Wisconsin Science Festival events
The Wisconsin Science Festival welcomes people of all ages to discover the wonders of the sciences, arts, and more. Events are planned statewide for the annual celebration from Oct. 14-20, 2024! This year’s theme for events centers on agriculture.
For more information visit WiSciFest.org #WISciFest
October 14, 2024
Food Sovereignty Talk with Misty Cook
UWSP, DUC Room 206 at 4:30 pm
Misty Cook, author of Medicine Generations: Natural Native American Medicines Traditional to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Tribe will share knowledge Medicines that have been told through stories in her family within the tribe. All are welcome.
October 15, 2024
Junior Science Bison Night at the Olson Museum
UWSP, Science Building at 5:30 pm
What is the difference between a bison and a buffalo? How tall is a bison? What is a bison’s hump made of? Let’s learn about bison together! Join museum education staff while we dig into the past to discover the history of this giant mammal and how they live today. Get an up-close look at our bison specimen. This program is free and open to the public and will take place on the first floor of the Science Building near the pendulum.
October 17, 2024
Bison Story Time at the Olson Museum
UWSP, Science Building at 10:00 am
Come join the museum staff for a fun, hands-on Story Time session all about the American bison. We will read stories, sing songs, make a small project to take home. This program is free and open to the public. Recommended for children, 2-5. Story Time will take place in the museum Discovery Center in the Science Building. Space is limited.
October 19, 2024
Bring Them Home
UWSP DUC Theater at 2:00 pm
Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality and identity, but would provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization.
October 20, 2024
Hinkigowi – We Feast Together!
3:00-6:00 pm
“To have community we must share a meal.” Hinkigowi, We Feast Together, brings this core value to the forefront in this Native foodways project. Participants will not only deepen their understanding and appreciation of Native foods but also learn how to explore food from their own local communities to learn more about their own identities.
This project received an Opportunity Grant to bring native and non-native communities to the table to share a meal completely sourced from Native food producers and harvesters. Community members will have an opportunity to prepare and cook the dinner, while Rubina Martini, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation as well as Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, researches and visits Wisconsin Native producers to gather ingredients.
October 20, 2024
The Sun, Our Living Star
Blocher Planetarium/Science Building 2:00 pm
Discover the secrets of our Sun with never-before-seen images of the Sun’s surface. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The Sun consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen each second and is 500 times as massive as all the planets combined. You will experience the Sun’s violent surface in this immersive full dome format planetarium show. *Recommended for all audiences
All Week
Curated Book Feature – Native American Agriculture
Bound to Happen Books, 1008 N. Main St.
Bound to Happen Books is partnering to showcase books about traditional and contemporary Native American foodways, agriculture, food sovereignty and more.
