Event Calendar

Our youngest visitors can bring their imaginations as an SCI Programs Team member reads under the starry skies.

Discover how waves govern everything from the tiniest particles to the fabric of spacetime itself! This interactive program brings science to life with dancing flames, levitating superconductors, and a symphony of electricity.

Help guide a breathtaking journey through our solar system, exploring the unique features, mysteries, and wonders of its most important celestial bodies.

Have you ever wondered what Snippy the Snapping Turtle eats? Come check out a feeding demonstration of one of SCI’s most ravenous reptiles! The snapping turtle feeding may be too intense for some visitors.

Locate constellations and planets, and hear myths of the night sky in this live planetarium program. Program and location subject to change.

Meet and get the chance to touch some of SCI’s resident reptiles and amphibians.

Get chills and thrills from cryogenic demonstrations.

This show reveals dark matter's earliest clues, covering the astral choreography of galactic orbits and sensitive detectors hidden deep underground. Program and location subject to change.

Experience the out-of-this-world space observation! Join SCI staff and star gazing guides to take a look through high-powered telescopes at galaxies, clusters and nebula. Tonight we will be viewing the Perseid Meteor Shower. 

Telescopes and activities will be set up at Ashton Observatory (8717 W 122nd St N, Mingo, IA, 50168).

PLEASE NOTE: Solar & Star Parties are weather dependent and are subject to cancellation. Check the SCI website for updates on the event.