Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville (STFK) is a member of the NOVA scienceNOW community and proudly sponsors Science Café events for the Knoxville, Tennessee area.
The STFK Science Café has been meeting monthly since April, 2011 to promote science interest and education. We begin each meeting by watching a 10-minute NOVA video about a science topic. This is followed by a Q&A discussion in which attendees have their questions answered by a guest scientist. This is a casual, fun, engaging dialog for adults and mature teenagers. Children age 5-12 are welcome at attend with their parents, and we will keep them busy at Kid's Café with a science lesson and activities that help make learning science fun!
Please RSVP by sending an e-mail message to rsvp@knoxsciencecafe.org. Let us know how many adults and children are in your group.
- Topic: "Emergence!"
- Presenter: Stephen Lyn Bales, Naturalist and Author
- Synopsis: Every child who grew up in East Tennessee has at one time or another found the discarded exoskeletons of creatures that fired the imagination about alien life from distant planets. That's because every seventeen years, this area is ground zero for what some might call a "plague of biblical proportions!" It is the emergence of the 17-year cicadas. At this month's STFK Science Cafe, we will prepare for this extraordinary event by discussing the species and learn what to expect starting shortly after the date of our meeting.
- Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2021 at 5:30-7:00 P.M.
- Location: The Outdoor Pavilion at Ijams Nature Center, located at 2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920. Park in the lot nearest to the Visitor Center main entrance. The arrow in the picture below starts at the edge of the parking lot and points to the Outdoor Pavilion. As you walk towards the Visitor Center main building, the Outdoor Pavilion will be on your right.
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- Media Coverage: This STFK Science Café meeting was featured on the WBIR eleven o'clock news. Click on the picture below to watch the short television clips on YouTube.
Please make plans to attend! If you have any questions, we have a
special e-mail address set up,
sciencecafe@spirit-and-truth.net.
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