Join us outdoors in the Children's Garden as Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow visits the Lunenburg Public Library to talk about biomimicry in nature!

Open to grades 4-8, registration is required.

This program combines biology and technology to empower everyone to think creatively about making a more sustainable human world. Biomimicry is an emerging discipline of emulating nature's best ideas to solve human problems, turning biological strategies into design principles (like the photo here of Velcro inspired by burdock burrs).

Using a wide variety of local specimens, our Mass Audubon educator will introduce tweens & teens to local, native plants and animals through hands-on observation and investigation. You'll be able to see, up close, the biological strategies plants and animals use to survive. Participants will learn both about and from the natural world. After a short presentation, participants will pick a human problem and brainstorm ways their nature object may provide solutions.

This program will connect tweens & teens to their local nature and will teach how nature solves problems while empowering everyone to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet!