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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.

July, 2019

15-19

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

Making Waves with Medical Imaging, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Science Adventure

Get to Know Fermilab Guided Tour: Summer Sunday Get To Know, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Special Event

22-23

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

24-26

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

24-26

QuarkNet Workshop - Teaching with Data, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Workshop

29-2

Energy and Ecosystems Teacher Workshop, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM (4:30 PM Grad Credit), Workshop

August, 2019

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: Fermions and Friends - Putting antiprotons, pions, muons, neutrons and other particles to work to cure cancer - by Jim Welsh/Loyola Medical Center/Hines VA Hospital, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

5-8

Wondering Why?, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Science Adventure , Full

DZero & Tevatron Tour: DZero and Tevatron Tour, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Special Event

Problem Solving through Coding - Summer Edition, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Science Adventure

Get to Know Fermilab Guided Tour: Summer Sunday Get To Know, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Special Event

September, 2019

DZero & Tevatron Tour, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Special Event

Ask-a-Scientist Guided Tour of Fermilab: How We Detect Light - Noah Kurinsky, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Special Event

October, 2019

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

November, 2019

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

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

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