Past Events
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
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
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 »
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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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.
Find out more »
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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2016 Scramble for Science
Join us for The Discovery’s inaugural “Scramble for Science” golf tournament on Friday, June 10, 2016 at one of Reno’s best known and most player-friendly venues, LakeRidge Golf Course. This fun, friendly tournament includes a raffle, hole-in-one challenge, and prizes for the top three teams. Each player can enjoy a BBQ dinner from LakeRidge’s 19th Hole Restaurant & Bar after the tournament. $150 per player, $550 per foursome Registration includes swag bag, 2 drinks, and a BBQ dinner following the tournament.…
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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.
Find out more »
Explore Freshwater Ecology
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.
Find out more »
Cardboard Creatures
Visit The Shop to engineer your very own cardboard creature. Sketch your design and then grab the materials you need to construction your creature! Best of all, what you build 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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Meet the Scientist: Denis Isbister
Want to know what it’s like to catch a trophy rainbow trout in Argentina, or a giant peacock bass in Colombia? How about taking a wild river boat ride in the middle of the night in a Colombian jungle to get to some of the most insane fishing you have ever seen? Find out answers to these questions, and more, from Denis Isbister, host of “Wild Fish, Wild Places” on the World Fishing Network. Denis will be showing clips from his…
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Cardboard Creations
Visit The Shop to engineer your very own cardboard creation. Sketch your design and then grab the materials you need to construct your idea! Best of all, what you build is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can cause injury if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.
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