Spring Break

Monday, Mar. 9 – Thursday, Mar. 12; 

12 – 4 pm

Celebrate Spring Break week at Discovery Green with plenty of fun, educational S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) activities and cultural performances. Discovery Green puts the fun back into a FUNomenal week of entertainment and education.

Community partners include Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation, Books Between Kids, Breakthrough Houston, Boy Scouts of Sam Houston, Collaborative for Children, Compudopt, Core Lab, Dale Carnegie Foundation, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Switch Energy Alliance, Writers in the Schools, Nameless Sound, Lee’s Golden Dragon, and Batala Houston.

FULL SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES: 

MONDAY

1 – 1:30 pm: Batalá Houston Brazilian drums & dance

1:30 – 2 pm: Capoeira Demonstrations of martial arts, dance, and acrobatics

2 – 3 pm: Birds of Prey – a demonstration of live predator birds

TUESDAY

3 – 4 pm: Lee’s Golden Dragons – a lion dance in the Southern Chinese tradition

MONDAY – THURSDAY

1 – 2 pm: Houston Museum of Natural Science – Science on Stage

1 – 2 pm: Writers In the Schools writing workshop in the Literacy Lounge

2 – 3 pm: Nameless Sound – A transformative improvisation music workshop on the stage

2 – 3 pm: Mad About Hoops: a hula-hoop movement class on the Jones Lawn

12 – 4 pm: The Literacy Lounge: Barbara Bush Houston LiteracyFoundation and Books BetweenKids

GOLDEN TICKET ACTIVITIES

Monday – Thursday, 12 – 3 pm

Stop by the EOG Resources Tent when you arrive for the chance to earn fun giveaways.

• Collab Lab + Robots
• Boy Scouts Sam Houston Council
• Compudopt
• EOG Resources
• Dale Carnegie Exploring Energy
• Switch Energy Alliance

Descriptions: 

Dale Carnegie Exploring Energy: Think you have what it takes to be a geologist? Come help us find the mineral deposits or see how quickly you can match up rocks and minerals. When you’re done, pick out and paint your own kindness rocks.

Compudopt: Join the Steam Team and explore augmented reality or learn basic coding.

Switch Energy: Build and test play-doh electric circuits to understand how electricity flows. Then build your own windmill using recycled materials!

EOG IoT Demo: It takes many different engineering disciplines to get oil and gas out of the ground. Come enjoy a small water injection demonstration that will teach how all parts of engineering – from subsurface to fluid dynamics to mechanical engineering – work with the IoT and software to bring oil and gas to you.

Core Labs: Come by and learn about the earth’s porosity and see if you have what it takes to complete a rock matching game.

Boy Scouts – Sam Houston Area Council: Ever wonder how rockets work? Or how a butterfly glides through the air? Or maybe how a caterpillar makes its way across the ground? Come by and learn about these STEM principles through activities like a balloon rocket or make your own flying butterfly or moving caterpillar!

Breakthrough Houston: Come learn how you can actually grow seeds in a plastic bag, then stay a while and make your own dinosaur to bring home.

EOG Resources: After you’ve checked out all the activities at this year’s Discovery Green FUNomenal Spring Break camp, come back to the EOG tent to claim your prize!