{"id":9349,"date":"2012-10-27T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:02:28","slug":"looking-for-something-to-do-head-to-super-science-saturday-at-ncar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/education\/looking-for-something-to-do-head-to-super-science-saturday-at-ncar\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for something to do?  Head to Super Science Saturday at NCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder will host Super Science Saturday on October 25th.  \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ncar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ncar.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ncar-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder will host Super Science Saturday on October 27th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every year the folks up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncar.ucar.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a> (NCAR) in Boulder open their doors to the public for a big event dubbed Super Science Saturday.\u00a0 The event brings together the fun of Halloween with science education and is a great time for kids and adults.<\/p>\n<p>Presentations and static displays with plenty of hands on activities are available.\u00a0 They will even be launching weather balloons three times during event as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When: Saturday, October 27, 2012. \u00a010:00am to 4:00pm.<\/li>\n<li>Where: NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From this year&#8217;s announcement about the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New this year:\u00a0The debut of the new Weather Gallery Exhibit showcasing all aspects of weather including the basic ingredients of weather, how we observe and forecast weather, and unforgettable wild weather!<\/p>\n<p>Also, throughout the day, NCAR&#8217;s &#8220;Science Wizards&#8221; will explore science with live demonstrations and the Little Shop of Physics crew will present interactive hands-on activities! You can see a science magic show, view storm chaser equipment up close, and explore exciting science from several organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/spark.ucar.edu\/events\/super-science-saturday\" target=\"_blank\">You can learn more about the event here<\/a>\u00a0and view a <a href=\"http:\/\/spark.ucar.edu\/super-science-schedule\" target=\"_blank\">schedule of events here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video of some of the activities from year&#8217;s past:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W-5NEV1Z7qI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W-5NEV1Z7qI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the folks up at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder open their doors to the public for a big event dubbed Super Science Saturday.\u00a0 The event brings together the fun of Halloween with science education and is a great time for kids and adults. Presentations and static displays with plenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/education\/looking-for-something-to-do-head-to-super-science-saturday-at-ncar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking for something to do?  Head to Super Science Saturday at NCAR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[75,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}