_800x250.jpeg) |  | | Make Your Season with Kentucky Science Center
Now - January 2, 2021 |  | | Make the most out of the holiday season with Kentucky Science Center's annual Make Your Season extravaganza! In light of rising COVID-19 numbers, Kentucky Science Center is adding brand-new virtual experiences. While this year’s celebration will feel a little different, we still want people to have something to look forward to on the calendar.
In-Person Make Your Season events will include several MakerPlace activities (free drop-ins, $5 Make-and-Takes, and 90 minute workshops) and Winter Break Pay By Day Camps.
Upcoming In-Person Events:
MakerPlace Workshop: DIY Snow Globe (In-person at KSC)
Saturday, December 5, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Polar Express 3D
Showing throughout the holidays, beginning on Sunday, December 13
Our unique online experiences will get the whole family involved in the fun of doing science. Virtual Make Your Season activities include Virtual Family STEAM Club, Sensory Friendly Virtual Fun with Frosty, and MakerPlace to Go Kits that are available for purchase in our Gift Shop and can be done at home.
Upcoming Virtual Events:
Virtual Family STEAM Club: Where Would We Be Without Engineers
Saturday, December 5, 10:00 a.m.
Sensory Friendly Virtual Fun with Frosty
Sunday, December 6, 3:00 p.m.
| | | | | | With limited capacity, mask requirements, and more than 50,000 square feet of space, families can Do Science safely inside the building. Make Your Season activities will focus on aviation, including engineering challenges and a flight course where families can launch a paper airplane more than 30 feet in the air. Check out our COVID-19 protocols and purchase your admission tickets in advance. | | | | | | FREE Month of Membership When You Join Today | |  | | Become a member today and your benefits won't expire until January of 2022!
As a member, you’ll enjoy:
- Unlimited admission to Kentucky Science Center permanent exhibits
- Admission to more than 350 reciprocal museums and science centers worldwide
- Discounts on parking, movies, camps, birthday parties, and gift shop purchases
- Exclusive member events and programs
- And more!
Use promo code 1FREE and get 13 months of membership for the price of 12!
Memberships also make great gifts. Click here for full membership benefits and levels. | | | |  |  | | | | | | NEW: Community Access Membership | |  | | Kentucky Science Center is now offering a FREE Family Membership for all families receiving SNAP/WIC benefits.
Families will just need to show their SNAP/WIC card and a photo ID in person at the Science Center to activate their membership. Completed membership form and proof of SNAP benefits can also be emailed. Membership cards will be mailed within 3-6 weeks of membership activation.
Questions? Send us an email or call 502-560-7158.
| | | | | | | | Kentucky Science Center at Mall St. Matthews | |  | | Need a break during holiday shopping this year? Spend an hour with Kentucky Science Center at Mall St. Matthews!
Challenge your children to investigate, explore, build, predict and test, and shop for shapes, textures, and colors - all through experimental and imaginative play. You'll find versions of some of your favorite Science in Play exhibits in our Mall St. Matthews location, across from the restrooms near Aeropostale.
Our mall location is now open! Admission is FREE for members and $5 for non-member children. | | | |  | | | | | Winter Break Pay by Day Camp | |  | | School's Out Winter Break Pay by Day Camp
December 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, and 30
Themes include 3,2,1, Build! and Marvelous Messes
When school’s out, science is in! Kentucky Science Center’s mission is to help your child learn, even when JCPS is closed. In our pay by day camps your child will develop skills and make friendships that will last a lifetime. Our camp encourages all campers to play, tinker, and investigate the world around them with plenty of time to explore their favorite science center. | | | | | | | | Science in the News | |  | | Check out some of our favorite science happenings!
On Sunday night, December 13, countless meteors will shoot across the sky as space particles burn up in our atmosphere and meet a fiery end. This meteor shower, which is likely to be the most spectacular of the year, strikes every December and arises not from a flamboyant comet but from an ordinary asteroid
For the first time in almost half a century, scientists are going to get their hands on new moon rocks. The lunar samples will come from a site that was volcanically active relatively recently.
Hot blue stars kicked out of their cradles may explain a mysterious ultraviolet glow that surrounds the disks of many spiral galaxies. The bright, young, runaway stars are located in regions where gas is too tenuous for new stars to form.
Leaf-cutting worker ants might look like they’d be helpless against an enemy soldier ant many times their size. But some of the smaller ants have a secret: Their entire body is coated with a thin but tough layer of mineral armor. | |  |  | | | | | |
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