Join us for the SASSAk12 End-of-Summer Celebration
September 20, 2025
9:00am - 1:00pm at Phalen Regional Park
Join us in celebrating the past, present, and future of SASSAk12!
Register by Monday, September 15!
We want to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished over the past 10-years and share our vision for the next chapter of SASSAk12 with you, our amazing community of volunteers, participants, and new friends. What can you expect from this event?
Test out some of our new and updated interactive educational activities!
Throughout the day, we will have FOUR activities from the SASSAk12 collection available at scheduled times throughout the day for you to test out yourself. Whether you are a parent, a child, an educator, or a researcher, get just a taste of what we have to offer! These activities include:
How to Grow a Forest: The Game of Ecological Succession
Monkey Movement: The Game of Primate Movement Ecology
Unearthing the Past: Archaeological Excavations
Paleo-Play Lab
We’ll also have a collection of all-day activities to build your own collection of SASSAk12 swag! Including friendship bracelets, t-shirts, and more!
Learn how you can work with us to inspire the next generation of science and social studies researchers!
Mixed in with our hands on, interactive educational activities will be opportunities to learn about the past 10-years of success of the SASSAk12 community and consider how you might want to connect with us.
Every person who joins our celebration event will receive a small activity booklet that will guide you through a unique SASSAk12 Scavenger Hunt to learn about our mission, our vision, and the ways in which we have already worked to build a better future by making connections between research and society, science and social studies, academia and K-12 educational communities. And what will you get upon achieving your mission to hunt down all the answers? A prize of course! But let’s not give away all of the surprises…
Start building bridges and connections!
We want to get to know you. And we want you to get to know us too. There will be opportunities to come away with more than just a better understanding for who we are and how we can support you. You’ll also…