Get In Touch With Your Inner Caveman With Flintknapping Classes At The Herrett Center

The Primitive Skills workshops at the Herrett Center for Arts and Science continue with beginning and intermediate flintknapping, fascinating classes that will show you how those ordinary-looking rocks were transformed into the necessities of life long ago.

Explore Herrett: Flint Knapping Workshops

Beginning Flint Knapping

- 6/21 (6:30 to 9:00 PM), 6/24 (6:30 to 9:00 PM), and 6/25 (10:00 AM to 4:00 PM)
- Cost: $50 (includes lunch on Saturday, 6/25)

Intermediate Flint Knapping

- 6/28 (6:30 to 9:00 PM), 7/1 (6:30 to 9:00 PM), and 7/2 (10:00 AM to 4:00 PM)
- Cost: $50 ($10 discount for students of the beginning class) (includes lunch on Saturday, 7/2)

Explore Herrett: Robotics Workshop

- 6/28, 6/29, & 6/30, 12:00 to 4:00 PM
- Build, program, and troubleshoot LEGO Mindstorm robots
- Taught by instructors who placed 10^th in this year’s FIRST international robotics competition
- Minimum age: 8
- Cost: $75 per person
- Pre-registration is required
- Meets scouting badge/patch requirements

Summer solar sessions

- Every Wednesday, 1:30 to 3:30 until Labor Day
- Free admission
- Great views of the sun’s surface and atmospheric activity
- Some bright stars and planets visible (in the daytime!) with the Herrett 24” telescope