Next Sunday August 30 we’re hosting a virtual event about Rube Goldberg and simple machines, then introducing our very own Rube Goldberg Machine DIY Challenge! Click here to view event information.

This summer, the Discovery Center took our monthly guest speaker series online. Our educator Dave McDonald kicked off our virtual Super Stellar Friday back in June, with his presentation on the summer solstice. In July, our Membership and Volunteer Coordinator, Katie Marinoff, put her math degree to use by talking about the Pythagorean theorem, and in August, our Education Director, Mirka Zapletal, shared her doctoral research on carnivores along the Louisiana coast.

We had a lot of fun yesterday figuring out long-term changes in the environment of a location by looking at fossils from different periods in time- if you missed the guided virtual activity, the video is on our Facebook page here and you can find the downloadable documents here.

In this all-ages virtual event, participants will use fossil evidence to study ancient organisms and reconstruct the past environments (ecosystems) where they lived—accompanied by live guidance from our Director of Education! ​ Sunday, August 2 at 2:00 PM, on Facebook Live. Read this post to learn more.

The goal of the Artemis Program is "to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024... hopefully making advances that will allow us to someday send humans to Mars."​

Learn more about this history-making project in an exclusive virtual chat with speaker Patricia Moore, Museum Liaison for NASA's Deep Space Exploration Division!​ Click here to learn more about this upcoming virtual event, Tuesday, August 11 at 2:00 PM.

Join us Friday, August 7 at 7:00 PM as we explore the impact of climate change on local ecosystems in the next Virtual Super Stellar Friday!