Catawba Science Center
Catawba Science Center offers birthday parties (new party coming soon to go along with our Goosebumps traveling exhibit) and existing education programs and events.
Address: 234 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC 28601
Website: catawbascience.org
How to register: Please review GSCP2P's registration requirements before registering. Visit our online calendar for upcoming events or contact Toni Abernathy at Catawba Science Center by calling 828-455-9931 or e-mailing camps@catawbascience.org to register your troop for additional opportunities.
Programs On Demand
Germs Alive!
Daisy 
Brownie 
Junior
- Wash your hands while singing the "germ song."
- Play Germ Magnet with your troop. Wash your hands again afterward.
- Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
- Conduct the mucus demonstration with your troop.
- Grow a mold culture. Show what formed at a troop meeting.
- Make a clean room chart, and do your chores for at least one week.
Cost: $9 per girl, $7 per adult, Outreach: $150 + mileage
Group Size: Onsite 20 girl minimum, Outreach 24 girl maximum
Super Science
Daisy Brownie Junior
- Make static electricity by rubbing a balloon or a plastic or rubber comb on a fleece blanket or wool sweater.
- Conduct a balloon or other static electricity investigation that demonstrates properties of static electricity.
- Conduct one other static electricity investigation.
- Do a sink-or-float investigation.
- Do a color-morphing investigation.
- Do a color-layering investigation.
Cost: $9 per girl, $7 per adult, Outreach: $150 + mileage
Group Size: Onsite 20 girl minimum, Outreach 24 girl maximum
Earth Rocks
Daisy Brownie Junior
- Explain the meaning of the word “geology.”
- Explain why this kind of science is an important part of your world.
- Look for different kinds of rock or minerals while on a rock hunt with your family or troop.
- Identify the rocks you see on your rock hunt. Use the information in your handbook to determine which types of rocks you have collected.
- With a magnifying glass, take a closer look at your collection. Determine any differences between your specimens.
- With your family or troop, make a mineral test kit, and test rocks according to the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
- Record the results in your handbook.
- With your family or troop, identify on a road map of your state some geological features in your area.
- Identify some of the geological building materials used in building your home.
- Identify some of the geological materials used around your community.
Cost: $9 per girl, $7 per adult, Outreach: $150 + mileage
Group Size: Onsite 20 girl minimum, Outreach 24 girl maximum
