Past Events
LED Clothespin Mummies
Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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LED Clothespin Mummies
Combine a classic clothespin with a battery, wires, LED lights, and various other crafting materials to create a spooky light-up mummy. Happy Halloween! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Space Shrinky Dinks
Celebrate advancements in space exploration with a shrinky dink you create in The Shop. Using thermoplastic, you can design your own object to shrink into a keychain, earrings, pendent, or whatever you can imagine. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Space Shrinky Dinks
Celebrate advancements in space exploration with a shrinky dink you create in The Shop. Using thermoplastic, you can design your own object to shrink into a keychain, earrings, pendent, or whatever you can imagine. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Exploration Station: Mars Rover
In this Exploration Station, participants will learn about how scientists and engineers use robotic rovers and other vehicles to explore distant worlds, and experience some of the challenges and teamwork required to navigate a rover across the surface of a planet millions of miles away. Players acting as “Mission Control” and a “Rover” must work together to navigate a large obstacle course. Participants can also design their own rover to overcome the particular challenges of exploring a distant planet.
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Astronomical Society of Nevada
Join our friends from the Astronomical Society of Nevada to view the moon and other planets up close. They’ll be in the museum’s parking lot with a variety of telescopes pointed at the heavens. Stop by to learn about the Society and find out why they are so passionate about looking out into space. Note: The viewing will take place outside The Discovery. Museum admission is not required to participate. About Astronomical Society of Nevada The mission of the Astronomical Society of…
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Exploration Station: Mars Rover 3-D Glasses
Did you know the Curiosity Mars rover takes 3-D photos by using its cameras like left and right eyeballs, snapping photos from two slightly different perspectives. When NASA tints the two images, one red and one blue, and combines them, we can see 3-D views of Mars. In this activity you’ll make your own pair of 3-D glasses you can use to look at stellar scenes from Earth to Mars and beyond.
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Space Shrinky Dinks
Celebrate advancements in space exploration with a shrinky dink you create in The Shop. Using thermoplastic, you can design your own object to shrink into a keychain, earrings, pendent, or whatever you can imagine. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Exploration Station: Mars Rover
In this Exploration Station, participants will learn about how scientists and engineers use robotic rovers and other vehicles to explore distant worlds, and experience some of the challenges and teamwork required to navigate a rover across the surface of a planet millions of miles away. Players acting as “Mission Control” and a “Rover” must work together to navigate a large obstacle course. Participants can also design their own rover to overcome the particular challenges of exploring a distant planet.
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Exploration Station: Mars Rover 3-D Glasses
Did you know the Curiosity Mars rover takes 3-D photos by using its cameras like left and right eyeballs, snapping photos from two slightly different perspectives. When NASA tints the two images, one red and one blue, and combines them, we can see 3-D views of Mars. In this activity you’ll make your own pair of 3-D glasses you can use to look at stellar scenes from Earth to Mars and beyond.
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Monster ‘Bots
Visit The Shop to create a creepy, crawly motorized monster just in time for Halloween. Using available materials, batteries and miniature motors, you can create a scary, wiggling robot. Best of all, what you create is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Spooky Straw Rockets
Visit The Shop to use a variety of materials to create your very own Halloween themed straw rocket. What you make is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Spooky Straw Rockets
Visit The Shop to use a variety of materials to create your very own Halloween themed straw rocket. What you make is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Free Flu Vaccine Clinic
Make your family’s annual flu vaccinations a fun event at The Discovery! Flu vaccines will be available at low or no-cost for children and adults who qualify. Flu vaccines will be administered by Washoe County Health District on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. If you have health insurance, Medicaid, or Nevada Checkup, please have your insurance card with you. All children who get a flu shot, and one adult per family, will be given free admission…
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Open Build in The Shop
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During Open Build, take your pick from a variety of materials and use real tools to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, what you create is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Felt Monsters
Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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9th Annual Halloween Trick or Treat
Head to The Discovery for a hauntingly good time at the 9th annual Halloween Trick or Treat. Visit the museum in costume and trick-or-treat from gallery to gallery. There’ll be spooky decorations and delicious treats for all of the friendly or scary ghosts, ghouls and goblins who dare to attend. Note: For the safety of all visitors, costumes with weapons of any kind are not allowed. Teal Pumpkin Project The Discovery’s annual Halloween Trick or Treat event takes part in…
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Felt Monsters
Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Felt Monsters
Put your crafting skills to the test when you visit The Shop to create a Halloween themed felt monster! Using a variety of materials and a simple sewing technique, you can create a cute and cuddly Halloween ghost, ghoul or goblin to keep. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Science Distilled: Fostering bilingual diversity in STEM
The number of Spanish-speaking patients in hospitals is increasing, in Northern Nevada and across the nation. The number of bilingual healthcare providers and researchers, however, remains troublingly low. What can we do to make the STEM-healthcare workforce better reflect the diversity of our communities? At this installment of Science Distilled, consider with our speakers why building a diverse STEM-healthcare workforce matters and how to put this inquiry into action. Faculty, students, and staff in the University of Nevada, Reno’s Community of Bilingual…
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Kinetic Fall Tree
The season of trembling leaves is upon us. Visit The Shop to combine a variety of materials to create a tree sculpture with leaves to move with the power of kinetic energy. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Kinetic Fall Tree
The season of trembling leaves is upon us. Visit The Shop to combine a variety of materials to create a tree sculpture with leaves to move with the power of kinetic energy. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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Lunar Landers
Traverse the Moon’s surface with a lunar lander you design and build in The Shop. Using a variety of materials and a motor and counterweight, create a motorized contraption that will move on its own as if conducting an automated lunar mission. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this spac
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Chemistry of the Cocktail
Join us for the 8th annual Chemistry of the Cocktail — The Discovery’s premier fundraising event. Come as a flapper, gangster, silent film star, or come as you are and explore 1920s-style libations, enjoy delectable fare from local culinary purveyors, and provide support for the museum’s mission in our community. Proceeds from this event support The Discovery’s efforts to offer enriching educational programs and host engaging exhibitions focused on science, technology, engineering, art and math. Classic Cocktails Sample expertly crafted…
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