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Day 4 - Oregon Science Festival

Oregon Science Festival

September 12, 2024 Schedule

Forest Story Time

World Forestry Center Discovery Museum

11:30 AM | 4033 SW Canyon Rd | Portland

A staff member will read forest based children’s books. Additional forest crafts will be available. Target age: 6 and under, though all are welcome.

Lesson Beach

– Learn the science and practice of making a working sand castle/sculpture
Bird Alliance of Oregon

12-2pm | Seaside OR, on the beach at the Turnaround

Lesson Beach provides instructors, and all the equipment and understanding of the physics of sand and water so you can make a much better sand castle/sculpture.

North Pole Portland

Meet the Ocean

6:30 PM | 1421 SE Stark @ Experiment PDX | Portland

Meet the Ocean founder and underwater photographer Paul North is traveling to the North Pole! Join him for a Zoom presentation from the top of our planet as he discusses his discoveries and shares the natural history of the creatures that live north of the Arctic Circle.

Art of Pressed Cider

Portland Fruit Tree Project

5:30-7:30pm | 4109 NE 19th Ave | Portland

This special event is part of OMSI’s Oregon Science Festival week! Bring your own container/jug for cider, we will have cups for sampling and a live press to show folx how it’s done, and bring fruit if you have any! We will harvest what is ripe from the orchard also!
Participate in the care of this community orchard resource through joining monthly work parties!
If you’re able to come, please bring personal pruning and/or landscaping tools, uniquely identified. And, of course, dress for the weather! We’ll bring an orchard ladder, some buckets, and tools. Hope to see you there!

Moth Pinning Class

PDX Insectarium

5-6pm | 5429 N Moore Ave | Portland

Learn the techniques of relaxing, pinning, and drying dead moth speciments. Ticket includes Insectarium admission, pins, forceps, styrofoam pinning block, and one dead moth. There is an option shadowbox add-on.

TBD

MCornelius Public Library

1pm-4pm | 1370 N Adair St | Cornelius

More info coming soon!

History of Tektronix Tour

VintageTek Museum

3-4pm | VintageTek Museum, 13489 SW Karl Braun Dr | Beaverton

If you use a computer or the internet, watch TV or make use of wireless technology, join us for a tour of the VintageTek Museum on the Tektronix campus in Beaverton. Learn the history and see the technology of an Oregon company that has been at the forefront of the electronics revolution since its founding in 1946.

4:30-5:30pm | VintageTek Museum, 13489 SW Karl Braun Dr | Beaverton

If you use a computer or the internet, watch TV or make use of wireless technology, join us for a tour of the VintageTek Museum on the Tektronix campus in Beaverton. Learn the history and see the technology of an Oregon company that has been at the forefront of the electronics revolution since its founding in 1946.

6-7pm | VintageTek Museum, 13489 SW Karl Braun Dr | Beaverton

If you use a computer or the internet, watch TV or make use of wireless technology, join us for a tour of the VintageTek Museum on the Tektronix campus in Beaverton. Learn the history and see the technology of an Oregon company that has been at the forefront of the electronics revolution since its founding in 1946.

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