Events Calendar
Homeschool Science Experience Enrichment Days: Dinosaur Discoveries
@ Dec 10 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 | Ages 8 – 10 | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m | Non-Member: $24, Member: $18 | Preregistration required
You are now a paleontologist on the hunt for fossils. Learn how experts in the field create casts in order to carefully show what they found during a dig. Understand how fossils were created through a layering process. Discover what coprolite is and how scientists use it to determine what dinosaurs ate.
Minecraft Mania
@ Dec 14 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019 | Ages 7 – 12 | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m | Non-Member: $20, Member: $15 | Preregistration required
You’ve dug dirt, punched a tree, slayed a zombie or twenty . . . now it’s time to put those skills to the test in MOSI’s Minecraft Mania! Play on custom-designed individual and multiplayer worlds and scenarios found only at MOSI. Each week will feature a new adventure where you will learn useful tips and tricks that will guide you on becoming a Minecraft Designer, Adventurer, and even Master.
BEARS - Roving Robots Cub Scout Workshop
@ Dec 15 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m | $12 per scout, $4 per adult | Preregistration required
Adventure Addressed: Robotics
Discover how robots work and help humans every day. Build your own robot and test it out!
Last Day to Register: Thursday, December 5
Chemistry Merit Badge Workshop
@ Jan 12 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020 | 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m | $21 per scout, $4 per adult | Preregistration required
Explore the states of matter, learn about physical and chemical changes, and conduct fun, fizzing, foaming, and even explosive experiments in the lab!
Prerequisites: 5, 6a and 6b, 7
Last Day to Register: Thursday, January 2
Homeschool Technology and Engineering Program: 3...2...1...Liftoff!
@ Jan 14 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | Ages 8 – 12 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | Non-Member: $24, Member: $18 | Preregistration required
What’s more exciting than watching a live rocket launch? watching YOUR rocket launch high into the air! See the principles of rocket dynamics in action as we build and launch our own models.
Recover your rocket after a successful flight to take home proof of your work!
Homeschool Science Experience Enrichment Days: A Measure of Motion
@ Jan 14 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | Ages 8 – 10 | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m | Non-Member: $24, Member: $18 | Preregistration required
Physics is the study of matter in motion and this class has a lot of stuff moving! Learn about pulleys and other simple machines as you build the climbing man creature. Use balloons to power made from scratch cars and build a simple pendulum learn about how objects move. Understand kinetic and potential energy through what is referred to as Kinetic Art.
Homeschool Science Experience Enrichment Days: What Goes Up...
@ Jan 14 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | Ages 5 – 7 | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m | Non-Member: $24, Member: $18 | Preregistration required
How do simple machines work? Explore the energy and work behind simple machines. Compete in a challenge using pulleys, levers, inclined planes and more. Can you turn potential energy into kinetic?
ALL CUB SCOUTS - Mission to Mars Camp-In
@ Jan 18 2020 - Jan 19 2020
Saturday, January 18, 2020 7:00 p.m. – Sunday, January 19, 2020 9:00 a.m | $40 per scout, $25 per adult | Preregistration required
Adventure Addressed: Tigers – Sky is the Limit, Webelos – Adventures in Science, Webelos – Engineer
Become an expert in exploration! Choose your mission, design spacecraft, and follow in the footsteps of astronauts, engineers, and scientists. This overnight experience includes a show in the Saunders Planetarium, a hands-on Design Lab, a Junior Science Cafe, MOSI exhibit exploration, light snack, sleeping at MOSI, light breakfast, and general admission to MOSI after the program. *This program includes one MOSI 2020 Fun Patch per scout.
Download our Handy Guide for a MOSI Camp-In here!
Last Day to Register: Thursday, January 2
TIGERS - Space-capades Cub Scout Workshop
@ Feb 01 2020
Saturday, February 1, 2020 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | $12 per scout, $4 per adult | Preregistration required
Adventure Addressed: Sky is the Limit
Junior astronomers will take a journey through space by investigating the Moon, Sun, planets and constellations! This workshop includes a show in the Saunders Planetarium.
Last Day to Register: Thursday, January 23
Homeschool Technology and Engineering Program: Prototyping 101
@ Feb 11 2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 | Ages 8 – 12 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | Non-Member: $24, Member: $18 | Preregistration required
