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Science Sparks is a drop-in family program encouraging innovation and creativity as visitors are given a hands-on engineering challenge to complete.

Have a blast during your visit to Hagley with cannon firings!

Enjoy five courses of game and paired wines and the signature Hagley Cannonball dessert. Catered by Wilmington Club.

Hagley celebrates the inventive spirit and creative potential of America’s youth with Kid Inventors’ Weekend.

Celebrate International Women's Day by learning about some of the few women who have traveled to space and their contributions to science!

In collaboration with Longwood Gardens’ Community Read, learn about unique ways you can turn one plant into many.

How do we generate power from wind? Build and test your own wind turbine to find out!

Join us for our annual run/walk to benefit Hagley’s Field Trip Program. 

Learn the coded language of computers and make a bracelet using binary code! 

Discover the wondrous transformation from kitchen scraps to yard waste with Plastic Free Delaware!

Use Newton's laws of motion to build a catapult and test out how far you can launch a projectile.

Explore the fascinating properties of different materials and how they shape the world around us.

Learn about the Summer Solstice and why we have different amounts of daylight throughout the year. Create your own model of the sun and earth!

Find out how sound is produced and create a musical instrument that will vibrate to make sound.

Discover how thermal energy is transferred and use these concepts to free treasure trapped in ice.

Learn how to gauge the health of our local waterways by observing the variety of critters living in and around it.

From grocery bags to clothing to slime, polymers are everywhere! Discover what makes polymers so useful in our everyday life.

There is a whole world of things we can't see with our eyes at the nanoscale. Get a glimpse of this tiny world and its unique properties!

Transforming trash is fun! Up-cycle plastic bags and scrap paper to make new materials.

Give yourself a "lift" by learning about the fundamentals of flight. Make a paper airplane and hoop glider that fly far!

Discover why we need bones and what happens if our bones aren't strong. Build a free-standing chair of bones to take home.

Find out how robots are built and programmed and visit with a local robotics team to test out their designs!

Feathers, blubber,  microclimates, oh my! Learn about all the ways that animals stay warm in cold climates.