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  • Tuesday, September 14

    • 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    • The Science and Art of Wine making (map)
    • Shelton Vineyards, Dobson

    • 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
    • Hands-On Activity, Tour/Open House: General Audiences
    • 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
    • Nature Watchers Program: Fish (map)
    • Crowder District Park, Apex

    • Fish can be funny looking when you think about it. Get to know the fish that live in Crowder’s Pond – how they live and what they eat. Play a fishing game and take home a prize.

      Nature Watchers is for children ages 3 – 5. Preschool children with accompanying adult(s) discover the natural world through stories, hands on nature activities, games, crafts, and outdoor exploration. Meet at the Robin Shelter.

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    • Cost: $4.00/child per program
    • Hands-On Activity, Class/Workshop: Families, Other
    • 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    • Explore More Life Lab at Discovery Place (map)
    • Discovery Place, Charlotte

    • 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.
    • Hands-On Activity, Demonstration, Science Talk/Lecture, Exhibit: Families, General Audiences
    • 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
    • Storytime (map)
    • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

    • Spend quiet time listening to your favorite nature tales and meet live animals.

      From alligators to opossums, come face-to-face with a new live animal each week.

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    • This event is free to participants.
    • Science Talk/Lecture, Other: Families, College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
    • Zoomers (map)
    • Ashe County Public Library, West Jefferson

    • Our storytime focus will be things that zoom through the sky. Join us for a fun filled hour exploring flying things from rockets to kites. You can create different flying things to take home.

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    • This event is free to participants.
    • Hands-On Activity, Other: Families, Other
    • 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
    • A World Apart (map)
    • Discovery Place, Charlotte

    • 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.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with museum admission.
    • Science Talk/Lecture: Families, General Audiences, Other
    • 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
    • Meet the Animals (map)
    • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

    • 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.
    • Hands-On Activity, Science Talk/Lecture, Other: Families, College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
    • SciWorks Planetarium Shows (map)
    • SciWorks Science Center, Winston-Salem

    • 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.
    • Other: Families, General Audiences
    • 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
    • Meet the Animals (map)
    • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

    • 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.
    • Hands-On Activity, Science Talk/Lecture, Other: Families, College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
    • Live Animal Encounter (map)
    • North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Manteo

    • 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.
    • Demonstration, Science Talk/Lecture: Families, General Audiences
    • 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
    • Touch Tank Feeding Demonstration (map)
    • SciWorks Science Center, Winston-Salem

    • Join SciWorks’ animal care staff as they demostrate the unique feeding mechanisms of various marine animals including horshoecrabs, sea urchins and anemones.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with museum admission.
    • Demonstration: Families, General Audiences
    • 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
    • Meet-a-Scientist Brown Bag Lunch & Learn (map)
    • Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Chapel Hill

    • Predicting Severe Weather: Meet expert Jonathan Blaes from the National Weather Service office in Raleigh for a one-hour brown bag lunch & learn. Join us for an interactive current science presentation, followed by a discussion with Jonathan.

    • Event Web site
    • This event is free to participants.
    • Science Talk/Lecture: College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
    • Meet the Animals (map)
    • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

    • 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.
    • Hands-On Activity, Science Talk/Lecture, Other: Families, College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
    • What’s Glowing On? (map)
    • Discovery Place, Charlotte

    • 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.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with museum admission.
    • Class/Workshop, Demonstration, Science Talk/Lecture: Families, General Audiences, Other
    • 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
    • Science on a Sphere Program (map)
    • North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Manteo

    • 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.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with paid admission.
    • Demonstration, Science Talk/Lecture: Families, College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
    • NC Mountain State Fair (map)
    • WNC Agricultural Center, Fletcher

    • 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.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: $7 for adults/ $3 children 6-12/ children 5 and under free
    • Hands-On Activity, Arts/Performance, Demonstration, Exhibit: Families, General Audiences
    • 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
    • A World Apart (map)
    • Discovery Place, Charlotte

    • 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.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with museum admission.
    • Science Talk/Lecture: Families, General Audiences, Other
    • 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    • Sub Zero (map)
    • Discovery Place, Charlotte

    • 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”.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: Free with museum admission.
    • Class/Workshop, Demonstration, Science Talk/Lecture: Families, General Audiences, Other
    • 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
    • Nature Friends Program: Fish (map)
    • Crowder District Park, Apex

    • Fish can be funny looking when you think about it. Get to know the fish that live in Crowder’s Pond – how they live and what they eat. Play a fishing game and take home a prize.

      Nature Friends (Ages 5 – 9). Kids will discover the natural world through hikes, hands on nature activities, outdoor exploration, games, and crafts. Meet at the Robin Shelter.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: $4.00/child per program
    • Hands-On Activity, Class/Workshop: Families, Other
    • 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    • STEMulating the Mind (map)
    • Atkins Academic & Technology High School, Winston-Salem

    • The staff and students at Atkins Academic and Technology High School invite you to participate in an evening of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities. Participants can choose their interest and rotate through a series of activities and speakers to gain a better understanding of the science around them. The activities will be tailored for either elementary students or high school/adult students. Each activity is designed to take 15-20 minutes so participants can choose several activities to engage in during the evening.

    • Event Web site
    • This event is free to participants.
    • Hands-On Activity, Demonstration: General Audiences
    • 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    • Periodic Tables (map)
    • Broad Street Cafe, Durham

    • Alcohol and Drugs and the Underdeveloped Brain: Periodic Tables is a monthly gathering where curious adults can meet in a casual setting to discuss the latest science in plain English. At Periodic Tables, you will chat with your neighbors and local experts about interesting and relevant science happenings right here in the Triangle and beyond. No lengthy PowerPoint presentations, no drawn-out seminars, no confusing jargon. Simply smart and relevant science in a relaxed atmosphere. Eating and drinking is encouraged, and there is no such thing as a stupid question.

    • Event Web site
    • This event is free to participants.
    • Science Talk/Lecture: College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
    • 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
    • Audubon Lecture: Exploring the Tropics (map)
    • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

    • Join Kyle Kittelberger, an 11th-grader at Ravenscroft School, as he shares some of his more memorable wildlife experiences and photos from the tropical regions of the American continents.

    • Event Web site
    • This event is free to participants.
    • Science Talk/Lecture: General Audiences
    • 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    • Starry Nights: Fall Skies (map)
    • Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Chapel Hill

    • Explore the seasonal skies in Morehead’s star-filled planetarium dome. Learn to identify the planets, bright stars and constellations best seen at this time of year while enjoying stories from various cultures about star patterns in the heavens. Morehead educators will also share information about meteor showers and other current celestial events.

      For adults ages 16 and up. Program takes place in Morehead’s GlaxoSmithKline Fulldome Digital Theater.

      Registration required. On-line or by calling 919.962.1236.

    • Event Web site
    • Cost: $12 nonmembers/ $8 Morehead members and UNC students.
    • Class/Workshop, Science Talk/Lecture: College Students, Science Professionals, General Audiences
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