KIDS WEEK

10:00am–5:00pm | Displays and Activities | Hangar 3, Exploreum

Participants Include:

• Wildlife Conservation Society: Learn about the variety of engaging education programs at the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and New York Aquarium to explore a wildly fun hands-on activity!
• Two by Two Animal Haven: Explore the Wild World of Animals exhibit, which features a variety of fascinating creatures, including a kangaroo, cane toad, snake, bearded dragon, hissing cockroaches, skinny pig (Hairless Guinea Pig), parrot, North American alligator, and tortoise.
• Naval Surface Center, Philadelphia: Explore interactive technology demonstrations analogous to shipboard machinery systems on US Navy ships, submarines, and aircraft carriers with Department of the Navy STEM professionals.
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater: Play our version of "Go Fish!" Imagine you're out sailing with our sloop-themed coloring sheets, and interact with river critters.
• Naval Air STEM: See how Naval Air STEM, part of the Office of Naval Research, creates an inclusive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) culture that pioneers innovation and propels the Navy and the nation’s workforce forward.
• American Society of Civil Engineers Workshop: Build your own toothpick structure. Join us for the Interactive Seismic Structural Experience, where you can build your own toothpick structures and observe how they perform under seismic loading on our simulated shake table.
• Billion Oyster Project: Learn how you can help efforts to repopulate the oyster population in NY Harbor through community engagement initiatives and education.
• MakerBot: A leader in 3D printing solutions for education will showcase the power of 3D printing through the new Sketch Sprint 3D printers, featuring live interactive demos, giveaways, and activities that inspire creativity and bring ideas to life.
• New York Aquarium: Shark Research Table: Learn how scientists from the New York Aquarium study sharks in the wild. Practice your data collection skills just like our shark researchers and dig through sand to find real shark teeth!
• ROBOFUN: Experiment with a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces. Among many other projects, there will be a remote-controlled car, dance robots, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, circuitry station, video game creation software stations, and more. Come join in to engage with all these projects and see what you can make!
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Explore the Polar regions with some super cool superhero scientists! Spin the wheel to find what polar activity you get to try!
• Beardsley Zoo: Discover how incredible invertebrates survive in the wild with tabletop displays and live arthropod animal ambassadors!
• Nauticos: Nauticos is a world expert on the process of navigation track reconstruction (Renavigation) and in deep ocean search operations, providing ocean technology services to government, science, and industry. Visitors will learn how Nauticos, in partnership with the Seaword Foundation, is solving the Amelia Earhart Mystery with science & technology.
• The RoHawks, FIRST Robotics: Join the RoHawks, a high school robotics team, to explore electrical engineering through simple circuits, meet and drive our robot, and learn about how you can get involved with STEM and engineering opportunities for all ages!
• Columbia’s Society of Women Engineers: Come test your engineering skills and design paper boats to float on water.
• Innovators Inc.: How does an airplane fly, really? We know it’s got wings and an engine. We know that a pilot sits in the cockpit and moves the controls around. But what’s really going on? Meet David Simpson, innovator and founder, and come pilot the Hydrodynamic Flight Simulator yourself. See how energy is transferred from the engine to the plane as airspeed and how airspeed is turned into altitude. Take off, climb, cruise, descend, and land. With just water. Really.
• Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Families can join Brooklyn Robot Foundry to learn about circuitry and build a wiggly little robot. 

10:00am-4:30pm: Intrepid Museum Education Maker Zone Camouflage Planes: Create a camouflage plane that can blend in with its environment.

12:00pm: Intrepid Museum Education Demonstration Hiding in Plane Sight: Learn how animals use camouflage to survive in the wild and how they inspired different types of camouflage used on Intrepid.

12:30pm & 2:30pm: Tales and Talks: Join our knowledgeable Visitor Experience Specialists for tales and talks! From stories about the Intrepid’s crew to tales about other planets and everywhere in between, these talks will expand your experience at the Intrepid Museum! Offered daily at 12:30pm and 2:30pm in Hangar 2.

1:00pm: Mad Science Presents: Spin, Pop…Boom! Are you ready for some fun science? “Spin, Pop, Boom” is all about exciting experiments! You will witness incredible feats of chemistry as we explore a variety of spectacular reactions. Marvel at our demonstrations as we release genies from bottles and create massive columns of foam using our catalysts! Get ready to be amazed while you learn, because at Mad Science, education is always entertaining!

2:00pm: Two by Two Animal Haven Presents: Wild World of Animals: Join us as we share the importance of animal conservation. Our Wild World of Animal show brings fun and exciting animals to YOU!

3:00pm: Mad Science Presents: Spin, Pop…Boom! Are you ready for some fun science? “Spin, Pop, Boom” is all about exciting experiments! You will witness incredible feats of chemistry as we explore a variety of spectacular reactions. Marvel at our demonstrations as we release genies from bottles and create massive columns of foam using our catalysts! Get ready to be amazed while you learn, because at Mad S

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.  

10:00am–5:00pm | Displays and Activities | Hangar 3, Exploreum

Participants Include:

• Naval Surface Center, Philadelphia: Explore interactive technology demonstrations analogous to shipboard machinery systems on U.S. Navy ships, submarines, and aircraft carriers with Department of the Navy STEM professionals.
• NYC Away Team: Come meet a welcoming, social, and inclusive group of fans who enjoy wearing Star Trek-related cosplay, attending conventions, screenings, and premieres together! NYC Away Team is an independent not-for-profit group operating since 2013.
• Naval Air STEM: See how Naval Air STEM, part of the Office of Naval Research, creates an inclusive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) culture which pioneers innovation and propels the Navy and the nation’s workforce forward.
• American Society of Civil Engineers Workshop: Build your own toothpick structure. Join us for the Interactive Seismic Structural Experience, where you can build your own toothpick structures and observe how they perform under seismic loading on our simulated shake table.
• Billion Oyster Project: Learn how you can help efforts to repopulate the oyster population in the NY Harbor through community engagement initiatives and education.
• NYC Ghostbusters: NYC Ghostbusters are back aboard Intrepid to teach you how to make your own cross-link polymer gel using their own scientific recipe for ectoplasmic slime.
• MakerBot: A leader in 3D printing solutions for education will showcase the power of 3D printing through the new Sketch Sprint 3D printers, featuring live interactive demos, giveaways, and activities that inspire creativity and bring ideas to life.
• New York Aquarium: Shark Research Table: Learn how scientists from the New York Aquarium study sharks in the wild. Practice your data collection skills just like our shark researchers and dig through sand to find real shark teeth!
• ROBOFUN: Experiment with a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces. Among many other projects, there will be a remote-controlled car, dance robots, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, circuitry station, video game creation software stations, and more. Come join in to engage with all these projects and see what you can make!
• Nauticos: Nauticos is a world expert on the process of navigation track reconstruction (Renavigation) and in deep ocean search operations, providing ocean technology services to government, science, and industry. Visitors will learn how Nauticos, in partnership with the Seaword Foundation, is solving the Amelia Earhart Mystery with science & technology.
• The RoHawks, FIRST Robotics: Join the RoHawks, a high school robotics team, to explore electrical engineering through simple circuits, meet and drive our robot, and learn about how you can get involved with STEM and engineering opportunities for all ages!
• Columbia’s Society of Women Engineers: Come test your engineering skills and design paper boats to float on water.
• Innovators Inc.: How does an airplane fly, really? We know it’s got wings and an engine. We know that a pilot sits in the cockpit and moves the controls around. But what’s really going on? Meet David Simpson, innovator and founder, and come pilot the Hydrodynamic Flight Simulator yourself and see how energy is transferred from the engine to the plane as airspeed, how airspeed is turned into altitude. Take off, climb, cruise, descend, and land. With just water. Really.
• Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Families can join Brooklyn Robot Foundry to learn about circuitry and build a wiggly little robot.
• Zonta International: Building a better world for women and girls: learn about the life of Amelia Earhart and aviation by mapping her flights, and by participating in arts activities, an interactive drama,  experiments with air pressure and take a photo with Amelia.

10:00am-4:30pm: Intrepid Museum Education Maker Zone Mission Medallions: Create a mission medallion that commemorates a future voyage to space.

11:30am-3:30pm: Aircraft Talks: Visitors can go inside the Intrepid Museum’s Aircraft Restoration Hangar on the flight deck and hear a discussion on the process of restoring and preserving aircraft on display at the Museum (approx. 20-minutes, on the half hour). Location: Flight Deck

Noon: Intrepid Museum Education Demonstration Airheads: Science of Flight: Learn about the physics behind every aircraft’s journey through the sky.

12:30pm & 2:30pm: Tales and Talks: Join our knowledgeable Visitor Experience Specialists for tales and talks! From stories about the Intrepid’s crew to tales about other planets, and everywhere in between, these talks will expand your experience at the Intrepid Museum! Offered daily at 12:30pm and 2:30pm in Hangar 2.

1:00pm: Mad Science Presents: Big Top Science: Come one, come all and behold: the science circus is about to begin! Step into our three rings of fun as we present a series of chemistry and physics demonstrations that explain how a bed of nails can provide a great night’s sleep and how crucial balance is for a tightrope walker. You’ll be amazed as we hatch our super-secret “Snooberfish” eggs and perform an incredible high dive that won’t make a splash!

2:00pm: NY Aquarium Presents: Meet two live ocean invertebrates and learn about the threats they face, as well as their crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems.  

3:00pm: Mad Science Presents: Big Top Science: Come one, come all and behold: the science circus is about to begin! Step into our three rings of fun as we present a series of chemistry and physics demonstrations that explain how a bed of nails can provide a great night’s sleep and how crucial balance is for a tightrope walker. You’ll be amazed as we hatch our super-secret “Snooberfish” eggs and perform an incredible high dive that won’t make a splash!  

4:00pm: NY Aquarium Presents: Meet two live ocean invertebrates and learn about the threats they face, as well as their crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. 

*American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for select stage presentations.