EcoExpedition June
Celebrate World Environment Day all week long exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
Tuesday – Saturday | 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Fairytale STEAM
April 2-6: Beanstalk Growing
April 9-13: Rapunzel Hair Weights
April 16-20: Dragon Fire
April 23-27: Little Red Basket Weaving
April 30-May 4: Frog Prince Origami
Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May 5- 11: Extremophile Search - Celebrate Filipino-American microbiologist Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann and the search for extremophiles.
May 12-18: Mr. Tornado - Explore Tornadoes and the F-Scale named after Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, also known as "Mr. Tornado."
May 19-25: Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions - Learn about Star Navigation and Nainoa Thompson, the first Hawaiian in over 500 years to practice open-ocean navigation without instruments.
May 26-31: Otter Art - Create your own Otter Algae Craft and learn about Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, a pioneering Hawaiian scientist who discovered over 200 algae species.
Programs are subject to change.
Wednesdays & Fridays | 3 p.m.
Join Discovery Center staff for a turtle feeding! Included with admission. Programs are subject to change.
Thursdays | 11 a.m. & 3 p.m.
Join Discovery Center staff for story time in our Great Outdoors! Included with admission. Programs are subject to change.
Celebrate World Environment Day all week long exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
Celebrate World Environment Day all week long exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
A Campology session fit for an Olympian with STEAM activities inspired by favorite Olympic events!
Venture into a SPARK! Campology session that is out-of-this-world!
A Campology day fit for an Olympian with STEAM activities inspired by favorite Olympic events!
Celebrate World Environment Day on this one day camp exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
Celebrate World Environment Day all week long exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
Celebrate World Environment Day all week long exploring the Murfree Spring wetlands!
A Campology session fit for an Olympian with STEAM activities inspired by favorite Olympic events!
Venture into a SPARK! Campology session that is out-of-this-world!
Even though Tennessee will only have a partial solar eclipse, Discovery Center will have a full day of fun with special Solar Eclipse STEAM activities!
Ahoy, mateys! It’s time to sail into Spring Break Campology!
Take a look into the diverse history of our nation’s innovation during our February School’s Out Play Day!
Join us for activities using some fun technology like VEX robotics, Osmo Learning Games, and squishy circuits.
Join us for the week or even just a day of kitchen chemistry, edible experiments, and more inside our updated FRANKE Kitchen.
Sign up for a Campology session where campers use their STEAM skills to explore Snowy Mountains, go deep into the jungle, or even visit the Jurassic Period. These Thanksgiving Break camps are ready to roll into wilderness adventures!
This Fall Break Camp, sign your child up for a week where they are the heroes through STEAM activities inspired by first responders and everyday helpers.
STEAM is science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. Wonder what side of STEAM your camper would enjoy most as a first Discovery Center camp? Sign your PreK camper up for a week of science experiments, animal meet-and-greets, wetland exploration, coding and math games, and even making their own music! 2023 SPARK Campology is the perfect sampler to what your future summers may hold!
Channel your inner Rockstar and get ready to make some music with the Discovery Center! This Campology session will have your camper jamming as we learn about different instruments, create our own, and explore the Science of Music exhibit.
We’re bringing your camper’s favorite apps into reality in this Campology session! Join the Discovery Center for a week of activities inspired by Minecraft® and ROBLOX® like avatar costume creation, pixel art, and cube engineering.
Take a walk on the wild side of the wetlands with Discovery Center Campology. This session will bring campers into the habitat with identification lessons, creek exploration, and meet-and-greets with our Discovery Center Animal Ambassadors.
Put on your lab coat and get ready to experiment! This Summer Campology session will have your camper exploring pops, bounces, and messes with hands-on science experiments.
Channel your inner Rockstar and get ready to make some music with the Discovery Center! This Campology session will have your camper jamming as we learn about different instruments, create our own, and explore the Science of Music exhibit.
We’re bringing your camper’s favorite apps into reality in this Campology session! Join the Discovery Center for a week of activities inspired by Minecraft® and ROBLOX® like avatar costume creation, pixel art, and cube engineering.
Take a walk on the wild side of the wetlands with Discovery Center Campology. This session will bring campers into the habitat with identification lessons, creek exploration, and meet-and-greets with our Discovery Center Animal Ambassadors.
Put on your lab coat and get ready to experiment! This Summer Campology session will have your camper exploring pops, bounces, and messes with hands-on science experiments.
Put on your thinking cap and start cranking out your best ideas, this spring the Discovery Center is turning our campers into inventors. Sign your camper up for this week full of drawing, building models, and guided exhibit exploration of our latest traveling exhibit.
“ Click ” into our next Campology School’s Out Play Day which will have your camper using KNEX in new ways and expressing their ideas. Campers will get the opportunity to build structures, race cars, and much more.
Can we build a fun camp around learning how to fix household things? You bet we can! Join Campology for a week of fixer upper activities that introduce tools, how to use them, and other fun Makerspace projects.
Come get lost in our orbit of fun activities as Discovery Center Campology launches into a camp week all about the moon. Campers will get the chance to explore the new STARlab, learn about the phases of the moon, and more.
Come build and program with Campology and our robotic friend, VEX. Campers will work as a team to build a robot, learn the commands, and code VEX using block-language.
This Fall Break Camp, we are focusing on the “A” in STEAM! Join Campology for a week Falling for Art and the science and engineering that go-along with different techniques, mediums, and more!
Everyone loves the classic kids’ board games! Why not STEAM up those games with Discovery Center’s Campology? Take your turn at figuring out the perfect spin on a game spinner or discover the lowest number of turns it takes to travel the whole game board. Activities in this camp will include game design, learning art techniques, and tinkering to see how different board games are built.
Where can you find chinchillas in the wild? What type of forest can you find box turtles in? What animals can you see in the urban wetlands during the summer? Our Discovery Center animal residents are ready to help your campers find the answers to all these questions and more in our At Home in the Habitat Campology sessions!
With the world so full of technology, it’s important to know how it’s made. Join the Discovery Center for a Campology full of simple machines, robots, 3D design, and engineering your very own gadget or gizmo!
Doing science experiments, building with new materials, trying an idea that may not work, working together, and making art are all ways to be a kid in STEAM. Sign your child up for our half-day SPARK Campology and they are sure to have a great time expressing their inner scientist, engineer, and artist with activities inspired by the Questioneers books by Andrea Beaty and Netflix original Ada Twist: Scientist.
“Dude, that was perfect!” is what your camper will be saying in Campology’s Lots of Trick Shots camp. This camp will feature sports challenges, physics lessons, engineering builds, and more!
Everyone loves the classic kids’ board games! Why not STEAM up those games with Discovery Center’s Campology? Take your turn at figuring out the perfect spin on a game spinner or discover the lowest number of turns it takes to travel the whole game board. Activities in this camp will include game design, learning art techniques, and tinkering to see how different board games are built.
Where can you find chinchillas in the wild? What type of forest can you find box turtles in? What animals can you see in the urban wetlands during the summer? Our Discovery Center animal residents are ready to help your campers find the answers to all these questions and more in our At Home in the Habitat Campology sessions!
Doing science experiments, building with new materials, trying an idea that may not work, working together, and making art are all ways to be a kid in STEAM. Sign your child up for our half-day SPARK Campology and they are sure to have a great time expressing their inner scientist, engineer, and artist with activities inspired by the Questioneers books by Andrea Beaty and Netflix original Ada Twist: Scientist.