American Science & Surplus

To commemorate American Science & Surplus's 75th anniversary, AS&S is hosting their inaugural "Science Night" at their Geneva location from 6p-10p Friday, August 3rd.

Science Nights promise to be fun, exciting and educational for families of all ages (from 1-100!) which are welcome to participate in the festivities!

Please take a peek at both the schedule and agenda for the dates below and let me know if you'd like to have Astronomer Paul Chapman in-studio for the 11am. I will forward you a segment that took place in Milwaukee on CBS-58 with their Anchors & Paul last week.


EVENT SCHEDULE 

• 6-10pm Explore and Learn 
  Our staff will be helping to engage minds and promote learning through fun, interesting and interactive demonstrations though out the store during the entire evening.   
• 6-7pm Telescope Workshop 
  Bring in your old telescope and we will help you get it back into working order. We will also be answering questions and demonstrating how to set up and use a telescope. 
• 7-8pm  Microscope Workshop 
  While our microscopes will be set up for your use all evening, during this time we will demonstrate slide making and sample staining, and explain and demonstrate the different features that microscopes can offer you. 
•  8-10pm Telescope Viewing 
  We will have our telescopes set up outside, weather permitting, and take a journey across the heavens. Bring our scope and join us as we view Saturn, nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and Earth’s own amazing moon this year. 

 
Aug 3 rd  Geneva 6-10pm 
Aug 31 st Chicago 6-10pm 
Sept 28 th  Milwaukee 6-10pm 
Oct 26 th  Geneva 6-10pm 
  
    
WHAT TO EXPECT 
For each of these events there will be a number of displays, demonstrations and hands-on opportunities for everyone to explore, tweak and enjoy that will be centered around the evening’s theme. 

Expect other fun surprises as well! Rain or shine, we have a fun and interesting evening planned for each of these dates, and while the weather can certainly impact the night’s telescope viewing, the rest of the events will be unaffected.  

MADE ACCESSIBLE 
Science, in all its many wondrous forms, can often be overwhelming and daunting, especially for those just starting to explore and learn. That’s where American Science & Surplus can help you. Long a destination frequented by budding and amateur scientists, we are expanding our hands-on approach to science and learning by offering a series of Science Nights at our stores.  These events will give you, your friends and family an opportunity to explore the far reaches of both outer and inner space through professional quality telescopes and microscopes; hands-on and hair- raising experiments with electricity; chemistry experiments to create gooey and slippery slimes and polymers and much, much more.