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Sunday, September 12
- 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.
- NC Mountain State Fair (map)
- WNC Agricultural Center, Fletcher
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WNC Agricultural Center, the third largest fair in North Carolina, celebrates the heritage of the Blue Ridge mountains, including agriculture, music, crafts, art, food, entertainment, display of livestock, competitions, and midway amusement rides. The NC Mountain State Fair runs September 10-19, 2010.
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- Cost: $7 for adults/ $3 children 6-12/ children 5 and under free
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- 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Fall Family Fun Day (map)
- Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham
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A day for the entire family to enjoy many activity stations, including building your own sound sandwich, a water bottle membranephone, exploring the way a flower takes up water, building a fairy house, and ooze. We will also have displays of carved pumpkins and other displays.
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Sunday Science (map)
- Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham
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Join us in the garden on Sundays, Sept 12 through Oct 30, for simple drop-in science or craft projects. Each will include something to make and take home. Location in the garden noted at the Front Desk of the Doris Duke Center.
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- SciWorks Planetarium Shows (map)
- SciWorks Science Center, Winston-Salem
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SciWorks planetarium offers several shows throughout the day for various age groups. We also present a live sky tour of the current night sky. Shows and times vary daily so please call ahead. First show at 11:00 a.m. Last show at 3:00 p.m. Several shows daily.
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Live Animal Encounter (map)
- North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Manteo
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Come face to face with alligators, snakes, sea turtles and many other live animals in Neptune’s Theater. This program is featured everyday at 11:30 a.m.
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Explore More Life Lab at Discovery Place (map)
- Discovery Place, Charlotte
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Immerse yourselves in our Explore More Life Lab, which is an interactive biology wet lab, featuring a touch tank with live animals from the ocean, fascinating focus stations, and a hands-on unit, featuring Insects during the month of September. Learn how insects eat, make noise, move, and how they differ from other bugs, such as spiders. Have fun creatively experimenting while you learn about these creepy crawlies.
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Heroes, Villains, and Special Effects (map)
- Museum of Life and Science, Durham
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Get ready to experience the ultimate science of entertainment event! Engage with top gaming companies including Redstorm Entertainment, Epic Games, Virtual Heroes, Playdom/Merscom, Atomic Games and Republic of Fun. Meet with film industry experts and take part in a staged combat demonstration. Emmy award winning makeup artist Dean Jones, Star Wars characters from Carolina 501st Garrison and other exhibitors will also be present.
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- Cost: pre-registered groups $4; Adults $12.50; Seniors and Military with ID $10.50; ages 3 - 12 $9.50; under 3 free
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- 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Tours of the Eco Industrial Park (map)
- Eco Industrial Park, Pittsboro
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Come to Pittsboro for a guided tour of Piedmont Biofuels Eco Industrial Park. Walk through a hydroponic greenhouse, see how clean burning renewable fuels are made from fats, oils and greases, wander through a biodiversity project, see a sustainable farming operation, and get your questions answered about solar thermal, photovoltaics, or about our plant-wall bio filter. Sample some bug spray made from renewable resources and learn about oilseed crushing and other bio-based products and technologies, including valuable soil amendments made by worms!
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- The Science and Art of Wine making (map)
- Shelton Vineyards, Dobson
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Tour a state-of-the-art working winery and learn about the art and science of wine making in North Carolina. Tour will end with a tasting of 5 wines (must be 21 years of age to sample) and participants will receive a souvenir glass. Tours start every thirty minutes from 10 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. daily.
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- Cost: $5.00 per person
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- 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Appalachian Science Expo (map)
- Appalachian State University, Boone
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Come and see some of the exciting science projects and facilities at Appalachian State University. Take tours of some of our state-of-the-art research labs. Get an up-close look at the sun. Drive an electron microscope, and look at things on the nanoscale. Hands-on activities for kids of all ages.
Event held at the campus of Appalachian State University: Plemmons Students Union, Grandfather Mountain Ballroom.
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Science Solvers – Bone Detectives (map)
- Marbles Kids Museum, Raleigh
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Join bone detective Dr. Ann Ross to explore the science of bones!
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Yates Mill Heritage Tours (map)
- Historic Yates Mill County Park, Raleigh
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*One-Hour Mill Heritage Tours* are available most weekend afternoons from Mar – Nov, on Saturdays and Sundays from 2:00-3:00pm, including September 11-12 and 25-26: Explore the mill’s business & social history. View a brief slide show then take a guided tour. Explore how power is transferred from the water wheel to the milling machinery. Pre-registration is not required, but is encouraged for groups of 10 or more people.
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- Cost: $5/adult, $3/seniors and children (but those age 6 & under are free)
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- 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Animals of the Park (map)
- Carolina Beach State Park, Carolina Beach
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Carolina Beach State Park is home to many different types of animals. Join the Park Ranger at the visitor center at 2:00 pm to learn about the habitats and adaptations of the animals that call the park home. For more information and to reserve your space, call 910-458-8206.
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- What’s Glowing On? (map)
- Discovery Place, Charlotte
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Grab a seat at “The Stage” and discover the science behind luminescent and incandescent light. By the time the show is over, you’ll be an expert on all that shines.
Put yourself in the spotlight as a contestant in the “Will it Glow?” game show, hosted by one of the Museum’s brightest scientists. Explore the materials that make things glow and take a closer look at items such as the artwork of Vincent Van ‘Glow’ to watch them shine. The show does ‘lights out’ with a BANG! — get a front row seat to the explosive qualities of light.
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Meet the Animals (map)
- NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
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From alligators to opossums, come face-to-face with a new live animal each week.
Upcoming Topics
Sept. 11: Insects & Arthropods
Sept.12: Turtles
Sept. 13: What do I eat?
Sept. 14-17: Nocturnal Animals
Sept. 18-19: Turtles
Sept. 20-24: Alligators
Sept. 25-26: Turtles - Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Science on a Sphere Program (map)
- North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Manteo
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See the Earth like never before with an educational program on our three dimensional sphere at Oceans Revealed. Every day at 2:30 p.m.
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- Cost: Free with paid admission.
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- 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- A World Apart (map)
- Discovery Place, Charlotte
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Learn about the tropical rainforest ecosystem and the species that call it home during “A World Apart”.
Get acquainted with a variety of species that call the rainforest habitat home and explore the unique features that help them thrive in this one-of-a-kind environment. Keep your eye out for the ball python, a constrictor that uses its 200 vertebra to twist and turn around the rainforest exhibit. You also could meet an iguana hailing from Central and South America that uses its third eye to sense the presence of predators – and friendly Museum visitors.
Step in to a world where the seasons change from hot to hotter, frogs roam freely and a 20-year old blue and gold macaw looks on as you experience the wonders of the tropical rainforest.
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Snake of the Month (map)
- Goose Creek State Park, Washington
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Whether you love them or hate them, snakes are in great number in Eastern North Carolina. Whichever your opinion, visit Goose Creek to learn more about a different snake species every month. From venomous to non venomous, aquatic to terrestrial, what will this month’s snake be? Meet at the Goose Creek Environmental Education and Visitor Center to find out!
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- This event is free to participants.
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- 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Sub Zero (map)
- Discovery Place, Charlotte
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Join our resident physicist at the “The Stage” to chill out and explore a world below freezing. With materials so cold they can only be touched with cryogenic gloves, you’re in for an icy treat!
The star of the show is liquid nitrogen – a unique element that’s so cold, when poured out of its tank in a room temperature setting; it turns to gas before even hitting the floor – giving you the chance to frolic in a nitrogen cloud. You’ll watch as it makes a surgical glove as delicate as glass, takes the bounce out of a bouncy ball and causes a penny to shatter with one strike of a hammer.
Learn more frosty facts about this important element at “Sub Zero”.
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- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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