Events
Things with a date attached.
Nine things we do every year, plus family nights every month and a volunteer orientation on the first Tuesday. Almost all of it is free and open to the neighborhood.
- Annual events
- 7
- Monthly
- 2
- Attendance 2025
- 4,100+
- Admission
- Free
Rose City Science Fair
400 projects, 60 judges, one volcano limit.
MAY09Robot Rumble
Cardboard bots, double elimination, no crying in the pit lane.
JUN06The Great Haircut-a-Thon
Free cuts all day. 312 heads last year.
JUN18The Bridge Ceremony
We do not have graduation. We have a bridge.
JUL24Summer Showcase
Every program, one afternoon, too many paper airplanes.
AUG02Nothing Day
Four hours of optional silence in Mt. Tabor Park.
SEP12Fall Open House
Meet the teachers, eat the snack, meet the van.
EVERY2nd FRIFamily Night
Pizza, board games, and a very loose talent show.
MONTHLY1st TUEVolunteer Orientation
Two hours. Background check. Real talk about the work.
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The two monthly things
Family Night is the second Friday, 5:30–7:30, rotating sites. Pizza, board games, and a talent show that has included a kid playing the same four bars of a song for three minutes and receiving a standing ovation. Volunteer Orientation is the first Tuesday, 6–8 p.m., Hawthorne. Both are free and both require no advance notice.
Why we do events
Events are not fundraising. Almost none of them raise money and two of them cost us money on purpose. They exist because a program that only kids see is a program that parents cannot vouch for, and a program the neighborhood cannot see is a program that gets closed in a budget cycle. The Science Fair and the Haircut-a-Thon are the two best arguments we have, and neither of them involves a slide deck.
Come to something
Every event is free unless the listing says otherwise. No tickets, no RSVP for most, and no mandatory fundraising.