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Girls’ Science Adventures offers a series of Saturday workshops where participants do hands-on science activities such as experimenting with real electrophysiological signals, exploring the brain, and learning how the heart pumps blood and spreads oxygen and nutrients. The program also includes a hands-on ecology session working in greenhouses and interactive learning spaces, observing plant life cycles up close, and planting and caring for seeds. Additional workshops involve exploring the universe in Eugene Science Center’s planetarium with hands-on activities about space phenomena, observing and investigating insects while examining their anatomy, life cycles, and behaviors, and exploring shapes, puzzles, and patterns in mathematics.
• Ages: 9–12 years old
• Schedule: Six Saturday workshops from 9:00am–12:00pm
Girls’ Science Adventures runs six workshops on Saturdays in 2026: Navigating Neuroscience on February 7, Lab of Hearts on February 14, Botany Brainiacs on February 21, Universe Unlocked on February 28, Insect Investigators on March 7, and Mathematical Masters on March 14. Enrollment is limited to 20 spaces in each workshop. After registration, families are directed to check their confirmation letter for pick up and drop off details.
Girls’ Science Adventures is run in partnership with the University of Oregon Women in Graduate Sciences, and girls explore hands-on science with expert role models from this group and other female mentors. 2026 registrations are sponsored by the Jane Higdon Memorial Fund. Eugene Science Center, which offers this program, was founded in 1961 as the southwest branch of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, became an independent 501(c)(3) corporation in 1977 under the name Willamette Science & Technology Center, opened in its current location in January 1980, adopted the name “Science Factory” in 2002, and changed its name to Eugene Science Center in 2018. The organization states its mission as “To inspire scientific curiosity and foster critical thinking about the universe and our place in it” and describes itself as Lane County’s only hands-on science museum and planetarium that provides interactive exhibits, planetarium shows and presentations, school and public programs, science camps, and special events, primarily serving children ages 0 to 14 along with their families, teachers, and guardians. The center notes that its primary color is YInMn Blue, a pigment discovered in 2009 by Mas Subramanian at Oregon State University, with orange and green as complementary pigments based on the chemistry of YInMn Blue, and that its icon is a creative twist on the Fibonacci sequence.
Last updated December 28, 2025.
• Ages: 9–12 years old
• Schedule: Six Saturday workshops from 9:00am–12:00pm
Girls’ Science Adventures runs six workshops on Saturdays in 2026: Navigating Neuroscience on February 7, Lab of Hearts on February 14, Botany Brainiacs on February 21, Universe Unlocked on February 28, Insect Investigators on March 7, and Mathematical Masters on March 14. Enrollment is limited to 20 spaces in each workshop. After registration, families are directed to check their confirmation letter for pick up and drop off details.
Girls’ Science Adventures is run in partnership with the University of Oregon Women in Graduate Sciences, and girls explore hands-on science with expert role models from this group and other female mentors. 2026 registrations are sponsored by the Jane Higdon Memorial Fund. Eugene Science Center, which offers this program, was founded in 1961 as the southwest branch of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, became an independent 501(c)(3) corporation in 1977 under the name Willamette Science & Technology Center, opened in its current location in January 1980, adopted the name “Science Factory” in 2002, and changed its name to Eugene Science Center in 2018. The organization states its mission as “To inspire scientific curiosity and foster critical thinking about the universe and our place in it” and describes itself as Lane County’s only hands-on science museum and planetarium that provides interactive exhibits, planetarium shows and presentations, school and public programs, science camps, and special events, primarily serving children ages 0 to 14 along with their families, teachers, and guardians. The center notes that its primary color is YInMn Blue, a pigment discovered in 2009 by Mas Subramanian at Oregon State University, with orange and green as complementary pigments based on the chemistry of YInMn Blue, and that its icon is a creative twist on the Fibonacci sequence.
Last updated December 28, 2025.
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