science

Thursday evenings this summer the Saint Louis Science Center is staying open until 8 p.m! Families can visit the new GROW exhibit and explore the journey of food, see a movie in the OMNIMAX Theater, and enjoy all the hands-on fun of the Science Center usually only accessible during the day.

Explore the new GROW Exhibit at the Saint Louis Science Center during its Grand Opening, where your kids can make treats for the chickens, ride on mini tractors, meet Dorothy and the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, enjoy live music, giveaways and lots more.

Your little one will love exploring space during Space Preschool sessions at the Saint Louis Science Center. They will build a paper rocket, create their own constellation tale, and make a moonscape as they learn about space flight, stars and our moon.

Explore and celebrate aerospace technology with the highly interactive special exhibitionm Above and Beyond. now in its final days at the Saint Louis Science Center.

You won't want to miss this unique opportunity for your kids to take part in free classes at the Saint Louis Science Center's Makerspace.

In April's program, students will work in design teams to develop a new handheld musical instrument. Students will be challenged to design every aspect of their musical instrument, from its shape to the sounds it will make. The design teams will use MIT's Scratch programming language to program their musical instrument, from its shape to the sounds it will make. 

Kids will replicate a famous study using live cockroaches and play dough at this free workshop presented by The Butterfly House.

Kids ages 7-12 will replicate a famous study by zoologist Charles Henry Turner. Working in teams, kids will build a maze out of play dough and run live cockroaches through it. 

Part of the StArt@Your Library series at the St. Louis County Library. 

A-MAZE-ing Cockroaches will be held June 28 at 10 a.m. at the Daniel Boone Branch.