Family and Youth Programs

This year The Tech Museum has worked closely with Girl Scouts of Northern California to be one of the last venues to offer the Math Whiz and Making it Matter badge programs. These are official badge programs taken from the Girl Scout Badge Program Handbook. Any Girl Scout that participates in these programs at the museum will receive the official Girl Scout badge. Each badge program fulfills six requirements as specified by the Girl Scout council.


Girl Scout 2011-2012 Programs

Programs designed just for Girl Scout Troops to earn a badge or to visit The Tech Museum with their troop. Programs require registration and payment.

Call 408-294-8324, option 3 to register.

Girl Scout Family Days

Visit with your troop and invite your family and friends along.

Who: Girls in Scouting programs and their family and friends
When: Any public operating day during regular operating hours.
Cost: Best Value: Only $10 per person for a combined admission including regular gallery admission and educational IMAX. Not enough time to do both? Only $7.00 per person for regular gallery admission; or only $5:00 per person for admission to educational IMAX only.
Patch: Not included

Please Note: Requirement of one adult chaperon for every 8 children with paid admission (Free adult chaperon ticket provided).

Badges - It's all about the badge!

Perfect for girls in grades 4-5 (unless otherwise noted).

Work on your Math Whiz Badge or Making it Matter Badge.

Each program runs 2 hours in length with a 10 minimum and 25 maximum participants. The Tech Museum will have to cancel any program that does not have the minimum participants registered two weeks prior to the event. Participants must make payment for program at the time of registration.

Making It Matter Badge program cost $20 charge per scout.
Math Whiz badge program cost is $15 per scout.

Math Whiz Badge

Count, predict, create and solve math puzzlers then explore our galleries on a Math Hunt to earn your Math Whiz badge.

Making it Matter Badge

Practice being an engineer to earn this badge. Explore the science behind electricity, chemistry, materials and structures with our staff of scientists.

Saturday, February 4, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Math Whiz

Monday, March 12, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Making It Matter

Thursday, April 12, 2012
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Math Whiz

Saturday, May 12, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Math Whiz
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Making It Matter

Saturday, June 2, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Making It Matter
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Making It Matter

Sleepover @ The Tech Museum - CANCELLED

Become a Wacky Scientist at The Tech Museum for a night! Discover Science in a whole new light. Earn The Tech Museum patch and sleep amidst museum's most popular exhibits.

Who: Girls Grades 3-6
When: Saturday, February 4, 2012 - Sunday, February 5, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012-Sunday, June 3, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Cost: $55 per girl/$25 per adult
Patch: Patch Included
Capacity: 150 min/200 max

Please Note: One adult chaperone is required for every 5 girls. Fee includes breakfast, The Tech Museum Patch, activities, and IMAX movie. Parking is an additional charge.



MathWorks
Free bilingual classes in English and Spanish for families. Through engaging math activities, parents learn to reinforce mathematical skills students need to succeed in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning. Families get their hands on math, while having fun and developing logical thinking, spatial reasoning, creative problem solving, and number sense together.

Participants leverage the engineering design process, as they brainstorm, collaborate, design, and build their way to creative solutions. Design challenges allow students to get an intuitive sense of mathematics, practice creative strategies for solving problems, and develop the innovative thinking skills they'll need to solve math problems and prepare for career success in the 21st century. Meets California Mathematics Content Standards.

Principal Sponsor: Microsoft

Learning Programs
Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Each MathWorks session is 6 weeks of Saturday classes.

Sessions are offered on:
Session One: September 10, 2011 to October 15, 2011
Session Two: October 22, 2011 to December 3, 2011 (No class on Thanksgiving weekend)
Session Three: January 7, 2012 to February 11, 2012
Session Four: February 18, 2012 to March 24, 2012
Session Five: April 14, 2012 to May 19, 2012.

Cost
For more information or to register please call Group Reservations at (408) 795-6330.

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Programas de Aprendizaje 2011-2012 MathWorks
Grados K a 5

 ˇConvierta las matemáticas en algo divertido!
Clases gratis y bilingües en inglés y español para familias. A través de actividades atractivas, los padres aprenden a reforzar las habilidades de matemáticas que los estudiantes necesitan para triunfar en el aprendizaje de la ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería, arte y matemáticas (STEAM, por sus siglas en inglés). Las familias entran en estrecho contacto con las matemáticas, mientras se divierten juntos y desarrollan destrezas en el pensamiento lógico, la solución creativa de problemas, el razonamiento espacial y el sentido de los números.

Los participantes hacen uso del proceso de diseño de ingeniería, generando ideas, colaborando, diseñando y construyendo su camino a soluciones creativas. Estos desafíos de diseño les permiten a los estudiantes obtener un sentido intuitivo de las matemáticas, practicar con estrategias creativas para resolver problemas, y desarrollar el pensamiento innovador que necesitarán para resolver problemas de matemáticas y prepararse para el éxito profesional en el siglo 21. Cumple con los estándares de matemáticas de California (California Mathematics Content Standards).

Patrocinador principal: Microsoft

Programas de aprendizaje
Los sábados de las 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. o 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
La duración de cada curso de MathWorks es de 6 semanas con clases cada sábado.
10 de septiembre - 15 de octubre
22 de octubre - 3 de diciembre
No hay clase el fin de semana del Día de Acción de Gracias
7 de enero - 11 de febrero
18 de febrero - 24 de marzo
14 de abril -19 de mayo

Costo
Gratis. Se sirven refrigerios.

Para más información o para inscribirse por favor llame al (408) 795-6330.

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The Tech Summer Camps
The Tech Summer Camps is the ultimate summer camp for aspiring young scientists, engineers and inventors! Brought to you by the creators of Galileo Learning, The Tech Summer Camps provide kids entering grades 4 - 8 with an ideal mix of learning and fun.

Registration is open now - check it out!