Calendar of Events:
- February 1 – February 11: Lucky Goat Fundraiser
- February 15: Orchard Pond Organic Farm Field Trip (Sign Up Here)
- February 19: Horizons Speaker Jenny Staletovich, WLRN
- February 22: MagLab Open House
- March 1: Neighborhood Internship Fair at Fairview Middle School
- March 22: Neighborhood Camp Fair at Pineview Elementary School
- March 26: Horizons Speaker Harrison Prosper, FSU Physics Professor
- April 16: Horizons Speaker Kathleen Amm, MagLab Director
Lucky Goat Fundraiser ~ NEED COFFEE? Help Support TSS
Tallahassee Scientific Society is teaming up with Lucky Goat Coffee Company for a Valentine’s Day fundraiser! Select your coffee of choice from the list below by February 11 and receive the coffee by February 27th. Email tss@tallysci.org with number of 10 oz bags at $12/bag you wish to purchase. The payment is due upon delivery, in cash or by check. (If you ordered Snowflake Crunch at the Gold Medal Event and wish to change your coffee flavor, let us know at tss@tallysci.org. We will be in touch!)
Join TSS for a Tour of Orchard Pond Organic Farm
Please sign up here to attend. Directions will be sent to you next week.
Please join TSS for an afternoon tour of Orchard Pond, an iconic organic farm in the Red Hills of North Florida. The “Farm Tour” will include a walking tour of the gardens, during which Farmer Phil will talk about the importance of organic growing, composting, soil conservation, and sustainable gardening practices. The tour will being at 1PM and last for two hours (or up to three hours if you want to stick around). Wear shoes that are meant for walking through a farm! See more about Orchard Pond here.
(Thank you to those of you who completed our field trip survey! Based on the data provided, we will be scheduling the College of Engineering, and the MagLab tours later this spring. )
Neighborhood Camp Fairs
MagLab research scientist and new TSS Board member Ilya Litvak began organizing “camp fairs” in 2019 as an opportunity for families to learn about affordable or free summer science camps. Tallahassee is home to a number of extracurricular STEAM activities and summer camps, many of which are available free of charge or provided as need-based scholarships. Ilya saw a need to connect vendors of these STEAM summer programs with underserved families, thus forming “The Neighborhood Camp Fair Project.” TSS is looking forward to working with Ilya to advance summer science opportunities in our community.
Two Neighborhood Camp Fair events are held at neighborhood schools where school-age students and their families meet STEAM summer program vendors and find out all they need to register for camps and learn about internship opportunities.
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An event for grades 6-12 will be held March 1st at Fairview Middle School. This Neighborhood Internship Fair has a focus on internship opportunities as well as pre-college summer programs at TSC, FSU, and FAMU. See TSS Calendar of Events.
- A second event for grades K-8 will be held March 22nd at Pineview Elementary School. This event will feature an indoor science and arts festival where camp vendors provide hands-on activities to encourage student participation in their respective camps. Students and their families learn about camps, enjoy a day of science, and find camp registration information. See TSS Calendar of Events.
The Fairs are free and open to the public. Vendor participation is also free of charge. Visit this link for more information about previous vendors.
HORIZONS 2025!
Tickets available for sale online and at the door on the night of the event.
Scenes from the 2024 Gold Medal Event
Dr. Jonathan Dennis was honored with the Tallahassee Scientific Society’s Gold Medal in a festive event at the Challenger Learning Center on January 23rd with catering provided by Hayward House Restaurant.
IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE “TALLYSCI.ORG” WEBSITE
You may receive a notice to renew your membership soon. We have delayed sending out renewal notices until our website and database can accept this information, which apparently is now. Most of you will need to “Become a Member” ,” rather than using the “Member Login” to renew, even if you have been a member in the past. Once you become a current member, you will be able to purchase tickets to events directly through the website with the member discount. Please let us know about any issues at tss@tallysci.org.