Nebraska Science Festival

Meet a Meteorologist
2023-04-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Site-1 Brewing, 2566 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE, 68131, United States
Grab a beer and get your questions ready for our “Meet a Meteorologist” event with KETV NewsWatch 7’s very own Caitlin Harvey.
Caitlin will be at Site-1 Brewing (Farnam location) on April 25 at 7pm to talk about her education, work and all things weather at this free event. After Caitlin’s talk, you will have the chance to have all your weather and meteorology questions answered by the expert.
Caitlin Harvey is a Meteorologist with KETV NewsWatch 7 in Omaha. Growing up just outside of Kansas City, Missouri, Caitlin is no stranger to severe weather and dramatic temperature changes. Her earliest weather memory came at the age of 4, when a tornado warning forced her family outside into the storm cellar. Though no damage came from the warning, that memory sparked a fascination and passion for weather and to learn what caused such severe weather.
Caitlin attended the University of Missouri in Columbia and earned a degree in Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences – with an emphasis in Atmospheric Science, in 2016. Caitlin interned with NBC affiliate KOMU and went on to work at KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri and KDRV in Medford, Oregon.
Outside of work, Caitlin is part of a proud “geek” family. She is happily married to her husband, Skip, a comic book creator and artist, and a proud pet parent to Starbuck, Maeby, Gerbie, and Noodle. She enjoys swimming, water skiing, sailing, cosplay and karaoke.
This event is all ages, and FREE, though a ticket is required due to space capacity. Reserve your tickets here.

Become A Storm Spotter
2024-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Thompson Alumni Center, 6705 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68182, United States
Presented by the National Weather Service and hosted by the Emergency Management Departments from UNO, UNMC, Douglas County, and Sarpy County, this Storm Spotter training will show you how to identify hazardous weather as it approaches, either by looking at the sky or at weather radar.
Open to the general public.

FLIP Fabrique: Blizzard
2024-04-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Orpheum Theater, 409 S 16th St., Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
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. With performers at the peak of their art and outstanding visual poetry, Blizzard promises to blow away everything in its path.
What if winter has taken over?
Not just outside, in the streets and in the fields,
But also in the houses, in the bedrooms
Underneath our clothes, and even right into our hearts. Everything, absolutely everything, buried under the snow, Obliterated by a white-out.
The north wind freezes time as it flows over us.
Would it be a catastrophe?
Or a chance to start over,
To fix our mistakes?
A new blank page
In the shape of a blizzard.
About the preshow Curtain Warmer
Ticketholders are invited to join us at 6:10 PM in the Orpheum Theater lobby for a preshow activity. The Luminarium will be bringing science and all things STEM to complement the thrilling acrobatics of Flip Fabrique.

HABITAT HIKE
2024-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Fontenelle Forest, 1111 Bellevue Blvd. N., Bellevue, NE, 68005, United States
Explore Nebraska’s prairies, wetlands and forests at Fontenelle Forest’s Habitat Hikes! Join our naturalist educators on a guided hike through these different habitats and learn about each of these unique ecosystems!
The April Hike will be held on April 27 at the Nature Center.
The guided hike will be from 2:00-4:00 PM, traversing easy to moderate terrain.

Science Sunday
2025-04-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Omaha RiverFront, 1001 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Join the Nebraska Science Festival for Science Sunday from 1-2pm in April at the Omaha RiverFront, next to the slides. This is a free family friendly hour for you to learn about nature, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and more with hands-on science activities (while supplies last).
Science Sunday Activities:

April 6 – Tin Foil Watercolor Eggs

April 13 – Seed Bombs

April 27 – Make your own Constellation *we will be down by the Kiewit Luminarium at The RiverFront for ‘Earth Day at The RiverFront’ on this Sunday

Seward Storm Spotter Training Session & Preparedness Fair
2026-04-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Seward County Ag Pavilion, 430 N 15th St., Seward, NE, 68434, United States
National Weather Service meteorologists, in collaboration with local emergency management officials, will offer several in-person severe storm spotter training courses in the spring of 2026 to build your skills in spotting and reporting severe weather! These training sessions are free and open to the public, and all ages are welcome (but age 10 and up will probably get the most out of it)! These sessions will bring a greater understanding of severe storm features, safety around severe storms, how to report important weather information, and will do it all through an exciting combination of videos, photos, and discussion!
Preparedness fair runs from 10 AM to 2 PM. Storm spotter training will take place at 1 PM.
Pre-registration is NOT required for the live in-person sessions.

Nerd Nite Omaha
2026-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Saro Cider Lounge, 1012 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
Nerd Nite is grounded in this super nerdy, highly engaging, fun approach to learning. We’re looking forward to more engagement, learning, and connection over the topics our speakers nerd out about!

Join us! Be there and be square.

There are two awesome talks lined up for the April event:

-Presentation #1: War! Huh! What is it good for? ADVANCING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY by Emily Speck
-Presentation #2: Successful Rain Gardens by Rocky Keehn

2026 Maiben Lecture
2026-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 | UNL East Campus Union, 1705 Arbor Drive, Lincoln, NE, 68503, United States
For 136 years, the Nebraska Academy of Sciences has hosted an annual meeting designed to bring the scientific community across the state together to ‘share their science’.
In conjunction with the meeting, Dr. Deborah Bathke, a research associate professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, climate scientist, and Nebraska’s state climatologist, will deliver the annual Maiben Lecture titled, “Shifting Extremes: Understanding Nebraska’s Changing Climate and Preparing for What Lies Ahead,” at 4 p.m.
The lecture free and open to the public.
