The history of a place or culture can illuminate many things – from simple facts about the past, to current laws, maps, and peoples, to how we view ourselves and our place within a larger community...
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Topics: 20 Great Adventures
For our next Great Adventure, I invite you to break out a pencil and a pad of paper. If you want to get real wild, I welcome you to add some colored pencils or crayons to the mix. Have you guessed it..
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Topics: 20 Great Adventures, Curious Nature
Have you ever wondered how something works or how something was made? In the monthly Science Behind series, we partner with a guest presenter to explore a large variety of interesting topics. The..
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Topics: The Science Behind Series
Top 10 Reasons to Go To Summer Camp in Vail Walking Mountains Science Center is thrilled to once again offer their summer camps for students entering grades K-8. Summer science camps allow children..
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Topics: Vail Summer Camps
Spending time outside as a family is an incredible way to learn more about the natural world. We are lucky to live in a Valley surrounded by countless wild places. At times it often feels like we..
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Topics: 20 Great Adventures
In 1998, a small group of educators banded together with a common purpose: to provide supplemental, hands-on, outdoor science education to the students of Eagle County’s public and private schools...
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Topics: Our History, Press Release
Have you ever wondered how something works or how something was made? In the monthly Science Behind series, we partner with a guest presenter to explore a large variety of interesting topics. The..
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Topics: The Science Behind Series
For 20 years, Walking Mountains Science Center has enjoyed dedicated and crucial community support; the majority of their programs are offered for free or at low cost due to the generosity of private..
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Topics: Volunteers, Press Release, Awards
All over the country parents are struggling with the shared experience of trying to get their kids to eat healthy. It is not an uncommon sight to see youngsters turn up their noses at plates of leafy..
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Topics: School Programs, Sowing Seeds
Want a science adventure that sticks? Let your child be the scientist. I had such an experience in fifth grade, when I demonstrated to my class the volcanoes we’d built in science class at my..
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Topics: 20 Great Adventures
If you have ever wanted to uncover the hidden mysteries of nature, then adopting a sit spot may be the perfect adventure for you. As humans we often spend time in nature moving. Be it walking,..
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Topics: 20 Great Adventures
