EXHIBIT HALL
Summer Science Smorgasbord
See hands-on science exhibits from our collection. You can explore light and optics and mix your own reflection with that of another person, using our new "Everyone is You and Me" display, or learn about air flow with Bernoulli blowers and an Air Cannon, or try your own designs on our Air Table. Take our light logic quiz and learn how to flex your power, or view digitized sound in the Sound-O-Rama...
EXPLORATION DOME
NEW Shows at the Exploration Dome!
Offering star shows as well as full-dome videos on a variety of science and technology topics.
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EXPLORATION DOME CAMPAIGN
Capella Market is a STAR! The benefit BBQ and bike raffle was a success. With the help of awesome customers, Capella Market raised $575 for the Science Factory Children's Museum & Exploration Dome. Capella Market and the Science Factory thank Country Natural Beef & Oroweat for donating food, and Collins Cycle Shop for a great deal on the mountain bike raffled. Congratulations to raffle winner Genie H!
We're a Blue Star Museum
Blue Star Museums is a partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more than 800 museums in all 50 states to offer free admission to military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 31, 2010, through Labor Day, September 6, 2010.
The free admission program is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card, or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, which includes active duty military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard), National Guard and Reserve members and up to five immediate family members.
 We have parties down to a science! Science Factory parties are a perfect way to celebrate with friends & family.
» Celebrate your birthday with us!
Activity: Color the Science Factory
 » Download this Science Factory drawing by Eugene artist David Funk for your kids to color
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NEW EXHIBITS COMING!
See new exhibits opening on
National Museum Day
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Science Factory will open two new exhibits and offer FREE admission on National Museum Day, sponsored by Museums of Springfield and Eugene (MUSE), Saturday, September 25, from 10 am - 4 pm. Simultaneously, the Science Factory will hold an Exploration Dome Open House and offer free admission to dome shows, made possible by partnering sponsors Eugene Active 20-30 Club & Foundation. Visitors coming to the Science Factory September 25 can enjoy two new traveling exhibits that explore space, titled Outreach to Space and Planet Panorama. Built by San Francisco's world famous Exploratorium, Outreach to Space is a bilingual hands-on traveling exhibit geared towards children from 5 to 13 years of age. Designed to elicit questions about space and space travel, it gives young visitors the opportunity to discover the answers through 12 interactive stations. Planet Panorama is a scale model solar system display made up of 13 image panels designed to illustrate the relative sizes of and distances between the Sun, planets and other bodies of our solar system.
Science Pubs
Topic: The Stuff of Life
When: Thursday, September 9
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Cozmic Pizza,
199 W 8th Ave
What are you made of? It’s easy to make a list of your “pieces” — cells, bones, muscles, and more — but what determines the physical properties of these materials, and how do these properties guide the forms and functions of living things? At this Science Pub we'll explore topics in biophysics, paying special attention to the soap-film-like membranes that surround your cells and to similarities between living “squishy” materials (like your flesh) and non-living materials like gels and foams.
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Local Science Notes
A Resource for Parents:
Information Age Education
Information Age Education (IAE) is a project whose goal is helping to improve the education of people of all ages throughout the world. The IAE project is directed by Dave Moursund, who founded the International Society for Technology in Education, a non-profit professional society with offices in Eugene and Washington DC. While a professor at the University of Oregon, he established and ran a master’s degree and doctorate program in the field of computers in education.
IAE provides a large number of free resources for parent, teachers, and others interested in the education of children. These resources include:
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