SMALLab Summer Schedule (June 1-September 4)

In order to meet safety guidelines, guests will be required
to wear gloves (provided) while using SMALLab wands.  

In order to ensure we are meeting social distancing
guidelines, only one family will be allowed in SMALLab at a time for 20-minute
sessions. Reservations are required. To reserve your family’s spot, call
850-664-1261. 

SMALLab is an embodied learning environment where every
learner is up, moving, and collaborating. You’ll work together to solve
puzzles, create stories and character plots, learn about the world, paint
digital masterpieces, and so much more. Watch as our classroom becomes the
fraction, letter, molecule, paintbrush, or playing piece in hundreds of educational
activities, all aligning with Pre K-12 STEAM curriculum and Common Core
standards.

June 1 through September 4, stop by Monday, Wednesday, &
Friday at 10:30 a.m. to get an up-close encounter with a few of our critters!
**RESERVATIONS REQUIRED**

To reduce interactions between guests and staff, our normal
summer programming will look a little different this year.  Our Creature Features will be conducted
outside in our amphitheater; these presentations will only be visual in nature
to allow for social distancing between staff and guests. Thank you for your
understanding as we adjust to these new procedures.

In order to ensure we are meeting safety guidelines,
reservations are required for Creature Features. To reserve your spot, register
at http://ecscience.org or call 850-664-1261.

Due to the ongoing developments concerning COVID-19 and orders from our state government, please check with the event organization directly for updates on this event.

Join us this summer for engaging workshops every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 2 through July 28. 

We’ll explore a wide variety of topics with hands-on, interactive lessons that give kids the opportunity to spend their vacation on a science adventure! From playing with robots, to experiencing the excitement of SMALLab learning, and journeying through space, we’re having tons of fun this summer. Sign your kiddos up today! Camp time includes the lessons listed below, a half an hour of free play in the museum, and a 20-minute lunch break.

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Workshops are broken up into two age groups: ages 5-8 and ages 9-12. Each group will learn about the same topics at varying levels of difficulty depending on age range. Classes will take place next door to each other, but free time and lunch will be held together.

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Calendar of Events

June 2-, 2020 Robotics & Coding: Get your wheels turning while you learn to program and play with our robots.

June 9, 2020- Biology: Come alive while you learn about the science of life- from the smallest cells to the largest ecosystems.

June 16, 2020- Space & Technology: Blast off from Earth to explore the stars and planets that make up the final frontier, and discover the technology that helped us get there. 

June 23, 2020- CSI & Forensics: Test your detective skills by using the same crime-solving techniques that the professionals do.

June 30, 2020- Electricity & Circuits: Electricity powers our modern day society, but how does it work? Learn about the different types of energy and how we can utilize them for some of our most essential technologies.

July 7, 2020- Eco-Conservation: We only have one Earth, so let’s learn how to love and protect it through different types of sustainable efforts. 

July 14, 2020- Chemistry: Let’s get chemical and learn about the different elements that make up our universe and experiment to see what they are really capable of.

July 21, 2020- Human Body & Nutrition:  Do you know yourself as well as you think? Get a deeper understanding of what it means to be human as we learn about the body systems that are needed for life as we know it and how to take care of them. 

July 28, 2020- Civil Engineering & Building: Build up your knowledge while we use our hands to create and explore the inner workings of inventions all around us. 

We’re featuring stunning chemistry demonstrations Tuesdays
and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. See science in action June 2 through September 3!
**RESERVATIONS REQUIRED**

To reduce interactions between guests and staff, our normal
summer programming will look a little different this year.  Our Chem Demos will be conducted outside in
our amphitheater; these presentations will only be visual in nature to allow
for social distancing between staff and guests. Thank you for your
understanding as we adjust to these new procedures.

In order to ensure we are meeting safety guidelines,
reservations are required for Chem Demos. To reserve your spot, register at http://ecscience.org
or call 850-664-1261.

Our annual Small Business Technology Transfer and Small Business
Innovation Research (STTR/SBIR) event returns for a fourth year! This
event will feature loads of handy resources for small businesses,
industry, the Air Force, media, venture capitalists, and investors.

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we will host our annual SBIR/STTR
Seminar virtually this year. We’ll provide clarity and insight into the
SBIR/STTR process updates within the Air Force. The content will be
beneficial to small businesses, industry as a whole, and to those in the
Air Force interacting with the SBIR program.

To submit questions prior to the event, please email them to innovation@doolittleinstitute.org

Topics

1. Current SBIR/STTR updates and processes
2. Transitioning technology
3. Venture capital engagement
4. Pitch Day process
5. Finding a match for your technology
6. Contracting

Confirmed Speakers

1. David Shahady, Air Force SBIR/STTR, Program Director
2. Aneel Alvares, Lt Col, USAF, Defense Engagement Team at Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)
3. Stacy Swider, Director, SBIR Center of Excellence at UMass Lowell Research Institute
4. Christopher Benson, AFWERX, SBIR, STTR, AF Ventures
5. Rich Julien, Amazon Web Services, Public Sector Venture Capital and Startups
6. Angela Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP, patent, trademark, copyright, and technology law attorney

Please visit our website to register for this virtual event.

Learn
how to use basic coding to create images and understand data, discover
interactive space kits from the NISE network, and blast off to fun in
SMALLab.

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other satellites
on exploded stars, star-forming regions, and black holes, you’ll learn
basic coding…no previous experience needed! You will see just how
integral coding is in the pursuit of learning about our Universe. It’s
an example of the exciting ways that computer science is both part of
routine tasks in our every day lives and part of the exciting quest to
explore the cosmos. Experience real world application of science,
technology and even art!

We’ll continue to explore the universe with our brand new Earth &
Space kits from the National Informal Stem Education (NISE) Network
with a plethora of activities to inspire all the future astronauts and
scientists in your family. End the day playing in space during our
SMALLab session from 12-1 p.m. All activities appropriate for a wide
range of ages.

Access to all activities included with General Admission pricing

$10 adults/$8 seniors/$8 children/ages 2 and under are FREE

Military discounts available

This event supported by NASA’s Universe of Learning, in partnership with Smithsonian Affiliations. 

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Due to the ongoing developments concerning COVID-19 and orders from our state government, please check with the event organization directly for updates on this event.

Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort provides regular updates on how the changing environment surrounding COVID-19 is affecting its initiatives. To stay up to date, click here to visit their news page.

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Taking place in one of the most productive fisheries in the United States, timed to coincide with the peak of the Gulf Coast’s blue marlin season and located at the South’s No. 1-ranked resort destination, the Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic at Sandestin® (ECBC) has set the precedent for world-class sport fishing tournaments. For the angling teams, there are the deep blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, red-hot billfish action and cool green cash. For more information, including how to register for the tournament, visit FishECBC.com.

More on the Tournament

While onshore, both tournament participants and their families can enjoy the wide variety of recreational activities offered at the Sandestin® Golf and Beach Resort and The Village of Baytowne Wharf. The spectacular night time weigh-ins, held at the Baytowne Marina at Sandestin®, are free and open to the public.

Named as one of the top ten big-money tournaments in the world by Marlin magazine, the ECBC’s cash awards surpass $2 million – and with over 27 optional entry levels, there are plenty of ways to win a piece of the pie.

The ECBC is a “modified-release” tournament and led the Gulf Coast tournament circuit in setting a high minimum length for blue marlin, which are the only billfish that may be weighed. Release points are awarded for blue marlin, white marlin, sailfish and spearfish. The three heaviest weighed blue marlin, dolphin, tuna and wahoo are eligible for cash awards, as are the top three teams entered in the Release Division, and the top three Crews entered in the Crew Division. Awards are presented to the top overall, release, lady and junior anglers, and the top overall release team has its name engraved on the Magnificent Blue Perpetual Trophy, donated by Galati Yacht Sales and Viking Yachts, sculpted by Chris Barela and on permanent display at the Marina Bar & Grill.