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Be a part of our TEAM and help make improvements to county trail systems. All volunteers are asked to wear long sleeves, pants, and sturdy, closed-toe shoes. Bring work gloves and a water bottle. Registration is required the Thursday prior to ensure enough tools and refreshments for everyone. This TEAM Day will focus on building box steps at McFarland Park.

The AAAA host monthly educational programs for the public on the 3rd Saturday of each month, except December, starting at 7:00 PM. We congregate at 7 PM for a Meet and Greet with the meeting starting at 7:30. All programs will be held at the Story County Conservation Center at McFarland Park unless noted otherwise in the program for that month. Afterwards, weather and sunset permitting, we will move to the club's Observatory located just East of the Story County Conservation Center for astronomical observing. Telescopes and binoculars will be available for your viewing pleasure. The Big Bang is popularly but misleadingly presented as having started at an infinitesimal point. That concept depends entirely on an observer's point of view in space of which there is an infinite number. An accurate account of the Big Bang explains that the sudden expansion of the cosmos began everywhere, not just at a singular point. Vern Naffier will explain why this is so.