MMNS Events

MS Science Fest

For more information please contact Nicole Smith at 601-576-6000 or by email at nicole.smith@mmns.ms.gov

The LeFleur Museum District (LMD) invites you to attend a special STEM-themed festival!

On Saturday, September 18, all four museums of the LMD (MDWFP's Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, Mississippi Children’s Museum, and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum) will host a special day where experts and noted guests from science-based industries across the state will provide fun, hands-on educational experiences for children and families.

By bringing these experts together, MSF is able to show the range of career opportunities that exist while also sparking participants’ curiosity, excitement, and interest.

*Please note that MMNS Foundation Memberships will not be applicable on this date, as the $10 admission grants entry to all four LeFleur Museum District Museums.

Food vendors will be on-site, too. 

To learn more about this event as it develops and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.mssciencefest.org/.

EXHIBITORS AND FOOD TRUCKS AT MDWFP'S MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE:

FOOD TRUCKS:

• Afo’s Grill
• Hog Heaven

EXHIBITORS:

• Adopt-a-Stream
• Archaeological Conservancy
• Belhaven University Chemistry Department
• Bureau of Land Management
• Department Chemistry & Biochemistry of Mississippi College
• Department of Defense, Camp Shelby
• Eudora Welty Home and Garden
• Guy's Arrowheads and Stuff
• Madison Career Technical Robotics & Engineering
• Madison County Librarian
• MDWFP's MS Museum of Natural Science
• MS Archaeological Association
• MS Department of Environmental Quality
• MS Forestry Commission
• MS Geographic Alliance
• MS State University
• NASA (2 p.m.) - INTERACTIVE ZOOM IN THE MUSEUM'S ROTWEIN THEATER (will also be broadcast on the museum's Facebook page)
• Outside in MS

SPECIAL ZOOM / FACEBOOK LIVE AT 2 P.M. in the Museum's Rotwein Theater

Assistant Professor Francisco Muller Sanchez of the Department of Physics and Materials Science from the University of Memphis, will present the science behind two accepted cycle 1 JWST proposals about supermassive black holes, in which he is the Principal Investigator.

ABOUT THE JWST:

The JWST is being developed by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration in partnership with the European and Canadian Space Agencies, with science observations proposed by the international astronomical community in a manner similar to Hubble.