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Georgia Audubon will be hosting a FREE info session on how to participate in Climate Watch, a nation-wide community science effort for bird conservation.

Do you know where bats go during the daytime? Or where exactly a squirrel rests when it’s not scurrying through the canopy? As the next installment of Trees Atlanta’s Family Fun series, “Who Lives in a Tree?” is tailor-made to answer just these sorts of questions! This guided learning exploration of urban wildlife and its various habitats is offered to families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Viewers will embark on a virtual adventure through the Urban…

Every month, Story Collider holds a virtual story slam. This December, we’ll present our SUPER COLLIDER SLAM, in which all five victors from previous slams will return and compete for the ultimate prize: a Story Collider hoodie.

Many trees may lose their leaves when winter brings its chill, but they gain a new sense of wonder and beauty for those who give a closer look. Join Trees Atlanta in following a boy and his dog as they explore a snow-blanketed forest, using their senses to discover a new way of recognizing familiar forest friends. Beautifully illustrated, and written in such a way where we can almost hear the crunch of footsteps through snow, "Winter Trees" will give…

Entrepreneur Bukola Somide will join Black Girls CODE for a candid chat about her career as a Black woman in tech and the importance of nurturing a STEM identity at a young age. Bukola is a loving mom, Software Engineer, Project Management Professional, Author, Inventor, and Founder of Innovant Technologies LLC. Bukola is currently best known for inventing the first-ever interactive computer science educational doll. She’s also the author of Somi the Computer Scientist: Princess Can Code storybook and has…

With the increase of people moving into urban areas every day, anthropogenic (human-produced) sources of light are having a drastic effect on near and inhabiting wildlife. Birds have been particularly useful to study when looking at these urbanization effects, specifically urban noise and light pollution. Join Lauren Pharr, Master of Science student at North Carolina State University, for a discussion of her findings and how urbanization continues to affect local bird species.

Computer Science Week kicks off on December 7th! Black Girls CODE will host a 4-day long introductory computational thinking workshop designed to bridge the gap between those interested in computer science and beginner coders looking for a fun and facilitated coding experience using Python. Students will receive a guided introduction to programming concepts ranging from procedural decomposition, to functions, conditionals and basic data structures. Students will also get the chance to hear from a diverse panel of women in STEM,…

Learn how heat works in our environment!! We'll talk about the science behind heat, and do a fun experiment that you can try at home. (Parental supervision required!)

Watch and then recreate some simple experiments done with items found at home, in your own kitchen, and learn the chemistry behind them! You can find these videos on the Gwinnett County Public Library's Facebook page, Instagram library or tune into their YouTube channel every Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Kids, please make sure to have a grown-up's supervision before doing any experiments. Recommended for ages 8+

Learn to code and build fun circuits with Arduino online. Join us on a google meet to discover the basics of getting started with an Arduino. You will learn to blink the built-in LED and adjust the code to change speeds of the LED.

Students will build an erosion table using aluminum basting trays and will use them to experiment with different soil types and landscape elements that can be effected by water erosion. The students will create various landscape settings and see how different volumes and rates of water will erode the landscapes. The students will be able to apply their erosion table studies to actual construction site situations.

Most of Bradley Observatory’s open houses focus on a topic in physics or astronomy with lectures given by Agnes Scott faculty, students, alumni or local scientists. This event will feature Agnes Scott students Azia Robinson & Mihika Rao as they present on The National Astronomy Consortium (NAC).

Our monthly Grow and Learns are continuing on the second Saturday of each month. Join us at 9:00 AM via Zoom or in-person! This month's Grow and Learn with Celeste Lomax is all about how to lower your stress levels through these trying times and the holiday season. Celeste, a medicinal herb expert and steward of the Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill, will guide you on a journey towards wellness and peace. She'll uncover the medicinal herbs that can…

Learn how astronauts are growing food in space and how this technology is being used to grow food on Earth.

Join us as we (virtually) travel to Villarrica, Chile, in the lake district of Patagonia, to view a total solar eclipse visible overhead from parts of South America. We will be showing the total solar eclipse Chile Live. During this program we will explain the science on eclipses and how to safely view them.

Explore the biology in your backyard! In Backyard Biology, kids can learn about all living things found in their own backyard or their neighborhood! Find this program on our Facebook page or watch it on Instagram. Today, we will be discussing Holiday Plants! What can you find in your backyard? Kids are encouraged to post pictures of what they find to [email protected]

From September to December, a different Wizarding Mastermind video will be posted on Youtube on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Each video will feature an activity that students can make while exploring fun concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and of course, Art. Students will spend some time learning about a topic related to a STEAM topic and then they can make a project that helps physically reinforce the information they have learned. The activities are geared to kids…

Watch and then recreate some simple experiments done with items found at home, in your own kitchen, and learn the chemistry behind them! You can find these videos on the Gwinnett County Public Library's Facebook page, Instagram library or tune into their YouTube channel every Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Kids, please make sure to have a grown-up's supervision before doing any experiments. Recommended for ages 8+

Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Thursday, December 17 at 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) to hear Robert Nemiroff give us a tour of the highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2020. Along with Jerry Bonnell, Robert Nemiroff has written, coordinated, and edited NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) since 1995.  The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.  

Do you know where bats go during the daytime? Or where exactly a squirrel rests when it’s not scurrying through the canopy? As the next installment of Trees Atlanta’s Family Fun series, “Who Lives in a Tree?” is tailor-made to answer just these sorts of questions! This guided learning exploration of urban wildlife and its various habitats is offered to families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Viewers will embark on a virtual adventure through the Urban…

Join us on December 18th at 9:30 A.M. EST for Georgia Audubon Bird Stories! We will be reading Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen and learning about our favorite nocturnal friends! Don't forget to bring your imagination!

Archaeologists believe that an ancient civilization began building Stonehenge over 3000 years ago, and that it was meant to be an astronomical monument or calendar circle. The stones are aligned so that on the Winter Solstice the sun sets in the midst of three great stones known as the Trilithon. But Stonehenge is not the only monument created by an ancient civilization to track time! There’s a much older calendar circle at Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert in Egypt!…

What if you could craft a city and then use coding and conductivity to tell the stories of the people who live there? That’s what we’ll be doing in this one-day camp! We’ll start by crafting cities out of cardboard, or drawing cities to make an interactive poster. You can create a flat city on paper, a diorama of a city with a shoebox, or build a city out of cardboard. Then, we’ll write the stories of the people who…

Carnivals are fun events that bring communities together. In this camp, you will create a carnival game that lights up and makes noise. You’ll use a Makey Makey (supplied in a kit from MODA) and household materials to imagine, design, build, code and add circuitry to your game. We’ll start by brainstorming games, designing them, and building them out of household materials. Then, we’ll add electricity using Makey Makey circuits and code the games to respond when they’re played. After…

From September to December, a different Wizarding Mastermind video will be posted on Youtube on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Each video will feature an activity that students can make while exploring fun concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and of course, Art. Students will spend some time learning about a topic related to a STEAM topic and then they can make a project that helps physically reinforce the information they have learned. The activities are geared to kids…

Watch and then recreate some simple experiments done with items found at home, in your own kitchen, and learn the chemistry behind them! You can find these videos on the Gwinnett County Public Library's Facebook page, Instagram library or tune into their YouTube channel every Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Kids, please make sure to have a grown-up's supervision before doing any experiments. Recommended for ages 8+

Do you know where bats go during the daytime? Or where exactly a squirrel rests when it’s not scurrying through the canopy? As the next installment of Trees Atlanta’s Family Fun series, “Who Lives in a Tree?” is tailor-made to answer just these sorts of questions! This guided learning exploration of urban wildlife and its various habitats is offered to families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Viewers will embark on a virtual adventure through the Urban…

Do you know where bats go during the daytime? Or where exactly a squirrel rests when it’s not scurrying through the canopy? As the next installment of Trees Atlanta’s Family Fun series, “Who Lives in a Tree?” is tailor-made to answer just these sorts of questions! This guided learning exploration of urban wildlife and its various habitats is offered to families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Viewers will embark on a virtual adventure through the Urban…