowing winter lantern- a perfect blend of art, engineering, and seasonal magic!

Create your own colorful “stained glass” masterpiece and experiment with how light shines through different colors and shapes!

Join us on Saturday, November 22 to become a problem solver by designing water solutions!

Join us on Saturday, November 15th to learn how scientists track water pollution and map it to see patterns!

Become a water engineer!

In this mini-lab, design your own water filter and see how well it can clean dirty water.

Join us for STEAM Saturdays for youth.

Join us for a colorful and creative STEAM event where students will explore the art of tie-dye! Using a variety of rainbow-colored dyes, they’ll craft their own unique galaxy designs on t-shirts.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Join us for STEAM Saturdays for youth.

Join us for an exciting STEAM event focused on paleontology! Students will explore the fascinating history of stratigraphic layers and discover how scientists use these layers to uncover ancient life.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Join us for an exciting STEAM event all about volcanoes! Students will get hands-on as they build their own volcanic models using plaster, creating realistic structures that mimic the dynamic nature of eruptions.  

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Join us for an engaging STEAM learning event focused on mastering basic math operations! Explore addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through many interactive methods.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Creating snowflake cutouts during the holiday season is a delightful way to blend art and science! Imagine transforming simple paper into a winter wonderland, where each unique snowflake reflects the magic of nature.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Learning about stratigraphy is like becoming a detective of Earth’s history! Imagine peeling back layers of time, just like opening a giant geological cake. Students can embark on hands-on adventures, creating their own sedimentary layers using colorful sand or soil, discovering how each layer tells a story about past environments.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Exploring galaxy formations through the lens of magnetism is a thrilling journey into the cosmos! Imagine creating your own mini-universe using magnets to simulate how galaxies are born and evolve

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Dive into the world of mad science experiments, where curiosity meets creativity in the most exhilarating ways! Imagine mixing colorful concoctions that fizz and bubble, launching homemade rockets that soar to the sky, or creating slime that stretches and squishes.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Welcome to the exciting world of weather forecasting! We are going to become weather detectives and learn how to predict the weather using simple tools and observations.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Learning about Earth’s seasons is an exciting adventure that brings nature to life!

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Join us for STEAM Saturdays for youth starting in October.

We are going to dive into the fun of building our own circuits and see how electricity flows to power different things.

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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Join us for STEAM Saturdays for youth starting in October.

Get in the Halloween spirit with our levitating "jack-o-lanterns."

Program is free for members or with price of admission for non-members.

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