If you live in Hughes, Stanley, Pennington, Davison, Walworth, Tripp, Potter, Sully Lyman, Jackson, Todd or Gregory Counties, you are eligible for half off an in house program thanks to a generous donation from BankWest.  No applications, no forms to fill out, just schedule a program with your next SD Discovery Center trip and let us know you want a program courtesy of BankWest.  Go back

In House Programs:

StarLab: Our most popular show.  Learn the constellations in our portable planetarium.  Greek or Lakota stories. $50 1/2 hour show. 25 students. Grades K - 12.

The Story of Lewis and Clark: Come along a on a journey with Lonis Wendt a local historian as he tells us the amazing story of the famous explorers Lewis and Clark $100 1 hour show. 30 students.

Watershed Investigation: Be a water scientist. Play a game to analyze a sample of aquatic insects to learn what they say about water quality.  Use simple equipment to test stream water...what will you find?  Participate in a demonstration of how water gets polluted in the first place. $40 (subsidized by 319 I&E). 1 hour show.  30 students. Grades 6 - 8.

Leopold Education Project: Meet Aldo Leopold. Author and conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote a Sand County Almanac over 60 years ago.  Today, his work has been extended into hands-on activities that teach about the environment and our place in it.  Fun session utilizes language arts, geography and ecology skills. $40 (subsidized by 319 I&E). 1 hour show.  30 students. Grades 6 - 12.