WEATHER FORECAST FORCES FESTIVAL CHANGES

 

Despite Saturday's forecast of thundershowers, the Virginia Science Festival in Roanoke will still go on ... just indoors! So for a fun -- and dry! -- day of science, make plans to attend the festival. 

 

All exhibits that were located in Elmwood Park -- including NASA's EarthDome -- will now be housed within the Roanoke Market Building, Taubman Museum of Art, Center in the Square, and Science Museum of Western Virginia.

 

The Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council's TechJam and all robot exhibits will be inside the Taubman Museum of Art's theater.

A portion of WDBJ7 WeatherFest will go inside Center in the Square atrium, while visitors can meet WDBJ7's meteorologists -- and act like one! -- inside the Science Museum's WDBJ7 Weather Studio. 

The first-ever U.S. Pea Shooting Championship will take place in the Roanoke Market Building food court mezzanine.


All other Elmwood Park exhibitors will be spread throughout the Roanoke Market Building (Charter Hall and food court), Center in the Square, and Science Museum.

The festival opens Saturday at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. 

 

Valley Metro's free Star City Trolley Service will run 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. between the Roanoke Market Building and the festival's two other locations: Jefferson College of Health Sciences, and Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, which is offering free and plentiful parking all day.

Astronaut Larry DeLucas will deliver a fun and family-friendly presentation in the Science Museum's Hopkins Planetarium starting at 11 a.m. Attendance is free, but you must obtain your free admission ticket first from WDBJ7 WeatherFest.

 

Friday's Science Festival School Preview Day for nearly 1,300 area schoolchildren will continue as is.  

  

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  • Oct. 9, 5 - 9 p.m. | Discoveries Between Art + Science @ Taubman Museum of Art
  • Oct. 10, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Science Festival School Preview Day in Roanoke
  • Oct. 11, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Hokie Bug Fest
  • Oct. 11, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Roanoke Festival Day

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HAUNTED LAB: It's infectious!
October 24-25 | 6-10 PM

Ominous plagues, creepy pests ... even computer viruses! HAUNTED LAB at the Science Museum of Western Virginia is infectious this year!  

VIDEO: Haunted Lab 2013

Join downtown Roanoke's only family-friendly Halloween event featuring fun activities such as:

  • Contagious Costume Contest
  • Ominous experiments in the Evil Genius' Lab 
  • "Avoid It Like The Plague" obstacle course
  • Nontoxic Snacks and Risk-free Punch
  • Gruesome glowing creatures and more!
  • Pandora's Box of Prizes
  • And of course, the Haunted House

 

  

Advance Tickets: $7.50/Members, $14/Non-members

Tickets after 10/18/14: $10/Members, $18/Non-members

Pre-purchase discounted raffle tix for "Pandora's Box of Prizes" and get 2 tix for the price of 1 (10 tix for $5, 20 for $10, etc.). Pandora's Box is filled with more than a dozen prizes valued at more than $250.

Thanks to our sponsors: Roanoke Natural Foods Coop, Benny Marconi's, Bayou Snowballs, Growing Up in the Valley, Tech Squared and chocolatepaper.
Time Traveler Pi-Miler Race
November 2 @ 1:50 AM



(Just $25 thru Oct. 25)

Or be a $250 race sponsor and get your name/logo on the race t-shirt, website and promotional materials, plus two complimentary race registrations.
 
SEE VIDEO OF THE TIME TRAVELER ANNOUNCEMENT.

All proceeds benefit the Science Museum's educational programs.

We thank our friends at Exelis, Fleet Feet, WDBJ7, Roanoke City Parks & Recreation, Growing Up in the Valley, Firefly Fare, Carlin Aquarium Systems, Road ID, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, and Benny Marconi's - home of the biggest slice of pi, er, pie around! - for taking a quantum leap of faith and supporting this first-time race.
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