June 13, 2025
11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA

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Kick off the summer season and celebrate the end of another school year! Grab a blanket and some sunscreen and meet us on the front lawn of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry for this free event featuring music at the family stage, games and hands-on activities from incredible community partners. C2ST is bring stomp rockets, and there will be dozens of community organizations on site with games, swag, food, and so much more. If your summer calendar isn’t full already, it will be by the time you leave!

This outdoor event is free and open to the public. Admission to the Museum requires a ticket purchase. Ticketed Museum guests on this date can exit to access the picnic and re-enter to continue exploring.

June 11, 2025
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Douglas Park
Douglas Park, Chicago, IL, USA

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Join C2ST at the Encompassing Center’s Combined Communities Thrive Summer Fair. There will be activities, resources, wellness activities and more. C2ST will be out at this event with our microscope checking out cool biology samples.

June 3, 2025
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Perkins & Will
410 N Michigan Ave suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

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ColLABorate consilience is a half-day event exploring how an interdisciplinary approach can yield unique, novel solutions for sustainable laboratories.

Three project teams will share three complementary case studies providing examples of collaborative efforts across multiple disciplines that were instrumental in the synthesis of their facility design, construction, operation, or policy development.

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June 1, 2025
2:00 pm

Revolution Brewing - Brewery & Taproom
3340 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, USA

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Do you want to know why Homo Floresiensis are nicknamed the “real life Hobbits”? Find out and ask your own questions at our Speakeasy on June 1st!

Join the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Leakey Foundation, the Field Museum and Professor Adam Brumm for an evening of networking, socializing, and science!

Featuring a talk by Adam Brumm, professor of archaeology and founding member of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. Doors at Revolution Brewing + Taproom will open at 2:00 with the talk kicking off at 2:30. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

Registration is not required but is appreciated.

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May 31, 2025
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Field Museum
Field Museum, South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA

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The Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Leakey Foundation, and the Field Museum present a lecture with Adam Brumm, professor of archaeology and founding member of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University.

In the 1950s, the discovery of prehistoric rock art was reported for the first time on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. These images were found in limestone caves in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep. At the time, it was believed this art had been left by early Neolithic farmers, making them about 4,000 years old. However, in 2014, an Australian-Indonesian team dated the Maros-Pangkep art for the first time using a uranium-series analysis of natural mineral coatings that had formed on some of the images. The earliest dated image yielded a minimum age of 40,000 years, making it compatible with cave art in Spain, the oldest known art in the world at the time. The Sulawesi art therefore challenged the long-accepted story that the birthplace of human art and culture had been in Europe. The earliest painting, with a minimum age of 51, 200 years, is a scene portraying human-like figures interacting with a pig. It is the oldest cave art attributed to humans and the earliest known examples of visual storytelling in the world, providing crucial insights into the development of human cognition.

Communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking are important skills to develop for 21st-century careers. At Hernandez Middle School (HMS), all students work on developing these skills throughout their classes. At the STEM event, participants will engage in activities related to one of the 5C’s that show connections between STEM, the Arts, and their daily lives. C2ST will be bringing out our circuit-building and wind power activity for the event.

*This event is closed to the general public and is only open to HMS families. If you would like to volunteer or learn more about how to support future STEM nights, click the button above.