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Just in time for this summer's Total Solar Eclipse, the Science Zone invites you to expand your knowledge of outer space by exploring the history of flight, navigation and NASA's vision for the future of earth and space exploration. Mission Aerospace will inspire the next generation of explorers to value where we are today and to look towards aviation of tomorrow. Turn that inspiration into flight by building your own rockets and paper airplanes and testing them for distance and air-dexterity in the target-filled launch arenas. Can your rocket reach Saturn? Can you fly your plane around the world? Can you tweak your plane to do tricks? This is a perfect exhibit to learn more about aviation and aeronautics that have taken astronauts to the moon and back.
On display May 18th through the end of August 2017.
The aTlas exhibit, Thunder Feathers: Greater Sage-grouse Strut the Plains, will be on display at the Science Zone starting in the fall of 2017. Thunder Feathers melds art and science to highlight Greater Sage-grouse behavior and sagebrush habitat.
A true STEAM exhibit, Thunder Feathers brings together cutting-edge research from the University of California-Davis, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, The Nature Conservancy, Cornell University, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Audubon Rockies, and others to participants through artistic interpretation. The exhibit consists of 3-D, fiber, oil painting, photography, film, and sound installations by Wyoming artists to explore the sage-grouse life cycle, sagebrush ecosystem, and conservation efforts.
A true STEAM exhibit, Thunder Feathers brings together cutting-edge research from the University of California-Davis, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, The Nature Conservancy, Cornell University, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Audubon Rockies, and others to participants through artistic interpretation. The exhibit consists of 3-D, fiber, oil painting, photography, film, and sound installations by Wyoming artists to explore the sage-grouse life cycle, sagebrush ecosystem, and conservation efforts.
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Check out our newest addition to our Engineering Zone, Pentominoes!
This fun exhibit will challenge your problem solving skills and get you thinking about all the different ways you can organize these blocks! |
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Staff Experiments |
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Legend has it that a Mountain Dew will dissolve a rodent in 30 days or less. So, being the good scientists we are... we're testing that theory.
This experiment has ended, but stay tuned for the video of results! |
Permanent Collections
Reflection Zone
A mirror can be used in so many ways! We're used to regular mirrors: Flat mirrors, mounted on a vertical surface. But when they're tilted—or better yet, curved—mirrors can show us things we might not expect. Can a mirror take away gravity?
Engineering Zone
Come construct and create with a variety of building materials in our Engineering Zone. Kids start developing their engineering skills the first time they stack two blocks. Young children love to develop their design skills with building toys, and we have plenty!
Check out some of the new pieces of our Engineering Zone! 
The RiverRail Tot Spot!
Fun for ages birth to pre-K, our toddler
area is designed for little ones to explore safely while siblings explore in The Science Zone. We welcome parents to bring a coffee and socialize! 
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Zoo Zone
For years scientists around the world have used animals to help us understand our earth. Bring your kids down to the Zoo Zone so that they too may begin to learn all about our amazing planet! 
Click Below to Adopt an Animal!The Bubble Zone
Who doesn't like to play with bubbles? At The Science Zone we love bubbles so much we've dedicated a whole area to them. We have a huge bubble table that makes some of the biggest bubbles you'll ever see! This is one of our favorite areas because it just allows kids to be kids. But parents, don't worry you can join in the fun too!
Nano Zone!
The Nano Zone is focused on learning about everything NANO (really small) sized science!
Come build a carbon nano tube!
Have you ever seen ferrofluid?
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