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Daily and Weekly Activities

The Lederman Science Center is open to the public
Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
and every Saturday 9:00 AM–3:00 PM.

Students should be in or have completed the grades listed with each Science Adventure. Scholarships are available for some of our activities.

To register for science adventures, special events and workshops with online registration and payment, click on the pencil next to the event on the calendar.

September, 2019

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: Accelerators at Fermilab and Elsewhere by Peter Garbincius, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

TRC Give-Away, 9:30 AM-11:00 AM, Workshop

October, 2019

DZero & Tevatron Tour, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Special Event

Lego Engineering Juniors, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Science Adventure

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: The Tales of Two Discoveries - The Top Quark and the Higgs Boson by Pushpa Bhat, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

Code Cracking, Cryptograms, and Other Mysteries, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Science Adventure

STEM Family Night Planning Workshop, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Science Adventure

Magnetic Magic, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Science Adventure

Spiders: Spinners of Silk, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Science Adventure

November, 2019

Playing with Your Food, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Science Adventure

Lego Engineering, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Science Adventure

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: Hearing the Universe: Gravitational Waves From Black Holes and Neutron Stars by Maya Fishback, University of Chicago/LIGO, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

DZero & Tevatron Tour, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Special Event

Flight and Fashion, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Science Adventure

What Makes You So Special?, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Science Adventure

December, 2019

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: Detectors and Electronics - How We Manage to Find These Crazy Llittle Particles by Grzegorz Deptuch, Jim Hoff, Tom Zimmerman and Sandeep Miryala, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

CSI: Careful Scientific Investigation, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Science Adventure

January, 2020

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: Why We Believe in Dark Matter by Don Lincoln, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Special Event

June, 2020

15-19

Summer Secondary Physics Institute - Modern Physics, NGSS, and Fermilab, 8:30 AM-3:30 PM, Workshop

22-26

Summer Secondary Physics Institute - Engineering Applications, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Workshop

22-26

Summer Secondary Chemistry Institute, 8:30 AM-3:30 PM, Workshop

22-26

Summer Secondary Biology Institute, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM, Workshop

July, 2020

13-17

Beauty and Charm Teacher Workshop, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Workshop

20-21

Phriendly Physics Teacher Workshops Grades K-2, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM, Workshop

22-24

Phriendly Physics Teacher Workshops Grades 3-5, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM, Workshop