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Enjoy your Christmas shopping this year by spending time in the relaxing atmosphere of the Caravan Arts and Crafts Show featuring a variety of items; a bake sale; Raffle for lots of good stuff; Flori-Bama Small Breed Pet Rescue with lots of cute adoptable dogs; Activities for children; Concession with soda, hot dogs, hamburgers, brats, and chicken salad sandwiches. More info: https://www.scpen.org/caravan2021.html

Join us and kick off Winter Break with some science fun! We're open for general admission from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Be sure to check out our Creature Feature at 11 a.m. during your visit.


Activities included with general admission. Spaces available for the Creature Feature on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join us for new activities each day to celebrate the season! 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day with Winter Workshop activities ongoing from 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. All activities included with general admission.

Schedule of Events
DECEMBER 21: CHEMISTRY CORNER Oh Chemis-tree, oh Chemis-tree! Join us for a very special Holiday Chem Demo at 10:30 a.m. followed by your own chance to become a very Merry Mad Scientist and make your own melting snowman from 11-11:30 a.m. After Chemistry Corner, hop on over to play winter games on the sciPad from 11:30-1:30 p.m., open for all to enjoy!

DECEMBER 22: OPTICAL ILLUSIONS You'll be seeing double the fun from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. during Winter Workshops. Discover holographic glasses that mysteriously transform ordinary lights into a holiday surprise for the eyes, and be sure to check out our optical illusion station. You can also write you very own holiday greetings or wish list using our invisible ink (don't worry, Santa's magic helps him read it). Then play sciPad winter games for all from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. today.

DECEMBER 23: HOLIDAY CIRCUITS Let there be light! From 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. you can make your own light up holiday card to take home then play with our Squishy Circuits. Will you create a holiday tree, candy cane, or ornament to light up with our special conductive dough? Tis the season to get crafty! At 1 p.m., join us for a Holiday Creature Feature with a very special guest.

Check out a Creature Feature at 11 a.m., play sciPad winter games from 12 to 2 p.m., and enjoy the entire museum from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. December 29 & 30.

The holiday break isn't over yet! Don't miss our Creature Features from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Then dash over to join in on winter games from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on the sciPad, and enjoy the rest of the museum from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

All activities included with general admission. Spaces for the Creature Feature available on a first come, first served basis.

Join us for the Pensacola Archaeological Society Virtual Lecture: "Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area" by UWF graduate student, Rikki Oeters!

The Pensacola Archaeological Society Lecture Series is a free online series that features a short presentation by an archaeologist via Zoom and an opportunity for participants to ask questions at the end of the presentation (duration is about one hour and a half total).

Space is limited, however, and a password will be required for access. Please register for this presentation at the link provided: https://bit.ly/3wPoIbzDecPAS2021. After your registration is complete, you will receive an email invitation with the Zoom link to the lecture!

Don't miss out on the event of the year for women! The Women in Leadership Conference is returning on Friday, March 11, 2022, to the University of West Florida Conference Center!

The annual UWF Women in Leadership Conference educates the next generation of business leaders destined to positively impact the state of Florida. This conference resonates with well-established career women and those just beginning their careers. Remarkably successful women, including CEOs from across the state, share their stories through inspiring speeches and panels dedicated to both personal inspiration and practical application.

Registration is open - both for in-person and virtual opportunities!

The PSC commencement ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Pensacola Bay Center. Julian MacQueen, a Pensacola State College District Board of Trustees member, will be the guest speaker.

Pat Horacek, PSC mathematics professor, will be the Grand Marshal. Michael Payne, assistant professor of business, and Kenneth Phillips, the Performing Arts department head, will serve as Faculty Marshals. PSC Registrar Stephanie Denmark and Karen McCabe, director of the Santa Rosa Center, will be the Student Marshals.

Students are limited to eight guests each. Attendees are encouraged to wear face masks and follow social distancing protocol at the nursing pinnings and graduation ceremonies. MacQueen is the founder and chairman of Innisfree Hotels, the Gulf Breeze-based hotel development and management company that owns and operates a collection of hotels in the Southeast.

Since founding Innisfree Hotels in 1985, the company is currently ranked as the 42nd largest hotel company in the United States and the seventh largest employer in the Pensacola metropolitan statistical area.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, MacQueen graduated from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. MacQueen and his wife, Kim, are members of the Bahá’í Faith, founding life-changing programs, such as University of South Alabama MacQueen Alumni Center, MacQueen School of Hospitality at the University of West Florida, Parent University of Pensacola, Equality Project Alliance for Anti-Racism, Escambia Children’s Trust, and more.

Also, Innisfree Hotels funds Dixon School of Arts & Sciences, a private, K-eighth-grade school serving at-risk youth living in Escambia County.

Recognized for his hotel management prowess and philanthropy, MacQueen has been awarded with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, 2019 Elvin McCorvey Education Award by NAACP, and 2020 Florida Trend 500’s Most Influential Business Leader in Hospitality.

For family and friends who cannot attend, the events will be livestreamed at: Nursing Pinning ─ http://www.facebook.com/FirstPentecostalChurch, GED Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege and PSC Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege.

Adult Education graduation is set for 6 p.m. Dec. 9 in the Delaino Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus. Richard Carr, a PSC Humanities and Social Science instructor, will be the guest speaker.

A Pensacola native, Carr earned his GED and is a PSC graduate. He received his graduate training in psychology at the University of West Florida and sociology training at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

The PSC commencement ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Pensacola Bay Center. Julian MacQueen, a Pensacola State College District Board of Trustees member, will be the guest speaker.

Pat Horacek, PSC mathematics professor, will be the Grand Marshal. Michael Payne, assistant professor of business, and Kenneth Phillips, the Performing Arts department head, will serve as Faculty Marshals. PSC Registrar Stephanie Denmark and Karen McCabe, director of the Santa Rosa Center, will be the Student Marshals. Students are limited to eight guests each. Attendees are encouraged to wear face masks and follow social distancing protocol at the nursing pinnings and graduation ceremonies. MacQueen is the founder and chairman of Innisfree Hotels, the Gulf Breeze-based hotel development and management company that owns and operates a collection of hotels in the Southeast.

Since founding Innisfree Hotels in 1985, the company is currently ranked as the 42nd largest hotel company in the United States and the seventh largest employer in the Pensacola metropolitan statistical area.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, MacQueen graduated from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. MacQueen and his wife, Kim, are members of the Bahá’í Faith, founding life-changing programs, such as University of South Alabama MacQueen Alumni Center, MacQueen School of Hospitality at the University of West Florida, Parent University of Pensacola, Equality Project Alliance for Anti-Racism, Escambia Children’s Trust, and more.




Also, Innisfree Hotels funds Dixon School of Arts & Sciences, a private, K-eighth-grade school serving at-risk youth living in Escambia County.

Recognized for his hotel management prowess and philanthropy, MacQueen has been awarded with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, 2019 Elvin McCorvey Education Award by NAACP, and 2020 Florida Trend 500’s Most Influential Business Leader in Hospitality.

For family and friends who cannot attend, the events will be livestreamed at: Nursing Pinning ─ http://www.facebook.com/FirstPentecostalChurch, GED Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege and PSC Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege.

For more information on the nursing pinning's and/or graduation ceremonies, call Sheila Nichols, the College’s executive director of marketing, at 850-484-1428.

Set phasers to fun! Test your wits at this special sci-fi edition of Trivia Night. Maximum 6 people per team. This event is for ages 21 & up. Prizes for winning team.

May the force be with you as you test your wits at this special sci-fi edition of Trivia Night! Teams (maximum of 6 people per team) are invited to come nerd out with us and decide once and for all who's the brains of the group. The winning team will receive one $25 gift certificate to the center, good for admission, workshops, gift shop purchases, planetarium events, and more.


Have a drink, come up with a ridiculous team name (Livin la Vida Yoda, anyone?), and start the weekend off right with a fun trivia challenge. Hasta la vista, baby. Theme Sci-fi movies and TV shows Ages 21 & up only

Join Healthy Gulf for a New Year’s day beach hike as we celebrate the arrival of 2022 along the shifting sands and waters of Santa Rosa Island at Pensacola Beach. We’ll hike along both the Gulf and Sound side of the Island, exploring the changing plant communities and life along the shoreline. Along the way we’ll learn more about terrestrial and aquatic life by examining what has washed ashore, including seeds, shells, plants, fish, crabs and other items both natural and man-made.

The hike is a total length of about four miles and will take about two hours to complete. We’ll begin at the west end of Pensacola Beach, and the exact meeting location will be provided upon registration. Space is limited in order to ensure a quality experience, so to reserve a spot or for more information please email christian@healthygulf.org or call (850) 687-9968.

Healthy Gulf is a nonprofit organization that works to protect and restore the Gulf of Mexico and the people and communities along its shores. For more information or questions please contact Florida – Alabama Coastal Organizer Christian Wagley: christian@healthygulf.org or (850) 687-9968.