- This event has passed.
Free Night: Science on the Square
October 17 @ 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FreeEnjoy FREE admission 4-8 pm as part of Science on the Square, an event for all ages that kicks off the Wisconsin Science Festival. Join us for hands-on STEM activities, including:
- UW Neuroscience Outreach, 5-7:45 pm: Join our friends from UW Neuroscience for brain-building activities and interact with REAL neurological specimens.
- MCM Wild Wonders: Squishy Circuits. 5-7 pm: Making circuits using play dough and LED lights.
- MCM Idea Lab, 5-7 pm: Create art and storytelling projects with the Idea Machine
- Sound Science: theremin and plastic bag percussion demo, 5-6 pm
- Sound Science: Makey-Makey synthesizer demos, 6-8 pm
- Sound Science: UW Speech & Hearing Clinic: How do we hear?
- Story Time with Alice in Dairyland, 5-5:15 pm and 6-6:15 pm
- Women in Chemistry: How does the sun power chemical reactions?
- Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom: From farm to form – can you grow bioplastics?
- UW IBio Go: Get to know our aquatic invertebrate friends
- UW-Madison Hite Lab: How does a tiny parasite travel from the lake to the sky?
- UW-Madison Freedman and Whitman Lab: what can you see in the soil?
- UW-Madison Picasso Lab: why are perennials and soil best friends?
- UW-Madison Child Development Labs: Research in Developmental Disabilities and Language Lab; Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab;