Experiences that count

A morning among the tidepools: anemones, hermit crabs, and the rocky intertidal food web, guided by a marine biologist.

Walk the discovery site at Sutter's Mill with costumed guides; pan for gold like a Forty-Niner.

A day exploring dunes, marsh food webs, and how wind and water reshape the Texas coast.

Kids storyboard, shoot, and screen their own short films, then talk about the experience with a live audience.

Hands-on lab: dissolving, filtering, and identifying mystery materials by their properties.

Teams design, build, and test simple machines to solve a rescue-mission challenge.

Adobe brick making, weaving, and stories of pre-Columbian and mission-period California.