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Open every weekend & all winter break! Purchase tickets online, save $2 each!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
New Year's Eve Around the World
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Sunday, December 6, 2026
Winter Wonder Lab
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EXPERIMENT BAR: A Lab staff member leads students in an experiment of your choosing:
TINKER SHOP: A Lab Staff member leads students in an engineering challenge of your choosing:
INSPIRATION HUB: Students explore this gallery and different activities relating to energy, chain reactions, and gears. Lab staff are available to engage and encourage students.
LAB GARAGE: Students and chaperones are challenged to design and build the strongest, tallest or most unique structure using KEVA Planks. Lab staff communicate the challenge and then engage and encourage students as they work in groups.
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Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates the Children's Science Center Lab at Fair Oaks Mall and STEM programs traveling to schools and other community venues across the region. The Foundation is also developing the Northern Virginia Science Center in Dulles, VA, a world-class, interactive regional science center for families, students and learners of all ages made possible through a pivotal public-private partnership. Learn more about our mission today at childsci.org and our vision for the future at novasci.org.

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