Austin, TX: Texas Book Festival

Giant mountains of ice! Create glacier goo that models glacial movement and explore how the greenhouse effect warms Earth’s atmosphere.

Window Greenhouse You have everything you need at home in order to make your own greenhouse! Look around your pantry, spice rack or garage ... do you see dried beans or seeds?

Help the Big-Bee project transcribe, measure, and document important bee data. It all helps to save the bees! One precious specimen at a time! Besides being beautiful and amazing creatures, bees are essential to global food production and pollination of both wild and cultivated plants. Unfortunately, bees are decreasing in both numbers and diversity. Our …

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a paper helicopter! Construct a simple and sturdy paper helicopter using the template provided. How many different modifications can you make to the rotor to improve your helicopter’s flight?