Check out this amazing resource for Science learning:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacks-by-subject

Competitions | STEM Action Center (utah.gov)

We’ve compiled a list of competitions for Utah students to test their STEM skills with other students around the state and nation. These include competitions in environmental science, engineering & technology, and science in space. Find the competition that is right for you!

BRIGHAM CITY

NOW-NEW YEARS Fantasy at the Bay Holiday Lights | Box Elder County Utah (visitboxeldercounty.com) - Celebrate the magic of the holidays with Willard Bay State Park! Fantasy at the Bay’s drive-through Christmas lights will be twinkling for all to see! Stay warm from the comfort of your car while enjoying the lights and signing along to the holiday carols! Fee per car.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE

ONGOING Virtual Tours | Hill Aerospace Museum (aerospaceutah.org) – Hill Aerospace Museum is now offering Virtual Tours of a number of different aircraft. These Virtual Tours give you an up close and personal tour of both the exterior and the interior of the aircraft. Take a moment and take a look for yourself. To open the virtual tour, click on the Virtual Tour's title or on the "Click for More" button on the photograph.

LEHI

MONDAYS through JAN Hutchings Museum Institute (johnhutchingsmuseum.org) – Every Monday through December and January they are giving our school a discounted rate of $3/children 3-17 and $4/adults 18+. Our students and families can show up anytime on Mondays during December and January to receive the discounted rate. Just tell them they are with Wasatch Learning Academy.

ONGOING Thanksgiving Point Families - Thanksgiving Point - Each week Thanksgiving Point hosts educational and fun activities for families of all ages and abilities! Our Family Programs include Tales for Tots, Melody Makers, and Dirt on Dinos, just to name a few.

DEC Luminaria - Thanksgiving Point - Experience the light of Luminaria, a holiday tradition so remarkable, it was featured on Season 8 of ABC’s popular program Great Christmas Light Fight: Heavyweight Edition!

LOGAN

DEC 2-Jan 2 Hardware visit (utah.gov) The DWR and Hardware WMA are pleased to announce that beginning DEC. 2, Haviland Old West Adventures will offer sleigh rides on the WMA Friday through Sunday during the winter elk-viewing season. A food truck will be present on these days to sell snacks and beverages.

DEC 2 Cache Valley Visitors Bureau - Calendar (explorelogan.com) I will be at Bridgerland Technical College. Visit Santa’s stables and see a REAL reindeer.

MURRAY

DEC 8 Solar Party. Take a self-guided, family-friendly stroll around Wheeler Historic farm. Learn the history of the Wheeler family, their farm, and meet some of the farm's animals. Then join us as we safely view the Sun and its sunspots. Don't forget your sunscreen! Register now at EventBrite. Learn More

NOW – DEC 16 Festive Fridays - Wheeler Historic Farm | SLCo –Bundle up and enjoy Festive Fridays at the Farm. Take a wagon ride and see some holiday lights displays. Santa will greet visitors on the porch of the Farmhouse from 5pm - 7pm.Wagon ride tickets can be purchased in the Activity Barn. Tickets are $3 per person age 2 and up.

DEC 13 Storytime at the Farm - Wheeler Historic Farm | SLCo – FREE

TUESDAYS Woodcarving - Wheeler Historic Farm | SLCo

OREM

NOW-JAN 2 Christmas Lights in The Orchard - University Place (universityplaceorem.com) FREE Come enjoy the Christmas Light display in The Orchard and around University Place throughout the Holiday Season. The display includes a 30′ tall walk-through tree, 75′ of archways, the trees, pergolas, and the UP logo all covered in over 100,000 lights. The display is Free and will be on nightly from 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm.

PARK CITY

DEC 2-3 BMW IBSF Bobsled & Skeleton World Cup 2022 | Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation –

FREE The Utah Olympic Park welcomes bobsled and skeleton athletes from Team USA and around the globe for this world-class competition.

Through Dec Youth Sports Alliance Activities (scroll to the bottom of their website to see an overview of the program and to view activities for your location). Last Friday of each month

PLEASANT GROVE

Evermore Park | Home

Students and families with Wasatch Learning Academy will get a 10% off their tickets to Evermore. The code can be used online or at the gate and doesn't currently have an expiration date. The code is Wasatch2022

PROVO

DEC 2 Ho Ho Hope: A Holiday Community Event Tickets, Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite – FREE pictures with Santa, hot chocolate, cotton candy, winter carnival games, face painting, contests and door prizes, live jazz band “Just Khakis” with Christmas sing along songs. Opportunity to support Mothers Without Borders by shopping at our African boutique. Located at the park between: 42 N University Ave. & Wells Fargo in Provo, UT

Dec 3 TRIVIA NIGHT

Trivia Night at the Bean Museum returns this fall! For only $5 per team, your team of 4 (or less) can participate. Refreshments served and prizes awarded.

DEC Christmas Lights in The Orchard - University PlaceUniversity Place FREE Come enjoy the Christmas Light display in The Orchard and around University Place throughout the Holiday Season. The display includes a 30′ tall walk through tree, 75′ of archways, the trees, pergola’s, and the UP logo all covered in over 100,000 lights.

DEC BYU's Christmas Around the World 2022 - Utah Cultural Alliance - Tickets are already discounted. A spectacular performance featuring the rich ethnic diversity of the world through captivating choreography with more than 150 dancers and musicians in colorful costumes.

DEC 2022 Provo Art Stroll (utahvalley.com) -
Head to Center Street to explore small businesses, local art, and live music in Downtown Provo. The Provo Art Stroll is a self guided art tour that takes place on the first Friday of every month in Downtown Provo!

SALT LAKE CITY

Dec 3 STEM Action Center Robot Build Day Tickets, Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite – FREE STEM Action Center will be hosting robot build days throughout the robotics season! Gain access to helpful mentors and high-quality equipment and materials, collaborate and practice with other teams, and enjoy a STEM-focused environment!

DEC 3 UTAH'S ANIMALS - DECEMBER 2022 Get up close and personal with the Great Basin gopher snake, North American bullfrog, Great Basin Spadefoot (toads), and Utah salamanders.

DEC 7 Sight & Sound: Breath of Air | The Utah Museum of Fine Arts FREE
Tours in the C&D Galleries starting at 6 pm We invite you to take a deep breath at our next Sight & Sound: Breath of Air, celebrating artwork in our latest exhibition Air, which closes December 11. Special guided tours of Air (and other atmospheric works in the UMFA’s collection!) start at 6 pm, where we’ll explore artwork that addresses themes of collective breath and collective responsibility. While your eyes, like air, move through the galleries, enjoy a special performance by Runnin' Fl'UTES in the Great Hall at 7 pm for a visual and audio experience that will change the way you look at art in a museum.

DEC 10 BUG BRIGADE - DECEMBER 2022 Meet the bugs at NHMU! Observe and handle live bugs to learn about their anatomy, behavior, and important ecological roles.

DEC Tracy Aviary - Lightwalk at Tracy Aviary - Take a stroll and experience Tracy Aviary's natural nighttime beauty, enhanced with thousands of twinkling lights, including a giant Christmas Light Maze and a selfie-worthy lighted tunnel. Enjoy nightly musical performances and delicious food and beverages from local food trucks, and dive into the holiday season each weekend with a festive Christmas Market featuring local arts, crafts, and seasonal treats. Cap your night off with a visit to Santa daily from 6-8 p.m.

DEC I Dig Dinos – Discovery Gateway Children's Museum –

Experience the only exhibit where you get to be the paleontologist!

Experience the life of a paleontologist through your child’s eyes in our one-of-a-kind exhibit. Kids can dig for fossils, take them to the lab and identify their find under a microscope, interact with real fossils found in Utah, and learn about kids who have actually discovered dinosaurs. It's a first of its kind exhibit where kids get to be the paleontologist and get to be hands-on with actual fossils and bones!

ONGOING Salt Lake Public Library Events: https://events.slcpl.org/events?r=thismonth

SOUTH JORDAN

DEC Christmas in Color - Drive through millions of lights perfectly synchronized to holiday music you’ll hear right through your radio. Drive by giant candy canes, snowmen, arched pathways and more. Take your time enjoying this lighting extravaganza.

SOUTH SUMMIT

Through Dec Youth Sports Alliance Activities (scroll to the bottom of their website to see an overview of the program and to view activities for your location).

SPANISH FORK

DEC Festival of Lights (spanishfork.org) - Running nightly (including Sundays) from 6 - 10 p.m.
Canyon View Park, 3300 E. Powerhouse Rd. (Map) Admission $10 per single-family vehicle

ST. GEORGE

ONGOING ST. GEORGE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Wasatch Learning Academy will get discounted admission $3 per child and FREE admission for one parent to each family. need to show they are with Wasatch Learning Academy to get the discounted admission.

DEC Christmas in the Canyon - Tuacahn Center for the Arts – FREE Come celebrate Christmas at Tuacahn this holiday season! With over 250,000 twinkling lights, a live nativity show, train rides on The Tuacahn Express, a open fire, and a visit with Santa Claus, you don’t want to miss Tuacahn’s Christmas in the Canyon event! There is no admission charge to visit Tuacahn and enjoy Christmas in the Canyon.

DEC Holiday Lights at Red Hills Desert Garden – Greater Zion Event - Red Hills Desert Garden will be transformed into a winter wonderland with thousands of holiday lights and displays that are guaranteed to add a little sparkle to the season. Lights are on nightly until 10 p.m.

WASATCH COUNTY

Through Dec Youth Sports Alliance Activities (scroll to the bottom of their website to see an overview of the program and to view activities for your location).

WEST JORDAN

DEC ELF DISPLAYS & ELF SCAVENGER HUNT GARDNER VILLAGE - Start your Christmas traditions at Gardner Village. You don’t need a ticket on the Polar Express to see Santa’s magic in action. Gardner Village brings you another year of fun from the North Pole with our whimsical elf displays.

DEC SNOWBALL EXPRESS TRAIN RIDETHE TRAIN SHOPPE (gardnervillage.com)
Saturdays During December, 11am to 7pm Choo! Choo! Holiday fun is here, and The Train Shoppe at Gardner Village has your ticket. All aboard the Snowball Express. Enjoy a festive tour of Gardner Village on this trackless train on Saturdays, 11am to 7pm, November and December 2022. Bundle up and get your caboose to the train stop by The Train Shoppe. Cost is $4 per person. Rides will be held weather permitting. Call The Train Shoppe at 801.322.2729 with questions.

ZIONS NATIONAL PARK

DEC Zion National Park Stargazing | Best in Utah | Zion Ponderosa - See the Utah Milky Way for the first time. Zion Ponderosa Ranch Resort sits at 6,500 feet in elevation on a forested plateau above Zion National Park, far away from the light pollution of towns and cities, enabling our guests to have brilliant views of the distant planets, stars, and the milky way. All ages welcome. Our knowledgeable guides will help you learn about constellations as you gaze at the crystal-clear night sky. Hot chocolate and telescopes will be provided.

Email: piper.riddle@wasatch.edu
Website: https://wasatch.edu/wla/
Location: 180 East 600 South, Heber City, UT, USA
Phone: 435-654-6010