🛍️ Don`t forget about Member Shopping Weekend!⁠
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This weekend, November 28-30, Explora members get 25% off purchases when they show their valid membership card at the Explora store.

A special moment for the Brillante Early Learning Center 🧡⁠
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Last week, our Brillante classrooms, Explora staff, board members, donors, families, and community partners came together for a beam signing to celebrate a big milestone for the new Brillante building.⁠
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Everyone added their names to the beam that will stand at the entrance of the 14,000-square-foot Brillante Early Learning Center, a future lab school for early childhood workforce development and a hub for family and community resources.⁠
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This week, that signed beam was lifted into place on 18th Street across from Explora. Thank you to everyone who believes in this project and supports early learning in our community!⁠
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A special thank you to Weil Construction for helping us celebrate this milestone and for all the work they are doing on this project every day!

🔬 Meet a Scientist⁠
Chat with local scientists and explore how STEAM is shaping our community. You might even get inspired about your own future career!⁠
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Saturday, December 6 | 10 am–2 pm⁠
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Included with admission to Explora.

On November 12, Explora hosted its first event featuring materials from the NGCP`s IF/THEN Collection.⁠
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We joined Tony Hillerman Middle School’s Noche de Ciencias, where community members shared hands-on science activities with 35 middle schoolers and their families. The event included the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, meteorologists from KRQE`s Weather Academy, and scientists and engineers from UNM, Sandia National Laboratories, Intel, and HP. There was even a wandering bomb-squad robot named K9.⁠
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Explora led a STEM Identity activity where students layered colored sand in vials as a reflection of their strengths. It sparked great conversations between friends about what they see in themselves and each other. One student said he didn’t think he fit any of the traits until his friend told him, “You help me in PE all the time!” He ended up adding persistence and problem-solving to his vial.⁠
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