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Scouting Overnights and Badge Programs at Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium
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Bugs | Overnight
Date: April 11, 2026 - April 12, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Brownie
Capacity: 25
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Blue Lab
Are you ready to explore the wiggly, squiggly, crawling world of insects? Create a bug box, look at different types of bug homes, use magnifying glasses to look at our bugs and use their imagination to build a bug of their own to take home.
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Trees | Overnight
Date: April 11, 2026 - April 12, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Cadette
Capacity: 25
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Green Lab
Become a naturalist and get to the root of what trees are all about. Design a tree house, sketch your favorite tree and learn what kinds of plants or animals use your tree, create tree art, and learn about the logging industry in Michigan.
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Flowers | Overnight
Date: April 11, 2026 - April 12, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Junior
Capacity: 25
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Orange Lab
Explore the wonderful world of flowers by planting a seed or bulb, experiment with a flower’s root system, make floral bath beads, create flower art, and design a beautiful bouquet.
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Space Science Adventurer | Overnight
Date: May 2 - May 3, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Brownie
Capacity: 40
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Whether you’ve searched for shooting stars or found shapes in the clouds, you’ve probably already spent some time looking at the sky. Now’s your chance to see the sky in a new way—like a space scientist does!
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Space Science Investigator | Overnight
Date: May 2 - May 3, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Junior
Capacity: 40
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Learn about scale models of our solar system and about the Earth’s cycle around the Sun. Discover the beauty of the night sky and create a model constellation. Use your knowledge to create a model Mars Rover. Create a mural of what you learned to share with younger scouts.
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Girl Scout Fun Night
Date: May 30 - May 31, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: Daisy, Brownie, Junior
Capacity: 100
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Join the Education team for a night of fun as you explore the museum after hours! Spend the night in one of the museum galleries, enjoy a movie, games, activities, and more!
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Space Science Explorer
Date: April 25, 2026
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Age Group: Daisy
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium | MARS Room
Space scientists are people who study outer space—what’s in the sky. In this badge, you can be a space scientist as you look at the sky and talk about what you see!
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Space Science Adventurer
Date: April 25, 2026
Time: 9 a.m. -12 p.m.
Age Group: Brownie
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium | Jupiter Room
Whether you’ve searched for shooting stars or found shapes in the clouds, you’ve probably already spent some time looking at the sky. Now’s your chance to see the sky in a new way—like a space scientist does!
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Cub Scout Fun Night
Date: May 16, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 a.m.
Age Group: All Scout Levels
Capacity: 100
Cost: $32 Scouts | $16 Adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Join the Education team for a night of fun as you explore the museum after hours! Spend the night one of the museum galleries, enjoy a movie, games, activities & more!
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Count On Me
Date: April 18, 2026
Time: 1 - 3 p.m.
Age Group: Lion
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Blue Lab
Triangles, Circles, and Squares Oh My! Explore shapes, colors, and numbers while creating a Lion masterpiece. Work together as you play fun shape and money games.
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Good Knights
Date: April 18, 2026
Time: 1 - 3 p.m.
Age Group: Tiger
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Green Lab
Travel back in time to learn all about knights who lived many years ago, and find out what knights and Scouts have in common. Tiger Cubs will create their own shield, build a small castle out of recycled materials, sand, paper, and more!
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Super Science
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Age Group: Bear
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Green Lab
Investigate density while designing and testing a foil boat that carries cargo and layering colored liquids. Use different methods to make colors change and explore static and electricity.
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Build It
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Age Group: Webelo
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Discovery Lab
Join us in the Discovery Lab where we will learn basic safety while working with power tools. Explore measurements, learn to read through instructions and construction your very own project.
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Engineering
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Age Group: Arrow of Light
Capacity: 30
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Blue Lab
Learn what engineers do in the exciting workshop that brings robotics, electrical, and civil engineer projects to life! Examine blueprints and create an engineering project that sure to be a blast!
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Ice Dinosaurs:The Lost World of the Alaskan Arctic, now open at Sloan Museum through May 3!Built around groundbreaking discoveries that challenge the traditional understanding of paleontology, ICE Dinosaurs invites visitors to learn about the unique adaptations of polar dinosaurs who lived in cold, dark, and snowy conditions year-round. Learn more here. Add this special exhibit ticket to your general admission at guest services, or purchase in advance here. (Members receive free general admission and free admission to the exhibit. Learn more about membership benefits here). Recommended for ages 7+.
Thank you to The Nartel Family Foundation for Sponsoring this exciting new exhibit! |
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T.rex: The Greatest of All Tyrants, now open at Longway Planetarium!Giant Screen Films presents the most dazzling and accurate giant screen documentary ever made on this legendary predator and its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins. Narrated by Sam Neill. |
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Real Fossils Exhibit, by PaleoJoe and PaleoJen
Opens February 10 through April 5, 2026
Longway Planetarium - Saturn Classroom This FREE exhibit highlights real dinosaur bones and a "mini" lab that provides a snapshot of the tools, equipment and glues used to make the fossil bones recognizable and presentable to the public. Learn more at Longway.org or call (810) 237-3400. This temporary exhibit is free and open to the public during Longway Planetarium's regular lobby hours. |
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Mission: To engage our communities on a learning journey of history and science. |
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