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  1. Science on the Square: Free Family Night

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    Thursday, October 15 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

     

    It’s a FREE night of museum fun from 4–8 pm as the Wisconsin Science Festival presents Science on the Square: Madison Night Market Fusion. Check out all MCM has to offer in addition to an exciting line-up of hands-on science activities.

    Stop by to check out these hands-on science stations plus MORE activities throughout the museum!

    • Code to Connect – Coding Concept Activities
    • WCER and the Dept. of Educational Psychology – Learning through your body at the MAGIC Lab
    • Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection – Bug Out!
    • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom – Strawberry DNA Extraction
    • SleepHealth Ambassadors – Sleep Superheros: Unlock your hidden powers
    • ATC – How electricity flows
    • Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab – Story Stones
    • Wisconsin Center for Origins Research – Origins of Life
    • Cardea, Inc – Your heart & you
    • School of Medicine & Public Health – Keep your lungs squishy!
    • Social and Moral Learning Lab – Mind games: explore how your brain works
    • BadgerBots Team 1306 – Robotics demonstrations
    • UW-Madison Neuroscience Training Program – Human Brain Demonstration

    For more information about Science on the Square and to see all participating businesses, visit: wiscifest.org/SotS

     

    Staff dress-up theme for the day: Science Rules (Dress like a scientist, scientific concept, or… use your imagination!)

    Costumes are welcome but never mandatory! 

     

     

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  2. Science on the Square

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    October 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Back for its eighth year, the ever-popular Science on the Square event offers free science demonstrations and hands-on activities throughout Downtown Madison as part of the Wisconsin Science Festival. Join us for drop-in science fun from 5-8 pm, with activities led by:

    • Wisconsin Center for Origins Research: Exploring Exoplanets
    • UW Chemistry Department—Alpha Chi Sigma
    • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom: Soil Rocks! 
    • SleepHealth Ambassadors: Snoozeapalooza
    • Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Invasive Species Hunt
    • UW-Madison Women in Chemistry: Cyanotype Sun Prints
    • UW-Chemistry GSFLC: Boo Bubbles
    • IBio Go: Who Are These Little Guys?
    • UW-Madison Schloss Lab: What Does This Feel Like? What Color Is That?
    • WIPAC: IceCube Neutrino Observatory: The Strangest Telescope in the World
    • UW-Madison Medical Physics: Putting the “Rad” in Radiation
    • Cardea: Keep Your Heart in Rhythm
    • BadgerBots: Robot Demo
    • Maydm: Make a Binary Beaded Keychain
    • UW-Madison Psychology Department: Rockin’ with the Data

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  3. Free Night: Science on the Square

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    October 17, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Enjoy FREE admission 4-8 pm as part of Science on the Square, an event for all ages that kicks off the Wisconsin Science Festival. Join us for hands-on STEM activities, including:

    • UW Neuroscience Outreach, 5-7:45 pm: Join our friends from UW Neuroscience for brain-building activities and interact with REAL neurological specimens. 
    • MCM Wild Wonders: Squishy Circuits. 5-7 pm: Making circuits using play dough and LED lights.
    • MCM Idea Lab, 5-7 pm: Create art and storytelling projects with the Idea Machine
    • Sound Science: Enjoy an eerie, unusual theremin and plastic bag percussion demo, 5-6 pm  
    • Sound Science: Makey-Makey synthesizer demos, 6-8 pm
    • Sound Science: UW Speech & Hearing Clinic: How do we hear?
    • Story Time with Alice in Dairyland, 5-5:15 pm and 6-6:15 pm
    • Women in Chemistry: How does the sun power chemical reactions?
    • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom: Right this very minute on a Wisconsin farm…
    • UW IBio Go: Get to know our aquatic invertebrate friends
    • UW-Madison Hite Lab: How does a tiny parasite travel from the lake to the sky?
    • UW-Madison Freedman and Whitman Lab: What can you see in the soil?
    • UW-Madison Picasso Lab: Why are perennial plants and soil best friends? 
    • UW-Madison Research in Developmental Disabilities and Language Lab
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