This week I had a request for my Spooky Science show in January. The teachers, students and PTA just wanted a fun science assembly and looked at what Spooky Science had to offer and asked for it. Science is fun anytime, but Spooky Science does have CO2 smoke bubbles, liquid nitrogen, static electric generators, elephant toothpaste and lots of weird science. It was quite fun to perform and refreshing not to have this in the typical Halloween set-up.
Category: Science Show
Science Rocks & Fossils
These are a part ot a show for primary students where they wanted to talk about rocks and fossils. Check out my fish, he came from Montana at the same site that US President Truman got his (which he later gave to the leader of Japan as a gift.) Millions of years of history here on the bench. Of course, the kids still like the shark’s teeth.
STEM and Primary Shows
This week will feature a STEM night show at a magnet school. This will be my 3rd year at this school and I feel honored that Getting Excited About Science will be a part of it. The week ends with pimary elementary shows with custom topics for the students. Friday’s show is a repeat show at a Palatine school (5th year in a row there). Even with all of these shows, I am looking forward the summer library shows. I am bringing out different demonstrations to tie into the library reading themes and digging deep into science.
New Year Shows
Jan 2 represents the first science shows of 2013 with a 10:00 and a 1:00 show at the Palatine Public Library. The second week of January represents the school shows starting up again. Happy New Year!
October Public shows
Getting Excited About Science will be performing for the general public at the following locations. This is of course in addition to the many school assemblies in the month which are closed to the public.
Oak Park Conservatory 9/30 @11:15
Carmel, IN School showcase 10/2 @ 11:00
Arlington Height Park District 10/6 @2:45
Flossmoor Library 10/10 @ 7:00
LaSalle Library 10/18 @ 6:30
Village of Riverside 10/26 @ 6:30 and 7:30
Chicago Daily Plaza 10/28 @ 2:30
Minooka Jr. High Spooky Science 10/30 @ 7:00
End of Summer Science Shows
The summer is ending with a lot of shows from Michigan on Wednesday and then Will County Fair (Illinois) August 24-26 and then Cicero (Illinois) festival August 26-27. School showcases start in late August. Book now for best available dates for school assemblies.
National Night Out, Will County Fair and Cicero back to School
Getting Excited About Science will be performing a large publc show for Burr Ridge, IL National Night Out celebration at 7:00 pm I love performing for large public events. Latter this month we will be performing for Will County Fair (3 days) and Cicero’s big public back to school festival (2 days).
Ludington and East Lansing Michigan
2 science shows in Ludington on Monday and an outdoor public show in East Lansing on Tuesday. This is and exreamly busy week with other shows in Germantown, WI and Ottawa, Worth, Winfield, Hickory Hills, and Downers Grove, Il. All in all over 26 hours of drive time not including and stops for food/gas/R&R.
Willard Library e-mail
Just received this from my contact at a Willard Library where I performed 2 shows:
You did a totally EXCEPTIONAL program for Willard Library on Tuesday.
Thank you very much!
“You have an amazing comprehension of science and are able to
communicate marvelous, interesting concepts to the audience in such a fun, creative, exciting way. Even seeing the show two times was thrilling for me.”
Battle Creek Library
Busy summer library shows from La Cross, Wisconsin to Battle Creek, Michigan in the next week. Here is a link to Battle Creek’s listing in the local newspaper.