IMPRINTS IN SCIENCE / JUNE 2015

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Crime Lab Detective's Last Weekend!

Can you catch the culprit?!              

 
 

Crime Lab Detective Leaves Us May 31st!

 

Crime Lab Detective is an exciting exhibition designed to help you put your thinking cap on. You will have to collect evidence while you explore the scene of the crime. After that, you'll need to put it all together to figure out who the culprit is! Come show off your star detective skills!

 

Hurry! This weekend is the last weekend to experience this exciting exhibition. Do you know how DNA works? Come out on Saturday, May 30th, at 2pm, to see a special demonstration of DNA Detective! 

 

 

 

Crime Lab Detective is sponsored by:

 

Frye Regional Medical Center

Alex Lee

MDI

Lowes Foods

CommScope

The Beaver Foundation


  
  
Summer Fun
Science Camps! 

 

Catawba Science Center is excited to unveil the 2015 Summer Fun Science Camps. Enroll your child into Catawba Science Center's Summer Fun Camps, and watch your child discover the joys of science and wonder for themselves! CSC's Summer Fun is aimed toward rising Pre-K - 9th grade, though campers must be at least 4 years old, with a multitude of classes aimed at every age group within that range.

 

Join CSC's own Lead Naturalist Bruce Beerbower in a class teaching all about what it takes to become a naturalist, or take a class to learn about the different galaxies scattered all around the universe. Campers can even embark on an African Safari, find out what the deal is with electricity and, of course, learn about dinosaurs!

 

CSC's Summer Fun is more flexible than ever. Now with hands-on SciFun classes, Sunrise Science and Afternoon Adventure options, it is easier than ever to work Summer Fun Science Camps into even the busiest schedules. Not to mention, after 6 SciFun classes have been purchased, a 7th SciFun class is awarded to the camper for free! Furthermore, every SciFun camper will receive a free t-shirt!

 

Summer Fun runs from June 15 to August 21. 
 

For a brochure and registration form about Summer Fun, please visit:

 

http://www.catawbascience.org/education/summer-fun/   

RaceWays - ReImagined!

                       

Thanks to recent funding from this year's Italian Dinner fundraising event, the exhibition is in the process of being reinvented and will emerge as a new updated exhibition on May 30th. The new RaceWays will have many new features, including two adjustable roller coaster - like tracks.

 

When it reopens, RaceWays will have many exciting new features, including two adjustable rollercoaster-like tracks. RaceWays is and will continue to be a very hands-on exhibition, educating visitors on the laws of physics and motion with tangible, fun examples. When visitors change the shape of the track, they will see just how that effects the balls rolling along the tracks. Also part of the new RaceWays is "The Big U", "Loop the Loop", "Ski Jump", and "Hit the Bucket".

 

Catawba Science Center offers a big thank you to Italian Dinner Fund-A-Cause donors and others who contributed to this exciting project!

  
 
THEY'RE COMING!!

Dinosaurs are coming to Catawba Science Center! Come take in the great behemoths from our prehistoric past, at Catawba Science Center starting on June 16th. The exhibition will feature not just dinosaurs, but also an exciting base camp for visitors to experience the life of a paleontologist.

 

Visitors can experience the full might of the dinosaurs outside the base camp, and learn all about our prehistoric past inside the base camp. The base camp will feature dinosaur figurines, fossil examinations, contemporary research, what it means to be a professional paleontologist and so much more!

 

 

 

 

Spread The Word!!

Free Friday
  
 June 19

 

General admission sponsored by:

 Rotary Club of Lake Hickory

CommunityOne 



 

Dinosaur Expedition on the Horizon!

 

August 2 - 9, 2015 (Sunday - Sunday)

 

Join Bruce Beerbower, CSC's Lead Naturalist and Dr. John Foster, Director of the Moab in Moab Utah for a once in a life time experience.  (Previously John was Chief Paleontologist at the Museum of Western Colorado.) Become a Paleontologist for a week! We will explore sites of the Great American West including canyons, buttes, and mesas; Dead Horse Point, Canyonlands and Arches National Park. We will prospect for dinosaur bones and other fossils, walk in dinosaur tracks, work at a dinosaur dig site, and view Native American rock art.  The week will end with a rafting trip on the Colorado River and visit to Dinosaur National Monument.

 

Price: $3400.00/members         $3700.00/non-members

 

Registration Deadline: June 10, 2015

($2050.00 of fees due at that time.)

 (Balance due by July 15, 2015.)

 

Recommended for Adults and Youth

(12 years and up with guardian)

 

Minimum:  6 participants.  Limited to 11 participants.

NOTE: If minimum is not reached by June 15, amount paid will be refunded.

            

 

Price includes Bruce's excellent guide service, airfare at current prices,all ground transportation, 7 nights motel lodging, 6 field lunches, 6 breakfasts, 2 dinners; park and museum admissions fees, rafting trip, and surprises!

      

* If airfare increases, that will be added to participant's fees.*

 

If participants use "frequent flier miles" the amount of projected airfare will be deducted from registration fees.

 

Contact Bruce for full itinerary or additional details:

(828)322-8169 ext. 308 or [email protected]


 

      
             

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

 
CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS
SCIENCE STYLE

Catawba Science Center offers a variety of engaging and educational birthday party packages for children ages 3 to 12. 

  

Fun, hands-on activities with these exciting science themes Flower Power, Seashore Celebration, Meet the Animals, Science Magic, Out of this World and Dino-Mite.

 

Happy Birthday to everyone who celebrated their special day at CSC:

 

May 2015 


 

 Maci Andras, Lusia Chaffee, Karson Dellinger,

Graham Miton, Austin Shumate, Brooklyn Watson

 


 

 

   

Click here for details about CSC's Birthday Party Packages