More than basketball

School vacation is next week and if you and your kids are not up to attending the wide array of high school basketball games Maine has to offer, many of our partners have other activities your familiy might enjoy. The Challenger Learning Center is having a science camp for ages 5 through grade 5. Your children will build […]

2015 MSF event schedule is online!

The 2015 Maine Science Festival event schedule is now online at our updated website! MSF events start at 4pm on Friday, March 20th, with a Teen Tech Night at the Maine Discovery Museum, and continue until our last scheduled event on Sunday, March 22 at 5pm with a discussion of Science and Faith at Penobscot […]

Family Engineering Night

Family Engineering Night is back at the Challenger Learning Center of Maine! Gather everyone together to create a catapult as part of an engineering challenge on January 29th from 6:00-7:30pm. Admission is $3 per person or $10 per family. The proceeds support the Center‘s mission to inspire careers in STEM fields. (You must preregister by January 28th […]

Teenagers are awesome

Many teens, like the adults they will become, are not only conscientious about the world around them but are innovative in finding solutions to the problems of said world. Energy costs are rising, and to help with those costs, a British teen, Yasser Khattak, has invented smart plug sockets you can control from an app on your […]