Explore the history of flight, navigation and NASA’s vision for the future. Experiment with thrust, lift, control surfaces and gyroscopes. Build rockets and paper airplanes, then test them for distance and air-dexterity. Launch your rocket to Saturn, your plane to Sydney, or learn about a career at NASA!

Our Prairie Garden is full of pretty flowers and grasses. Come celebrate summer with your friends out on our 3rd Floor Terrace, then you can plant some seeds for your own garden.

Enjoy a FREE 5–10-minute science demonstration by a Flint Hills Discovery Center Educator while you picnic and splash!

Finals for the 2023 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest

Experience Manhattan, the Flint Hills, and the world like never before! The Flint Hills Discovery Center continues its program into the summer to provide a unique experience for kids year-round. We offer full-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 1-3 and special half-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 4-6 in fall 2023. Youth entering the younger camp must have completed Kindergarten.

Enjoy a FREE 5–10-minute science demonstration by a Flint Hills Discovery Center Educator while you picnic and splash!

Experience Manhattan, the Flint Hills, and the world like never before! The Flint Hills Discovery Center continues its program into the summer to provide a unique experience for kids year-round. We offer full-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 1-3 and special half-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 4-6 in fall 2023. Youth entering the younger camp must have completed Kindergarten.

Some bugs are so colorful they look like a painting! Search for bugs around the room or outside, then let's paint a butterfly and move like a beetle.

Enjoy a FREE 5–10-minute science demonstration by a Flint Hills Discovery Center Educator while you picnic and splash!

Experience Manhattan, the Flint Hills, and the world like never before! The Flint Hills Discovery Center continues its program into the summer to provide a unique experience for kids year-round. We offer full-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 1-3 and special half-day, week-long sessions for students entering Grades 4-6 in fall 2023. Youth entering the younger camp must have completed Kindergarten.

Enjoy a FREE 5–10-minute science demonstration by a Flint Hills Discovery Center Educator while you picnic and splash!