Tag: explore

Genetics Explorations with ¡Explora!

Who in your family do you look like? Have you ever wondered why some people like cilantro and others think it tastes like soap?

Join OFPL, Explora, and UNM Health Sciences in-person at the Children & Youth Library on October 22nd from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM for hands-on activities exploring these questions and other genetic related puzzles.

Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

October 22nd from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Email pneilson@gallupnm.og or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Mighty Chondria Kids – Water Exploration Stations

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every other Monday at 4:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 1st at 4:00 PM

Explore the amazing properties of water through simple interactive experiments.

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Mars Rover Exploration

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Calling all space explorers! Join OFPL and guest presenter Darren Harvey in-person at the Children & Youth Library on July 22nd at 1:00 PM to learn about the Perseverance Mars Rover from an engineer who helped design it.

The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

July 22nd at 1:00 PM

Then, take on an engineering challenge as you design and build your own planetary rover out of pasta.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Mighty Chondria Kids – Exploring Seashells

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Join OFPL at The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library every Thursday at 2:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

June 23rd at 2:00 PM

Activities promote understanding of the natural world and encourages seeking out answers to questions about the natural world.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Creative Corner – Abstract Painting 103

Create your own art using various materials found around your home! These courses are geared towards individuals 14 years of age and older.

Tune in on Monday, September 21st at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration on abstract painting while learning advanced techniques in painting. Exploring and building on what we learned in Abstract Painting 101 & 102 (Watch part one at https://youtu.be/HPFoHuDA9zM & part two at https://youtu.be/TBooN19TPzw).

Part Three explores final details and advanced painting techniques as we build upon the painting.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Local Author

John Lewis Taylor

Join us on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30 p.m., Main Library for a book signing of: Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars.

John Lewis Taylor explores the question of why, so soon after the Navajo War, the Long Walk and imprisonment at Fort Sumner, young Navajos volunteered to join the United States military? The relationship between the Navajo Nation and the United States military in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will be presented along with a book signing.

John Lewis Taylor featured in Albuquerque the Magazine, September 2019 edition.

https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2019/08/31/navajo-scouts-during-us-army-apache-wars-chronicled-book/2168710001/

John Lewis Taylor featured in the Farmington Daily Times, online edition

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.