September 13, 2024 Schedule
TBD
Betsy & Iya | Tour
Learn how Betsy & Iya takes ideas from the sketch book to a finished piece of jewelry with CAD, 3D printing, and lost wax metal casting. Tour our NW 24th Ave Production Studio, get up close and person with our makers and equipment, and see a live demonstration of lost wax casting.
Lichens and Mosses of the Pacific Northwest
Ruth Williams | Class
Lichens and moss form miniature ecosystems all around us. Our forests host a diversity of these tiny organisms, each with unique structures, functions, and stories. Join instructor Ruth Williams as she takes you on a walking exploration of some common green wonders you will see on local trails. Learn what makes each of them unique and how to identify common species. About the instructor: Ruth Williams is a consulting arborist and plant enthusiast with degrees in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture from UC Davis. She has been drawing and painting plants for 17 years. She teaches botanical illustration and plant identification classes at Hoyt.
Class size is limited, please register in advance. Registration closes a week before the class. Rain or shine. Please dress accordingly. There is a restroom at the beginning of the hike, but none along the trail. The pace of the hike is slow, and there are some modest elevation changes. Free with garden admission, suggested donation of $5, parking is free.
Butterfly Pinning Class
Portland Insectarium | Workshop
Learn the techniques of relaxing, pinning, and drying dead butterfly specimens. Ticket includes zoo admission, pins, forceps, styrofoam pinning block, and a dead butterfly (rice paper butterfly or Indonesian swallowtail). There is an optional shadow box add-on. Recommend age 10+ as pinning requires fine motor skills and uses sharp objects. Kids under age 16 must have an adult present with a ticket. If you are attending with another person and do not want to pin a bug, a $10 guest ticket is required.
Tickets $70
Filible’s Folly
OregonRocketry
OregonRocketry will be launching Model and Sport Rockets from Low to High power at our annual Fillible’s Folly launch just outside of Sheridan OR. Public is welcome to come see the rockets, or bring out the ones you’ve built to fly yourself at our event. (There is a fee to fly at this event, but spectators are free.) Click here for more info.
Festival Kickoff – Spacetime in Science Fiction
OMSI | Lecture
Join us as we kick off the Oregon Science Festival weekend with a special night of science!
Erin Macdonald, PhD, will be here to teach us the science of spacetime and how we see that portrayed in our favorite science fiction franchises. We will look at artificial gravity, faster-than-light travel methods, time travel, and multiverse theories! Erin will also share a bit about her career and how she made the move from gravitational wave researcher to science advisor in Hollywood.
6:15pm | Doors open
6:30pm | Lecture: Spacetime in Science Fiction
7:30pm | Q&A session
8:00pm | Book signing
Rehearsing Disaster: Understanding Earthquake Preparedness Behavior in an Interactive Environment
Lewis & Clark College | Workshop
Can preparing for disaster be fun? Our interdisciplinary research team (a geologist, a psychologist, a computer scientist, and a media studies scholar) has created three earthquake preparedness-related video games used in experiments about what motivates earthquake preparedness. We are hosting a hands-on game play session where visitors of middle school age and older can try each of the games. We will also bring and demonstrate items that appear in the games, like a wrench for shutting off gas leaks and a two-bucket toilet system. Following the gaming session, we’ll have some interactive discussion about the games, the research question each game was designed to test, and the most interesting things we’ve found in our research so far