CHANGING LIVES AND INSPIRING LEARNING THROUGH SCIENCE AND WONDER.
The North Carolina Science Festival is the first statewide science festival in the United States. The annual month-long celebration of science brings together hundreds of community events across North Carolina each year in April. Â The Festival presents a unique opportunity for North Carolinians of all ages to celebrate and engage with science. NCScifest is presented by the RTI International and produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For more information, visit www.ncsciencefestival.org.
Investigate the matter that makes up our world - and universe! Explore solids, liquids, and gases through hands-on stations throughout the science center - including non-Newtonian fluids. Watch planetarium shows that explain the stuff of our world!*
Take part in a conversation with Mx. Elise O. Weaver MS, Appalachian State University's Director of Undergraduate Astronomy Labs, about dark matter (and why research into this unknown matters to us all)!#
Special activities are included with science center admission.
Questions? Contact the Programs Director at programs@catawbascience.org  or (828) 322.8169 x. 305
This place was great. We have kids from 8 to 1 and they all had a great time. What I really liked is most of the exhibits are hands on and that really kept them occupied.
Took the kiddos and they loved it. Employees were nice and helpful. If your looking for something to do with the kids give this place a shot.
Fabulous and I don’t often give praise. We took our grandson and were there for hours. He loved it and so did we.
We love the Science Center! I take my 2 and 4 year old boys weekly to play and enjoy the exhibits. The staff are wonderful and the classes offered are excellent! We are so blessed to have such an amazing resource in our area.
What a wonderful place to visit! Great environment to learn and the staff is very helpful! Hickory is lucky to have great family education and entertainment.
