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PASSPORT Sept. 20 – 29 The Best Ten Days of The Year

Astronaut Charlie Duke Science in the Park Open Houses Star Parties Field Trips SCI Talks

The Festival is a Flagstaff Unified School District sanctioned event.

MORE THAN 100 ACTIVITIES – ALL FREE!

Did you know every astronaut who walked on the Moon trained in Flagstaff? Flagstaff’s Lunar Landmarks Trail Map & Passport Flagstaff Visitor Center, One E. Route 66 FREE

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Lunar Lecture: Meet an F Astronaut in Training 7 - 8 p.m. CCC Lone Tree Campus NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Watkins and senior astronaut SEPT. 20-29, 2019 Donald will discuss Science in SciFest.orgthe Park the training involved 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. for space travel! Wheeler Park Check out the Lunar Rover replica robot created and demonstrated by local teen CocoNuts! Explore other worlds in 3D with planetary Friday, Sept. 20 • 7 p.m. geologists, get muddy with archaeologists, fix holes in W. L. Gore & Associates Keynote Presentation: hearts with engineers in the Gore tent and count down To the Moon and Beyond with to a rocket launch at 1 p.m. Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie Duke Today you’re a scientist! Free tickets are available online or in person at the NAU Science and NAU Central Ticket Office (nau.edu/cto; 928-523-5661) Engineering Day Noon - 3 p.m. NAU Science and Health Building Dueling robots, hissing cockroaches and the latest BONUS EVENT To the Moon and Beyond Campus Sky Viewing technological inventions will 7:30 - 10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 Ballet Preceding the Keynote surprise you! Free parking NAU Campus Observatory Ocean Plastic Presentation behind Cline Library. Maria Campbell, Azulita Project 7 p.m., NAU Ardrey Auditorium On a clear night, let the Trey Highton Performers from the NAU Barry Lutz telescope be your Tynkertopia Open House Save the Waves Film Festival Community Dance Academy will window into the universe! 5:30 p.m. 3 - 6 p.m. prepare you for an other-worldly 2152 N. Fourth Street Mountain Sports Flagstaff journey! Suites 106-109 Join a local marine biologist SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 Visit Flagstaff’s STEM/STEAM and Save The Waves Coalition W. L. Gore & Associates Community Center. Bring for a discussion about our Keynote Presentation: Sea of Tranquility Hike your curiosity, playfulness oceans, climate and plastic 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. To the Moon and Beyond and creativity! pollution. with Apollo 16 Astronaut Flagstaff Ranger Station Hike in a crater field, Flagstaff’s Charlie Duke John Wesley Powell’s River version of the Moon’s Sea of 7 p.m., NAU Trip and the 1869 Eclipse Tranquility, where Apollo 11 Ardrey Auditorium Richard Quarteroli, Historian FRIDAY, SEPT. 20 General Charlie Duke astronauts trained. Prepare for 7 p.m. trained in Flagstaff a 4-5 mile walk over uneven Riordan Mansion State Joy Cone Tours before becoming the terrain, dress appropriately, Historic Park Register for a refreshing tour 10th man to walk on bring water and snacks. We’ll Find out why the solar eclipse showcasing high-altitude the Moon! Hear about watch a short film, then drive and other astronomical ice cream cone technology! his lunar experience to the site. Reservations events were important to Participants must be older and the future of space travel required, 928-527-8259 or John Wesley Powell and his than 5, at least one adult from this pioneering rocket [email protected] crew on their first Colorado for every two children. man! Get free tickets at NAU River expedition. Reservations required, Central Ticket Office, or [email protected] view live: YouTube.com/c/ Visit scifest.org Campus Sky Viewing flagstafffestivalofscience for information 7:30 - 10 p.m. For program updates about the NAU Campus Observatory and changes, visit us Free parking behind Cline Library in lot P13; $2/hr. Lunar Legacy Lecture Series! On a clear night, explore the on Facebook and parking in the garage nearest Ardrey Auditorium universe! scifest.org SUNDAY, SEPT. 22 MONDAY, SEPT. 23

Tagging Monarch Butterflies Science: Overtime Otaku Plotting the Plateau 8:30 - 11 a.m. The Next 100 Years 3 - 4:30 p.m. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Bubbling Ponds 3 - 4:30 p.m. East Flagstaff Flagstaff Downtown Library Fish Hatchery USGS Building 3 Community Library Join this book club that Become a field biologist and Conference Room Explore science in Japanese features the Colorado Plateau tag colorful migrating Monarch Join in the conversation as comic books. Ages 10 and up. and NAU Career. Pick up a butterflies as they refuel on scientists look back, discuss copy of “Dare to Lead” by sunflower nectar! Find out what we know today and Science in Stacks Brene Brown at the Downtown more at https://swmonarchs. predict what we may see in 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Library Information Desk. org/upcoming-events.php and the next 100 years! Flagstaff Downtown Library make your reservation at info@ Join in as librarians share their Bacterial Genomes swmonarchs.org Swear Not By the Moon: favorite science books and and Judo for Health Myths and the Moon in experiments. Ages 8 - 12. Talima Pearson, Ph.D., NAU Hart Prairie Preserve Shakespeare’s Plays 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. 5:30 - 7 p.m. Small Satellites NAU Applied Research & Nature Walk 10 - 11: 30 a.m. Museum of Northern Looking for Life Development Bldg. 56, Meet at the Fort Valley Plaza Branigar Hall Evgenya Shkolnik, ASU Large Pod Conference Room Shopping Center Enjoy a live performance and 4 - 5 p.m. Technological advances have 1000 N. Humphreys Street lecture reflecting on the role Observatory helped researchers understand (SW corner near the guardrail) the Moon played in science Scientists may be on the the genetic content of Learn about birds, wildflowers, and psychology from the verge of something big with bacteria. Find out how this forest ecology and The Nature Renaissance to modern day. something small: a space helps us fight pathogens that Conservancy’s efforts to satellite called SPARCS (Star- are evading immune systems, restore the alpine meadow on First Man in the Northland Planet Activity Research vaccines and treatment. Find this 90-minute walk! Kevin Schindler, Lowell CubeSat) that is looking for full event details and parking No dogs please. 7 - 8 p.m. Earth-like planets. instructions at scifest.org. Riordan Mansion Elden Public Day State Historic Park Ants of the Colorado What is Altitude Training? 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. The first man to walk on Plateau 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. West side of Hwy 89 at the Moon, walked here first! 4 - 5 p.m. Hypo2 Conference Room Townsend-Winona Road Retrace Neil Armstrong’s Museum of Northern Arizona (NACET building) Explore excavations, analzye steps before he made one Colton Research Center Thousands of elite athletes artifacts, play primitive hunting giant leap for mankind. Center for Biocultural Diversity come to Flagstaff to train at games and learn about the Schaefer Building #35 high altitude. Learn about lives of prehistoric people Campus Sky Viewing Children are invited to join physiological changes and before they left the Flagstaff 7:30 - 10 p.m. an interactive program advantages visiting athletes area. Tours at 10 a.m., noon and NAU Campus Observatory with microscopes and live are receiving. 2 p.m. Let campus astronomers be specimens! Observe ants in your guides to the universe their colonies! Walk on on a cloudless night! Noon - 4 p.m. Exploring Martian Caves

Sinagua Middle School for Life, Shelter, Storage For program updates Jut Wynne, Ph.D., NAU Gymnasium and changes, visit us Learn from planetary scientists 5 - 6 p.m. Lowell Observatory about Mars’ land formations on Facebook and Scientists are looking at as you walk across a giant, scifest.org Martian caves for future gym-sized landscape map of robotic and human Mars. Explorers of all ages are exploration. They may welcome! also serve as shelter and storage, and could contain microscopic life!

Lowell Open House Early Childhood for preschool to 3rd grade 5 - 10 p.m. Lowell Observatory Afterschool Talk for middle school and high school students View the stars and listen to engaging presentations. Free Afterschool Workshop for ages noted in the event description admission begins at 5 p.m. Twilight Talks for high school students and adults Research Innovations for college students and life-long learners TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 The best 10 days Toddler Tales Teen Café: Aeronautical Stargazing at 9,000 Feet 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Engineering & Flight Control 6:30 - 9 p.m. of the year! Flagstaff Downtown Library 4:30 - 6 p.m. Arizona Snowbowl Your toddler will delight in this Bookmans Hart Prairie Lodge scifest.org special time for science-themed Learn about aeronautical Touch the sky from the stories and songs. engineering and flight Hart Prairie Deck with local control in paper airplanes. astronomers! We’ll start with a Astronomy for Preschoolers Explore different launching presentation inside and meet 1:30 - 3 p.m. techniques! the stars as night falls. Flagstaff Family Food Center Lowell Observatory Camps Movie Night: First Man Sleeping at High Altitude for Kids (LOCKs) Preschool Jennifer Henderson, D.O. 7 - 10 p.m. introduces young minds to 5 - 6 p.m. NAU Cline Library features and phases of the Lowell Observatory Enjoy this showing from the Moon! Parent attendance Explore the effects that living NAU CAL Film Series about and participation is required. in high altitude have on sleep. Neil Armstrong’s historic Ages 3 - 6. steps on the Moon. Stay DNA Rewriting the afterward to discuss the Imagine, Create, Learn Human Story cinematography behind 3 - 6 p.m. 6 - 7 p.m. the biographical drama. Tynkertopia Flagstaff Downtown Library The movie is rated PG-13. Engineer your own creation Discuss “A Brief History of Find full event details and using recycled materials. All Everyone Who Ever Lived: parking instructions at ages welcome! The Human Story Retold scifest.org. Through Our Genes,” by Crafty Corner Science Edition Adam Rutherford. Books 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. available at the Flagstaff WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25 East Flagstaff Downtown Library Community Library Information Desk. The Math in Dots Astronomy for Join in a fun-filled afternoon 9 - 11 a.m. Preschoolers of science-themed crafts. Meet William : Association for 1 - 2:30 p.m. Ages 5 - 13. Artist, Geologist, Supportive Child Care East Flagstaff Renaissance Man 2708 N Fourth Street Community Library Catapults! Alan Petersen, MNA Join us in the courtyard Lowell Observatory Camps 4 - 5 p.m. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. to explore math books for Kids (LOCKs) Preschool Coconino Community College, Museum of Northern Arizona “Press Here” and “10 Black introduces young minds to Fourth Street Campus Branigar Hall Dots.” Families can engage features and phases of the Test your skills at projectile After working on a geological in activities that promote Moon! Parent attendance motion. Build your own catapult survey of the Rocky creative thinking. and participation is required. to take home! For ages 6 - 12. Mountains, William Henry Ages 3 - 6. Reservations required, melinda. Holmes focused on the Grand Preschool Express [email protected] Canyon. His 1880s artwork 10:30 a.m. - 12: 30 p.m. Planetary Science on Display became iconic images. Flagstaff Downtown Library 1 - 4 p.m. Into the Canyon Enjoy science-themed stories, NAU du Bois Center 4 - 5 p.m. Animal Bone songs, games and more. For Learn about local research Museum of Northern Arizona Artifacts & Tools ages 4-5. during the Northern Arizona Join in a nature walk down the 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Planetary Science Alliance Rio de Flag Canyon. Become Willow Bend Environmental Downtown Geology Tour Poster Session. Free parking an ethnobotanist and search Education Center 1 - 2 p.m. pass available at NAU Walkup for native plants used by Native Animal bones have been used Mountain Sports Flagstaff Sky Dome parking lot. Select American cultures. Create a to make needles, musical Join Willow Bend and special permit for Festival of gourd craft to take home! instruments and hair pins. Mountain Sports on a walking Science at Sky Dome kiosk, Archaeologists have studied tour through the eyes of print and place on dashboard. a geologist. Discover the Water in Our Solar System tool-making techniques used Take a short walk to du Bois. Greg Vaughan, Ph.D., USGS by prehistoric people and ancient history of stones used 4 - 5 p.m. want to share them with you! in buildings. Reservations Imagine, Create, Learn Lowell Observatory required. Pick up your free 3 - 6 p.m. The Earth is sometimes called ticket at Mountain Sports Tynkertopia the water planet, but you might For program updates Flagstaff or sign up at Willow Engineer your own creation be surprised to find out how and changes, visit us on Bend http://willowbendcenter. using recycled materials. much water exists elsewhere in org/downtown-geology- All ages welcome! the solar system! Facebook and scifest.org sustainable-building/ Wednesday Sept. 25 continued

Creation Station Roving on Mars THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Ken Herkenhoff, Ph.D., USGS Flagstaff Downtown Library 5 - 6 p.m. Preschool Express Anatomy of a Portrait Join us for science-themed Lowell Observatory 10:30 a.m - 12: 30 p.m. 4 - 5:30 p.m. stories and crafts. Ages 3 With the recent loss of Flagstaff Downtown Library Coconino Center for the Arts and up. Opportunity, only the Mars Enjoy science-themed stories, This drawing workshop Science Laboratory ventures on. songs, games, and more. invites middle and high Flaming Hot Wednesdays Hear about these missions and Ages 4 - 5. school students to learn 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. plans for the next Mars rover! about skeletal structure in East Flagstaff Physiology creating human portraits. Community Library The Science & Engineering Alice Gibb, Ph.D., NAU Reservations required, Explore science to the Moon of Brewing 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. shawnskabelundstudio@ and beyond! Ages 12 - 17. 5 - 6 p.m. Murdoch Center gmail.com. Wanderlust Brewery Join in an hour of cardio-dance. Has Flagstaff’s Take a guided tour of the Learn about physiological Experiencing the changes that occur when we Climate Changed? Wanderlust Brewery. Learn Apollo 11 Splashdown Brian A. Klimowski, Ph.D., about the -making process exercise. Wear sneakers and Captain Larry Duncan National Weather Service and how beers get their comfortable clothes. All ages Retired Navy 4 - 5 p.m. distinctive flavors. Ages 21 and fitness levels welcome. 4 - 5 p.m. Lowell Observatory and over. Lowell Observatory Is climate change already Astronomy for Preschoolers With a front-row seat to happening in Flagstaff? We’ll Fun with Worms 1:30 - 3 p.m. the Apollo 11 splashdown, take a look at the data and 6 - 7 p.m. Flagstaff Downtown Library Navy helicopter pilot Captain knock out a few myths. East Flagstaff Lowell Observatory Camps Larry Duncan flew in news Community Library for Kids (LOCKs) Preschool photographers to capture Metal Working Learn how to harvest, house, introduces young minds to history in the making. Feel the 4 - 6 p.m. feed and care for your features and phases of the excitement through images! Artisan Metal Works composting worms that Moon! Parent attendance Learn about metal work produce great fertilizer! and participation is required. New Horizons Exploring through ironworking, welding, Ages 3 - 6. the Belt bending and plasma cutting. Bacteria as Cancer-Fighting Will Grundy, Ph.D., Lowell Take home your own creation! Delivery Systems Imagine, Create, Learn 5 - 6 p.m. Recommended for 5th to 8th Jen Martinez, Ph.D., NAU 3 - 6 p.m. Lowell Observatory grades. Reservations required, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Tynkertopia NASA’s New Horizons 928-773-4959. NAU Applied Research & Engineer your own creation spacecraft flew past an Development Bldg. 56, Large using a wide variety of recycled hourglass-shaped world earlier Robots and Drones Pod Conference Room materials. All ages welcome! this year. Hear what this object 4 - 5 p.m. Find out how bacterial cells can reveal about conditions Museum of Northern Arizona can be genetically manipulated Lego Club in the outer solar system. Learn how fun and easy it is to to create polymers that can 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. fly a drone or program robot! perform tasks like delivering East Flagstaff Flagstaff Star Party cancer-treating drugs. Find Community Library 6 - 10 p.m. Exploring Insects full event details and parking Join the Lego Club for a Buffalo Park 4 -5 p.m. instructions at scifest.org. special science-themed Explore Flagstaff’s precious Coconino Community College, challenge. For grades K - 5. starry sky with professional and Fourth Street Campus The Science Behind Wipe-Outs amateur astronomers hosting Make insect masks and hear 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Build Your Own Wind- 30 telescopes! Arrive early for an insect-themed story from Flagstaff Bicycle Revolution Powered Vehicle presentations. Bring your jacket! Marvelous Explorations We’ve all crashed on our bikes, 4 - 5 p.m. and there’s usually a scientific Coconino Community College through Science and Stories Mad About the Monsoon (MESS). Reservations required, reason why we fell. Take a look Fourth Street Campus Flagstaff Cloud Appreciators [email protected]. at some spectacular crashes Build and take home your own 6:30 - 8 p.m. Ages 2 and Up. and learn how to become a wind-powered vehicle from the Museum of Northern Arizona better rider! construction shop! Come early Branigar Hall for the open house at 3 p.m. The North American Monsoon Reservations required, melinda. brings beautiful and sometimes [email protected]. violent storms. Take a look at WE NEED YOUR For grades K - 6. the science behind Flagstaff’s FEEDBACK! rainy season and see some amazing clouds that roam over Scan this code or go to our website, the Northland. www.scifest.org, to share your thoughts. Thank you! Thursday Sept. 26 continued

Women in STEM Dissections Networking Night 4 - 5 p.m. Julie Lancaster, Consultant East Flagstaff Lisa Prato, Lowell Community Library 7 - 9 p.m. Learn how species evolved to Firecreek Coffee adapt to their environments. Hear two, 30-minute Use dissecting tools and presentations about how to take a look at the anatomy become an innovative thinker of worms, frogs and sharks! and the search for Earth-like Reservations required, planets. Meet role models, 928-606-6653. build your network! Bringing Back the

Black-Footed Ferret FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 Jennifer Cordova, Arizona Game and Fish Dept. Recycling Center Tour 5 - 6 p.m. 1 - 2 p.m. Lowell Observatory Materials Recovery Facility Find out how wildlife Join Willow Bend to see what biologists are reintroducing goes on behind the scenes of the rare black-footed ferret recycling. Meet at the facility, to the Northland. View skulls, northeast corner of Butler and skins and research tools. Babbitt. Reservations required, http://willowbendcenter.org/ CCC Science Night recycling-center/ Celebration 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Pioneer Museum Coconino Community College Open House Lone Tree Campus Suddenlink Presents: SCI Talks 3 - 5 p.m. 2800 S. Lone Tree Road 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Pioneer Museum Launch water rockets, observe Coconino Center for the Arts See the iron lung, learn about live organisms, participate in Hear four TEDx-inspired, 15-minute Science, Communication, medical history, explore the chemistry demonstrations, Innovation Talks. Doors open at 6 p.m., talks begin at science of blacksmithing and peer through microscopes, 6:30 p.m. Refreshments available for purchase. candle dipping, and check out view the night sky and make the newest exhibit, Resilience: your own catapult! Become Women in Flagstaff’s Past and a junior scientist and earn a Present. A River Reborn: The Restoration of prize! Free parking. Jane Marks, Ph.D., NAU After a century of disturbance, Fossil Creek was restored Camels in the Sky: Flagstaff Star Party with its travertine formations, steep waterfalls, deep pools Our Arabian Astronomy 6 - 10 p.m. and native fish. Take a look at this ecological success story! Heritage Buffalo Park Danielle , Lowell Explore Flagstaff’s precious 4 - 5 p.m. starry sky with professional Accurate Passion: Fine Art in the Service of Science Victor Leshyk, NAU Lowell Observatory and amateur astronomers Though sometimes seen as incompatible, science and art Most star names come hosting 30 telescopes! have a long history together. Hear how each field supports from Arabic. Hear about the Arrive early for presentations. the other and how the unique field of “SciArt” helps create astronomy folklore behind the Bring your jacket! names of stars visible during a well-rounded worldview. the Festival! Suddenlink Presents: Reimagining Creativity SCI Talks Sara Abercrombie, Ph.D., NAU 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. See schedule on Learn about the science of creativity and how to harness your opposite page. own curiosity and interest to live a more innovative life.

Campus Sky Viewing Tynkertopia: Learning by Doing 7:30 - 10 p.m. Veteran educator Alice Christie, Ph.D., shares the NAU Campus Observatory Tynkertopia journey, a story about connecting life’s Explore Flagstaff’s precious meaningful experiences into a culminating endeavor to starry sky with professional create Flagstaff’s STEM/STEAM Community Center. and amateur astronomers hosting 30 telescopes! Arrive early for presentations. Suddenlink is the lead Supernova Friend of the Festival supporting SCI Talks. Apollo Training Sites Hike Explore TGen: Home of National Weather SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 9:30 a.m. - Noon Flagstaff’s Disease Detectives Service Open House National Monument 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tagging Monarch Butterflies Meet in front of Visitor Center TGen Camp Navajo Army Depot 8:30 - 11 a.m. Take this guided hike to sites Go behind the scenes of Bellemont, I-40, Exit 185 where Apollo astronauts trained. the Translational Genomics Take a tour, visit with Tag colorful migrating Monarch Bring sturdy footwear, a daypack, Research Institute and find out forecasters and technicians, butterflies as they refuel on water, sunscreen, hat and how disease detectives chase and engage in interactive sunflower nectar! Find out more snacks. Reservations required, down deadly outbreaks. activities. Catch the weather at https://swmonarchs.org/ 928-526-0502. balloon launch at noon, upcoming-events.php. Make Sustainable Building Tour 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.! your reservation by calling Red Tracking the Health 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Rock State Park, 928-282-6907. of our National Parks Willow Bend Environmental Fantastic Voyage 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Education Center Noon - 4 p.m. Picture Canyon Hike Walnut Canyon National Monument Join Willow Bend, Coconino Flagstaff Medical Center 9 a.m. - Noon If you’ve ever made a list of all County and others for the This child-sized health fair Picture Canyon the birds you hear or the flowers annual self-guided Sustainable showcases fun displays and See , wildlife and you see, you are equipped to be a Building Tour. See construction hands-on activities centered Flagstaff’s only waterfall on this citizen scientist! Help National Park methods, rainwater harvesting on healthcare and the three-mile hike! Bring hiking researchers collect information. demonstrations, xeriscape mysteries of the human body. shoes, weather-appropriate gardening, greywater systems clothes, sun protection, water Prehistoric Tool and and solar power. Tour packets Museum of Northern Arizona and snacks. Reservations Technology Demonstrations are available at Willow Bend on Open House required, robert.@ 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. the day of the tour. 2 - 4 p.m. flgastaffaz.gov Walnut Canyon National Monument Museum of Northern Arizona Participate in hands-on activities Back West Celebration Check out the exhibits that Homolovi Pueblo Guided Tour featuring prehistoric tools and of Stone Balancing feature life on the Colorado 9 a.m. - Noon technology used to grind corn 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Plateau. Homolovi State Park and hunt. Willow Bend Environmental Visitor Center Education Center Hot Topics Café: Who’s Take I-40 Exit 257, Ponderosa Forest Ecology Hike Participate in this annual in Charge of Space Travel? proceed north 1.5 miles 9:30 - 11 a.m. celebration of stone balancing 3 - 4:30 p.m. Tour a remote ancestral Walnut Canyon National Monument with hands-on activities, a kids Museum of Northern Arizona village within Homolovi This guided hike to a historic area and demonstrations. Branigar Hall State Park and Observatory. ranger cabin will show evidence of Should space exploration be Reservations required, wildfires dating to the 1500s and Tynkertopia Open House an international endeavor? 928-289-4106. forest change since 1876. Meet in 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Should it be privatized, front of the Walnut Canyon Visitor Tynkertopia financed with tax dollars or Walnut Canyon National Center. Bring sturdy footwear, a Visit Flagstaff’s STEM/STEAM paid for by advertising? Hear Monument Open House daypack, water, sunscreen, hat Community Center. Develop from a panel of scientists and 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and snacks. Reservations required, creativity through curiosity, philosophers. Walnut National Monument 928-526-3367. wonder, playfulness and Celebrate your National problem solving. BIG Event: Believing In Girls Park Service Public Lands Day Fort Valley Experimental 3 - 6 p.m. by experiencing a National Park Forest Open House A Walk in the Woods: Exploring NAU Fieldhouse or National Monument near you! 10 a.m. - Noon the Ponderosa Pine Forest See how STEM is woven into Hwy 180, 1 mile west of 10:30 a.m. - Noon Girl Scout programming. Wupatki National Snowbowl Road Fort Tuthill County Park Explore hands-on activities Monument Open House Join the Friends of Fort Valley See how the forest is with other Girl Scouts from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. as hosts lead tours of historic responding to restoration all over Northern Arizona. Wupatki National Monument buildings and discuss ecological treatments. Find out how Celebrate Public Lands Day restoration and climate change researchers at NAU’s Ecological Saving the Ocean by experiencing a Northland research underway at the nation’s Restoration Institute are working from Plastic National Park or National first forest research site. to prevent severe wildfires. 4 - 5:30 p.m. Monument! Meet at the forest resiliency Willow Bend Environmental Full STEAM Ahead interpretive sign north of the Education Center Sunset Crater Volcano National 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fort Tuthill Bike Park. Find out how to reduce your Monument Open House Flagstaff High School use of plastic and keep waste 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Join the Coconino Coalition for Saturday Story Stop out of the oceans. Dig through Sunset Cration Volcano Children & Youth for the 9th 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. a mini beach and make a clay National Monument annual Early Childhood Fair: Flagstaff Downtown Library creation. Celebrate your National Full STEAM Ahead with hands-on This family time features science Park Service Public Lands Day activities, movement, resources stories and a craft. For all ages. by experiencing a National Park and healthy snacks. Ages 0 - 8. or National Monument near you! SATURDAY, Sept. 28 continued USGS Flagstaff Science Science History Podcast SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 Campus Open House Live Recording Flagstaff Star Party 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Frank von Hippel, Ph.D., NAU 6 - 10 p.m. Lava River Cave Hike USGS 5 - 6:30 p.m. Buffalo Park 8:30 a.m. - Noon Explore interactive displays Flagstaff Medical Center Explore Flagstaff’s and activities related to McGee Auditorium precious starry sky with Step back in time more than geology, geography, biology, Experience a live podcast astronomers hosting 500,000 years to explore hydrology, planetary science about human genetics. 30 telescopes. Enjoy lavacicles and splash downs and mapping! Learn about our evolutionary “Music Under the Stars” in an ancient lava tube. This history revealed through by the Dark Skies String primitive, strenuous hike totals Hart Prairie Preserve the genetic code and our Quartet. Bring your 1.5 miles. Reservations required, Nature Walk resistance to disease. jacket! [email protected] 10 - 11:30 a.m. Meet at the Fort Valley The State of the Climate Moon: A World Away, The Arboretum at Plaza Shopping Center 7 - 8:30 p.m. Not a World Apart Flagstaff Fall Open House 1000 N. Humphreys Street Riordan Mansion State Dan Foley, NAU 9 a.m. - Noon SW corner near the guardrail Historic Park 7 - 8 p.m. Bring the family for hands-on Learn about birds, wildflowers, Panelists will share climate Riordan Mansion State activities, educational exhibits, forest ecology and The Nature science and solutions Historic Park guided tours, hiking trails and Conservancy’s efforts to updates including the first Learn about Arizona’s fun in the forest! restore the alpine meadow year of implementing connections to the on this 90-minute walk! Flagstaff’s Climate Action exploration and Space, 3D Printing and No dogs please. and Adaptation Plan. understanding of the Design Workshop Moon, and the prospects 10 - 11:30 a.m. To the Moon Campus Sky Viewing of future space tourism! NAU Cline Library Maker Lab 2:30 - 4 p.m. 7:30 - 10 p.m. Learn the basics of 3D printing USGS Building 3 NAU Campus Observatory Homolovi Pueblo and TinkerCAD to design your Conference Room Stargaze on a clear night! Star Party favorite space object. Free Interact with a panel of 7 - 10 p.m. parking available behind the lunar scientists as they discuss Homolovi State Park library. Reservations required, current and future Moon Visitor Center https://nau.libcal.com/ exploration. Join in the star party event/5487260 at the new Homolovi Observatory Scenic Science Chairlift (WHO). Listen to a Starting at 10 a.m. program and gaze Arizona Snowbowl through the Moore Soar to the alpine tundra and Telescope and meet a Ranger at the top to learn I-telescope inside about the sky island ecosystem, the museum. forest wildlife and geologic formations of the San Francisco U.S. Naval Observatory Peaks. Call to reserve one of 50 Open House free tickets (limit two per party), 7 - 10 p.m. [email protected] U.S. Naval Observatory The Navy uses the stars to set the world’s clocks. Take a tour and find out why the Navy has an observatory so far away from an ocean!

Campus Sky Viewing 7:30 - 10 p.m. NAU Campus Observatory Peer into the universe on a clear night! SUPERNOVA FRIENDS

GALACTIC FRIENDS Charlot M. Root

Sharon Molly and Northern Arizona Joseph Herman Association of Tewksbury- Foundation REALTORS® Bloom Maury Herman and Karen Kinne Herman

STELLAR FRIENDS APS • Bonnie Stevens’ Communication Station • Coconino Center for the Arts • Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU • Robert and Sheila Edgar • Joy Cone Flagstaff • Kevin and Gretchen Schindler • Little America • McCarthy & Weston • McClanahan Family Fund • Nestle Purina • NAU Center for Ecosystem Science and Society • NAU College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences • Riordan Mansion State Historic Park • Rocky Mountain Research Station PLANETARY FRIENDS Arizona Snowbowl • Arizona Space Grant • Byron and Jennifer Hayes • Bruce and Jane Hungate • Clear Aire Audio • Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth • David and Janet Gillette • Flagstaff Unified School District • KAFF Country/KAFF Legends/The Mountain/Hits 106 • Greg and Alicia Vaughan • Intel Benevity Fund • John and Sara Casciani • Karen Malis- and Shannon Clark • KOLT Country/Rewind The Wolf/The Big Talker • Paul and Deborah Holbrook • Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Flagstaff • Pilkington Advertising • Pioneer Title • The Jim St. Leger Family • The Krueger Family • Yavapai Broadcasting COMETARY FRIENDS Brandon and Mackenzie Lurie • Brian A. Klimowski • Cornerstone Environmental Consultants • Joelle and Roger Clark • Noah and Debi Stalvey • Richard and Nelda Vaughan • Tony Hannigan • Virginia Watahomigie ​​

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