Weekend Family Workshops: hands-on, family experiences investigating science, engineering, and aerospace topics in fun and surprising ways. Held on Saturdays and Sundays. Actual dates & times vary and are subject to change. Please check upon arrival for the day's workshop.
All ages are welcome and youth under age 15 should participate with an adult.
Explore More
After participating in a Workshop activity at the Museum, we encourage you to check out the resources below to learn and explore more!
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the WASP from the The Bullock Texas State History Museum
- The National Women’s History Museum also has information about WASP
- Listen to how WASP finally were recognized for their service Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls : NPR
- Search the official archive of the WASP from Texas Women’s University
- The Flight Deck podcast has An Interview with a WASP and WASP to learn more!
Watch Videos
Some Good Reads!
For mid-to-late elementary-aged readers:
- The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Julie Leung
- What Grandma Did by Erin Miller
- Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
- Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee by Marissa Moss
For middle school readers:
- Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
- Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins by James W. Ure
- Flying Higher: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Wanda Langley
For high school and adult readers:
- The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Major General Mari K. Eder
- A WASP Among Eagles by Ann B. Carl
- The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
- Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls by Dr. Karl Friedrich
- Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win World War II by P. O’Connell Pearson
- The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
- Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot by Sarah Byrn Rickman
Additional Resources
- Learn about how birds have inspired mechanical flight - NASA.gov
- Natural flight, bird wings and paper airplanes – Learn how bird wings inspire airplane wing shapes – wvstateu.edu
- Butterfly Wings: using Nature to learn about Flight – Learn how wings use the flying force of LIFT – stemlibrarylab.org
- How we lifted flight from bird evolution – learn how early engineers like the Wright Brothers used Bird, Bat and insect wings to make their flying machines – hrwc.org by Erin Malsbury
Some Good Reads!
- Let’s Fly a Plane by Chris Ferrie
- Take Off - A Berenstain Bears Book by Mike Berenstain
- Kid’s Paper Airplanes Book by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers
- Why Should I Walk? I Can Fly! By Ann Ingalls
Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Whirligig
Additional Resources
- Take a virtual tour of the Perseverance rover and learn about all of the components in a very up-close way! - Learn About the Rover - NASA Mars
- Find out all about the 23 cameras on Perseverance including where they are and what they do! - Rover Cameras - NASA Mars
- Learn more about Ingenuity including its flight log from Mars! - Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
- Spend some time coloring with an expert and learn about the Ingenuity helicopter!
- Play a low-tech game with someone to learn about the communication delay on Mars! - Sorry for the Delay
Some Good Reads!
- Mars' First Friends by Susanna Leonard Hill and Elisa Paganelli
- Mars Science Lab Engineer Diana Trujillo by Kari Cornell
- Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration by Rod Pyle
Weekend Family Workshops are made possible through a generous sponsorship from Swire Coca-Cola, USA
