In Brief:
Title:
Visitors Get Hands-on During Space
Odyssey Program at the RMSC
Location: 657 East Avenue,
Rochester, NY 14607
Dates/Times: Saturday–Sunday, November 3–4: 12-4pm
Admission: Free
with regular Museum admission: $13 adults, $12 seniors and college students
with ID, $11 children (3-18), free for children under 3 and RMSC members
Detailed Information: www.rmsc.org; Facebook;
Twitter (@rocRMSC)
Media Contact: Debra Jacobson, Director of Marketing and Community Affairs
(585) 697-1944 • debra_jacobson@rmsc.org
Visitors Get Hands-on
During Space
Odyssey Program at the Rochester Museum
& Science Center
ROCHESTER,
NY—In Space Odyssey: Colonization of
Space, a new program at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC),
visitors explore frontiers in space through several
interactive activities. The program takes place from 12pm to 4pm on
Saturday, November 3 through Sunday, November 4.
Created for families by families, Space Odyssey: Colonization of Space
coincides with the twelfth anniversary of the continuous occupation of the
International Space Station. Future explorers will spend even more months and
years away from Earth. Visitors explore how humankind will survive and what can
happen on other worlds.
Visitors participate in several
activities. They have the opportunity to:
- Learn what it takes to become an
astronaut via playing an interactive computer game.
-
Have a digital photo taken of themselves in an off-world environment.
-
Make-and-take space crafts.
- Participate in a scavenger hunt
throughout the Museum where they can explore different aspects of living in
space.
- Build a small, enclosed ecosystem in
a soda bottle. These terrariums demonstrate how humans could grow plants in an
environment that is unsuitable for typical plant growth.
- Send a post card telling someone all
about his or her space adventure.
Space
Odyssey is part of NASA
Science and Technology on the Family Calendar, a continuing collaboration with
NASA and RIT. Space Odyssey is the creation of a diverse group of
families with middle-school-age children that has been meeting at RMSC and at
the Rochester Institute of Technology for more than a year, learning about the
work of NASA and the challenges of living in space. They selected the topic of
colonization of space for their event, and they have been selecting, inventing
and testing family-appropriate activities under the guidance of educators from
RMSC and RIT's Insight Lab. Future NASA-themed family events will be presented
at RMSC in 2013, featuring work by families from the Rochester City and
Rush-Henrietta school districts. The
project is based upon work supported by NASA under grant award NNX10AD87G. Space Odyssey is also part of the RMSC's Science Saturdays program.
Space
Odyssey is free with
regular Museum admission: $13 adults, $12 seniors and college students with ID,
$11 ages 3 to 18, free for children under 3 and RMSC members. For
group reservations and rates, call (585)697-1942. Programs take place in the
Museum unless otherwise specified. Check www.rmsc.org
for updates.
Though ideal for ages 10 to 14 years, Space Odyssey can be enjoyed by visitors
of all ages.
Rochester
Museum & Science Center (RMSC) receives major funding from Monroe County.
RMSC includes a planetarium, nature center and science/regional history museum.
The Rochester Museum & Science Center stimulates broad community interest
and understanding of science and technology, and their impact—past, present,
future—on our lives. For more information about RMSC, visit www.rmsc.org. Find us on Facebook
and follow us on Twitter (@rocRMSC).
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