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2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Girls & Science)

Name: 2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Girls & Science)
Start: 2025-03-08T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-08T14:00:00-07:00
Location: CSU Spur

March 8 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Every 2nd Saturday of the month, visit CSU Spur for free, family-friendly fun presented by Canvas Credit Union. This 2nd Saturday, explore robot recyclers and environmental trivia at the Girls Inc. teen activation station, visit the CBS Colorado First Alert Weather Tracker, create your own forecast, make tree cookies with the Forest Service, and more. The first 200 children get a free Girls & Science STEM activity box!

March 2nd Saturday activities include:

Timed events:

10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Spur Music Lab: Colorado Youth Mariachi open rehearsal (Hydro 1st floor)
10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Spur Music Lab Guest Artist: Dream Create Inspire (DCI) Tour (Hydro 2nd floor)
10:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.: Equine Sports Medicine demonstration (Vida 2nd floor)
11:15-11:45 a.m.: Temple Grandin Equine Center presentation (TGEC arena)
12:15-12:45 p.m.: Temple Grandin Equine Center presentation (TGEC arena)
12:30-2 p.m.: Spur Music Lab Guest Artist: DCI Tour’s Dream Lab Workshop (Hydro 1st floor)
1:15-1:35 p.m.: Meet the Minis (Vida 2nd floor)

Ongoing programs (10 a.m.-2 p.m.):

Teen activation station with Girls Inc. of Metro Denver (Hydro lobby)
CSU Online activity booth (Hydro 1st floor)
CSU Pueblo Admissions info and swag table (Hydro 1st floor)
Canvas Credit Union activity table (Hydro 1st floor)
CBS First Alert Weather Tracker (Hydro 1st floor)
Nancy Richardson Design Center Makerspace activities (The Shop @ Hydro)
Spur Music Lab Workshops: Voice, drums, ukulele, guitar, piano, and making music with iPads (Hydro 2nd floor)
Interactive Stream Table (Hydro 2nd floor)
Kids’ Mock Lab (Hydro 3rd floor)
Tree cookies with the Colorado State Forest Service (Hydro 3rd floor)
Invertebrate-themed activities with the Butterfly Pavilion (Hydro 3rd floor)
Ardent Mills Teaching and Culinary Center: Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center (Terra 1st floor)
Denver Museum of Nature & Science resource table (Terra 1st floor)
North Denver Safer Streets information table (Terra 1st floor)
Lego activities with BrickSlopes (Terra 1st floor)
Mayor’s Office of the National Western Center activity table (Terra 3rd floor)
Kids’ Mock Kitchen (Terra 3rd floor)
Cam’s Ag Academy activities (Terra 3rd floor)
Insect and plant arts and crafts with Denver Extension (Terra 4th floor)
Humane Colorado surgeries (Vida 1st and 2nd floors)
Virtual reality for ages 9+ (Vida 1st floor)
Kid’s mock vet clinic (Vida 1st floor)
Pick up a FREE Girls & Science STEM activity box from Girls Inc. of Metro Denver (first 200 children) (Vida 1st floor)
Create a weather forecast with CBS Meteorology (Vida 1st floor)
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies activity table (Vida 1st floor)
Brain injury awareness activities with the Translational Neurological Lab (Vida 2nd floor)
Family Resilience Center resource table (Vida 2nd floor)
Temple Grandin Equine Center information table (Vida 2nd floor)
Humane Colorado and Metro Cat activity table (Vida 2nd floor)

Plus, enjoy food, coffee, and drinks available for purchase from Western Daughters.

*All activities subject to change or cancellation.

Details

Date: March 8
Time:
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Series:

2nd Saturday at CSU Spur

Organizer

CSU Spur
Phone 303-534-6290
Email csusystemspur@colostate.edu
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Venue

CSU Spur
4817 National Western Drive
Denver, CO 80216 United States + Google Map
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KATHLEEN GALVIN

University Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University

Dr. Kathleen Galvin is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography and former Director of the Africa Center at Colorado State University. She is also an Advising Faculty member for the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, where she founded the Human-Environment Interactions specialization for graduate students interested in a robust academic background in social-ecological systems.

She has conducted interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research in the drylands of East Africa and East Asia. Galvin has worked with local communities on land-use change, biodiversity conservation, food security, and climate change impacts and adaptation. She uses social-ecological systems frameworks, simulation modeling, and geospatial tools to understand human-environment issues and interactions. Her current research examines local perceptions of climate change and environmental issues, and explores actions to achieve viable solutions in Kenya. Another project focuses on understanding the trade-offs of community-based conservation for people and the environment throughout Africa. She has just completed a NASA grant to understand household decisions, ecosystem change, and atmospheric water recycling in Kenya through modeling for water futures.

She has taken on transdisciplinary science, linking science with society to ensure that her work’s impact goes well beyond the academy. As a lead author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019), she was instrumental in linking the science of biodiversity and ecosystem services with diverse governance and knowledge systems worldwide.

She is a Fellow in the Society of Applied Anthropology, a past Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2012, she received the National Sustainability Science award from the Ecological Society of America for her team’s efforts to use their scholarship to collaborate with pastoral communities and policymakers in eastern Africa. In 2017, the College of Liberal Arts awarded her the John N. Stern Distinguished Professor Award, recognizing a career of outstanding research, teaching, and service achievement.

2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Girls & Science)

Details

Organizer

Venue

Hours

Location

CHRIS SHAFFNER

JAMES HENDERSON

EMMA TROLLER

PETER CULP

KATHLEEN GALVIN

CHRISTINA SOHN

BORIS NIKOLAEV

ELIZABETH BABCOCK

ALEX BUDAK

KAREN SCHLATTER

LINDSAY ROGERS

JARED ROMERO

JULIE DAVIES O’SHEA

GIGI KARMOUS-EDWARDS

MARA WALLER

TOM VILSACK

KATE WATKINS

TONY FRANK

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