ing Disc nspir overy e: I fo nc r 3 ie 0 c Ye S a f r o s l ! a v i t s e F f f a t s g a l F 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 Festival of Science Passport_Flagstaff Ad.indd 1 5/9/19 4:22 PM ing Disc nspir overy e: I fo nc r 3 ie 0 c Ye S a f r o s l ! a v i t MONDAY, SEPT. 16 s e F f f a Pre-Festival Bonus Event! t s g a l 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 Pettit 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 Grand Canyon 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 Arizona 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 Lowell 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 Pueblo 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 Mars 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 Main 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.