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NE GA Science Symposium: Trucks & Tractors / Cooking with Cricket Flour (FREE)

Name: NE GA Science Symposium: Trucks & Tractors / Cooking with Cricket Flour (FREE)
Start: 2025-03-04T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-04T21:00:00-05:00

March 4 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm

“Join us for the 3rd day of the 2025 NE GA Science Symposium!

What a wonderful family activity, Troop Activity, interesting Date Night or just a good reason to get out of the house!
Come meet new people and learn some interesting Facts! Really tough science in a fun, carnival-like atmosphere!
For FREE!!

Events start at 4pm today with Touch A Truck!! Dump trucks, Bobcat, John Deere, a Pinzgauer!! UPS, garbage truck.. Tell us what trucks and tractors YOU want to see and we’ll work to get them there!
There are model trains in the Flowery Branch Train Depot, exhibits on loan from Fernbank Science Center, a chainsaw artist, Wreck-A-Wreck, tactile tables, roving Mad Scientists, opportunities to purchase dinner or snacks, live animals, and MORE!!

Before the Evening Keynote Presentation, we’ll judge the Daily T-Shirt Contest.
T-shirts will be judged on 1. Theme (tonight is Edible Bugs), 2. Originality, 3. Truth, 4. Legibility, 5. Humor. Audience applause determines the winner. Our prizes are Magnificent!!

Then at 6:30pm, Allison Houtzager, owner of Paradox Protein (located in Winder, GA) – one of the LARGEST cricket protein companies in America, presents –
Cooking with Cricket Flour

Umm… EW! How can you cook with CRICKETS?!? WHY – Why would you cook with crickets? I’m not going to eat BUGS!!
Guess what – you are ALREADY eating bugs!
Cinnamon, ketchup, chocolate.. NOoooooOOoooo!! Yep. You are unknowingly already eating.. Bugs.
Could eating bugs be beneficial? What if the meat WE eat had a clean diet? Can YOU tell the difference between traditional flour bread and cricket flour bread? What about cookies? Can you make cookies with cricket flour?
Wait. Is cricket flour gluten free? WAIT. If .. there are no starches in cricket flour.. Is it KETO?
Hmm..
And Ms. Allison knows ALL about all the cricket Everything.
She’s planning to bring bread, cookies, and muffins for US to try. Which is made with cricket flour?

This is an interactive, family-friendly, NERD-level presentation. Children of ALL ages are welcome!
Children as some of The Best questions!
. . . And doors exist so disruptive children can be re-located.
Please be considerate of other’s ability to hear and interact with the Speaker.

Ms. Allison’s presentation concludes with 10-15 minutes of questions from the audience.
What are YOU going to ask her? . . .
YES! You are welcome to take pictures with Ms. Allison! YES! Photo ops will be available throughout the Symposium!

And Then – we have TWO Evening Experiments!
1. Butterfly Camouflage Contest begins.
Standard-form butterfly shapes will be made available for participants to camouflage to hide in plain view all over historic downtown Flowery Branch! Examples of camouflaged butterflies will encourage participants in how to design and color their butterflies so they don’t get discovered! Butterflies still undiscovered by 5pm at Closing Ceremonies will receive a prize!

2. Edible Bugs
Attendees are invited to join us in trying different kinds of edible bugs. These are bugs currently available for purchase by the public. Edible bugs were purchased from Amazon and EntoBugs. We’ll be trying ants, silkworms, a tarantula, scorpions, ant brittle, chocolate covered crickets, and more!

There are MANY activities occurring simultaneously. Everything pauses for the duration of the Evening Speaker. There are Vendors, gem mining, a fossil dig, model trains, a chainsaw artist, Fernbank Science Center exhibits, tactile tables, roving Mad Scientists, Rescue Societies, live animals.. and MORE!!
Activities are located all over historic downtown Flowery Branch.
The Evening Speaker will be in the Community Room, adjacent to the Police Station.

Admission and participation are FREE!!
Food and extra activities for purchase. + FANTASTIC Science-related Vendors!
What a wonderful family activity, Troop Activity, interesting Date Night or just a good reason to get out of the house!
Come meet new people and learn some interesting Facts!

There is NO religion at the Symposium.
No Scriptures. No New Age-ism. No Evolution.
We strive to present ONLY Facts- Objective, Observable, Measurable, Repeatable – Science.
NO worldview. Truth in Science.”

When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 (4-9pm)
Location: Flowery Branch Police Dept, 5270 Railroad Ave, Flowery Branch, GA
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