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Friday, September 17
- 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.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. – 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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: $5.00 per person
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- 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
- Counter Culture Coffee Cupping (map)
- Counter Culture Coffee, Durham
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A Counter Culture Coffee “cupping” is a hands-on, educational coffee tasting led by one of Counter Culture’s staff experts, followed by a tour of the award-winning company’s roastery and headquarters.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
- Counter Culture Coffee Cupping (map)
- Counter Culture Coffee, Charlotte
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A Counter Culture Coffee “cupping” is a hands-on, educational coffee tasting led by one of Counter Culture’s staff experts. Participants will taste a variety of coffees and discuss not only their characteristics in the cup, but what factors of agriculture, processing, and roasting contribute to those characteristics.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Nature Ranger Cart (map)
- Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham
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A traveling cart in the Gardens each Friday of Sept. and Oct. Join us to have a creative and scientific adventure for all visitors.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 10:00 a.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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
- Storytime (map)
- NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
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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.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- NC Estuarium River Roving Tours (map)
- NC Estuarium, Washington
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River Roving Educational River Tours- Learn about the history and habitats of the Washington waterfront. These boat tours cruise the Pamlico River Wednesday through Friday at 10:30 and 12:45, and Saturdays at 10:30. No admission fee or other cost is involved for the tour, but advance reservations are required. Riders should check in 15 minutes in advance. Children must be at least 6 years old to ride; a responsible adult must accompany children under 16. Call 252-948-0000 for reservations. Please call ahead for program information as space may be limited. The Estuarium is a Partnership for the Sounds facility, an organization promoting eco-tourism and sustainable economic development in the Albemarle-Pamlico region.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.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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- 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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 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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- 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.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Live Animal Encounters (map)
- SciWorks Science Center, Winston-Salem
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Meet some of SciWorks’ program animals at this informal presentation. We will introduce a new animal each day. There will be time for questions at the end.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
- NC Estuarium River Roving Tours (map)
- NC Estuarium, Washington
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River Roving Educational River Tours- Learn about the history and habitats of the Washington waterfront. These boat tours cruise the Pamlico River Wednesday through Friday at 10:30 and 12:45, and Saturdays at 10:30. No admission fee or other cost is involved for the tour, but advance reservations are required. Riders should check in 15 minutes in advance. Children must be at least 6 years old to ride; a responsible adult must accompany children under 16. Call 252-948-0000 for reservations. Please call ahead for program information as space may be limited. The Estuarium is a Partnership for the Sounds facility, an organization promoting eco-tourism and sustainable economic development in the Albemarle-Pamlico region.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 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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- 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Animal Encounters (map)
- North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro
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Join the North Carolina Zoo for close-up encounters with animals! Located in the kidZone section of the park.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with zoo admission.
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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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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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.
- Event Web site
- 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.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Spectacular Science (map)
- Ashe County Public Library, West Jefferson
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See the collapsible bottles, flipping pennies, slime, dancing raisins, and other feats that are science. We will let you create your own flubber! (Think home-made silly-putty!)
- Event Web site
- 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”.
- Event Web site
- Cost: Free with museum admission.
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- 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
- Lorna’s Sun Bottle (map)
- Appalachian State University, Boone
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Story reading and hands on activity for K-3 children and parents.
Children will listen for clues during the reading of an original story called, “Lorna’s Sun Bottle.” After hearing the story, the children will “become” the main character and proceed to the laboratory area where they must manipulate chemicals, observe the color changes, and add substances to the “Sun Bottle” in the correct order based on the story clues in order to release the trapped Sun Spirit in the Kingdom of Alchemy.
Located in 307 CAP Science Building.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
- Family Campfire (map)
- McDowell Nature Center, Charlotte
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Enjoy stories, eat s’mores, and sing songs around a campfire with family and friends. Groups are welcome to attend and guests are encourage to register for the night hike following the campfire.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
- Moonlight Paddle (map)
- McDowell Nature Center, Charlotte
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Kayak the coves of Lake Wylie while we try and catch a glimpse of the many creatures that come out at night. It’s feeding time for most, so we’re bound to see some very cool animals. Call 704-588-5224 to reserve your spot or for more info. Ages 12 and older.
- Event Web site
- Cost: $11 per boat
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- 8:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
- Nature at Night Hike (map)
- McDowell Nature Center, Charlotte
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Bring your family and experience McDowell Nature Preserve at night. Play games, listen to stories and learn how wildlife hear, see and feel to get around in the dark. Meet at the McDowell Campground Fire Pit.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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- 9:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
- Lunar Observing at ASU’s Rankin Observatory (map)
- Appalachian State University, Boone
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The 15 telescope Rankin GoTo Astronomy Laboratory Facility will provide the opportunity for participants to take their own guided tours of the Moon. In addition to viewing various surface features such as craters and mountain ranges, participants will have the opportunity to find many of the Apollo moon landing sites.
The event is free but does require registration. See the Event Web Site linked below for registration information and event details. Viewing will occur at Rankin Science South Building on the campus of Appalachian State University.
- Event Web site
- This event is free to participants.
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