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Fantastic Thermoplastic
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Saturday, repeating until April 16, 2016
Visit The Shop to create your own piece of thermoplastic art and then watch as it shrinks to size before your very eyes. Create things like earrings, bookmarks, keychains, and more, and learn how this amazing material softens when heated, but hardens when it cools.
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Fantastic Thermoplastic
Visit The Shop to create your own piece of thermoplastic art and then watch as it shrinks to size before your very eyes. Create things like earrings, bookmarks, keychains, and more, and learn how this amazing material softens when heated, but hardens when it cools.
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Albino Dinos
Local hertepology expert Dave Boland is making a return visit to The Discovery! This time he’s bringing some of his less colorful friends. Not to worry though, these reptiles exemplify the albino morph, a transformation that turns them into dazzling, nearly colorless examples of their species. Presented with support from the Meyer family and
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DIY Birdhouses
An event every week that begins at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating until April 27, 2016
Put your DIY, or do-it-yourself, skills to the test in The Shop when you use real tools and materials to design, cut, drill, screw and nail your very own home for birds. 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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DIY Birdhouses
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Saturday, repeating until April 30, 2016
Put your DIY, or do-it-yourself, skills to the test in The Shop when you use real tools and materials to design, cut, drill, screw and nail your very own home for birds. 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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Social Science: Robots & Drones
Embrace the future at Social Science. Explore, interact, and investigate the robotic and drone technologies of the future including flight simulators, a drone dissection zone, Sumo Bots, humanoid robots Baxter and NAO, learn how virtual reality can help control wild fires, and much more. Programming presented in partnership with the Desert Research Institute (DRI), Nevada Advanced Autonomous Systems Innovation Center (NAASIC), and the Reno Robot Club. About Social Science Social Science is adults-only, brain building fun featuring intriguing science demos, clever art…
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DIY Birdhouses
Put your DIY, or do-it-yourself, skills to the test in The Shop when you use real tools and materials to design, cut, drill, screw and nail your very own home for birds. 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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Open Build
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During “open build” take your pick of real tools and materials to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, whatever you create is yours to take home! 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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Create Your Own Piggy Bank
Visit Spark!Lab Smithsonian to use a variety of provided materials to invent a new way to save your money. With summer on its way, you can use what you create to store your allowance or lemonade stand earnings!
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Create Your Own Piggy Bank
Visit Spark!Lab Smithsonian to use a variety of provided materials to invent a new way to save your money. With summer on its way, you can use what you create to store your allowance or lemonade stand earnings!
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Mother’s Day Open Build
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During “open build” take your pick of real tools and materials to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, whatever you create is yours to take home! 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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Mother’s Day Open Build
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During “open build” take your pick of real tools and materials to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, whatever you create is yours to take home! 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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Vegetable Circus: Circus Skills
Take your first circus steps and grow your circus superpowers with Vegetable Circus! Have fun learning circus skills like spinning plates and juggling. Vegetable Circus promotes the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle and believes healthy eating habits can supercharge each individual to learn, grow and play to their full potential. Join the circus today!
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Leapin’ Lizards
Can you tell the difference between a lizard and a snake? Join herpetology expert Dave Boland for a hands-on look at a variety of animals from the reptile world and learn what makes each of them specially equipped for their environment. Presented with support from the Meyer family and
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Special Monday Hours
The Discovery will be open from 10:00am to 5:00pm on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2016.
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Special Monday Hours
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Monday, repeating until September 5, 2016
Now there’s even more time to discover. The museum is open 10:00am – 5:00pm on Mondays from Memorial Day, May 30 through Labor Day, September 5, 2016.
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Open Build
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During “open build” take your pick of real tools and materials to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, whatever you create is yours to take home! 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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Explore Freshwater Ecology
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Wednesday, repeating until June 29, 2016
During the entire month of June, The Discovery’s team of educators will be introducing museum visitors to the skills and pursuits of freshwater biologists and ecologists, like Dr. Zeb Hogan. Visitors will learn the importance of this type of scientific work through a variety of hands-on demonstrations, and activities presented on the museum’s mobile fish lab.
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Squishy Circuits
Explore electricity, conductivity and creativity when you use LEDs and conductive dough to invent wacky light-up scuptures in Spark!Lab Smithsonian.
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Science Distilled: The winter that was?
Science Distilled, a new lecture series created by DRI and The Discovery, makes cutting-edge science approachable through presentations on current and curious topics held at hip locations in a social atmosphere. The winter that was? Climate and water in Northern Nevada. There’s no question, water is a precious resource that can be scarce in the desert region we call home. With headlines on drought and El Niño creating big expectations for last winter, find out the real story from these…
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Open Build
In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During “open build” take your pick of real tools and materials to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, whatever you create is yours to take home! 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.
Find out more »![](https://nvdm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SquishyCircuits-580x400.jpg)
Squishy Circuits
Explore electricity, conductivity and creativity when you use LEDs and conductive dough to invent wacky light-up scuptures in Spark!Lab Smithsonian.
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DIY Puppets
Use your creativity, your ingenuity, and a variety of materials to create your own finger, hand or string puppet in The Shop. 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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Invent a Fish Launcher
Helping fish navigate physical obstructions such as dams can be tricky science. Visit Spark!Lab Smithsonian to invent your version of a launcher that can help fish find their way upstream. Not to worry, no fish will be harmed in the making of these contraptions.
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