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Walk to the Moon Challenge

NE SciFest is challenging everyone in Nebraska to show their love of science by participating in a 30-day exercise challenge that will collectively take us to the moon. The challenge […]

Free

NE SciFest Essay Contest

The NE SciFest Essay Contest is back again. This year we want you to write an essay answering the question below and be entered to win a NE SciFest swag […]

Free

NE SciFest Social Media Trivia

Science is all around us so let's have some virtual fun! Running every day through the festival we’re bringing back our NE SciFest Social Media Science Trivia. Everyday we will […]

Free

NE SciFest Scavenger Hunt

Let's go outside and hunt for science! Download the scavenger hunt (below) and go out and search for science. Ten quests await you - no matter where you live in […]

Free

NE SciFest Art Contest

Back for a fourth year is the NE SciFest Art Contest. Using our keynote speakers’ background in animal behavior as inspiration, create artwork that reflects your favorite animal. Three winners […]

Free

NE SciFest Ice Cream

eCreamery Ice Cream & Gelato 5001 Underwood Ave, Omaha

Available all April long, our new NE SciFest signature ice cream flavor from eCreamery: ANIMAL HOUSE. Animal House: Cake Mix Ice Cream, Frosted Animal Cookies and Cookie Dough. For the entire […]

Event Series BRICKLIVE Brickosaurs

BRICKLIVE Brickosaurs

Lauritzen Gardens 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha

On display for the first time in the United States, experience BRICKLIVE Brickosaurs, an adventure of Jurassic scale at Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens. Marvel at 30 iconic dinosaur sculptures made from […]

$9 – $15
Event Series Mudpies

Mudpies

Fontenelle Forest 1111 Bellevue Blvd. N., Bellevue

Looking for a unique setting in which to have fun with your child while learning about the natural world? Mudpies is a structured program for children ages 3-5,  at Fontenelle […]

$8

Omaha Science Cafe – “The Brain That Heals Itself”

Slowdown 729 N 14th St., Omaha

Join Max Kurz, Ph.D., scientist in the Institute for Human Neuroscience and Director of the Physiology of Walking & Engineering Rehabilitation (PoWER) Laboratory at the Boys Town Institute for Human […]

FLIP Fabrique: Blizzard

Orpheum Theater 409 S 16th St., Omaha

With Blizzard, FLIP Fabrique takes you on a crazy, poetic and gentle journey in the dead of winter, and invites you to lose yourself in a moment of complete wonder. […]

$25 – $40