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SCIENCE CARNIVALBEN FRANKLIN PARKWAYMAY 4 | 10 AM–4 PM

APRIL 17-24, 2020SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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ONLINE STORE! Can’t get enough of GETTING NERDY? Browse the Philadelphia Science Festival store for all your festival merch needs–and feel great about it, too! Proceeds support opportunities for kids and families in the Philadelphia region to experience hands-on science!

Shop our store at PhilaScienceFestival.org, and use the code carnival19 for 20% off your purchase.

STEAM PROJECTSThe Philadelphia Science Festival knows science is an art, and art is a science–and we are excited to showcase interactive installations created by local artists that highlight the “A” in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math).

Nomadic Monument to Women in Robotics: Who are the women pioneering robotics today? ZONE 1

New Kensington Community Development Corporation: Are you ready for a wacky, wondrous ride? ZONE 1

Blue Sky or Sky Blue? ZONE 2

John Heinz & Spiral Q: Where do butterflies go? (Processions at 1:30 and 3:00 pm) ZONE 5

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GRAND FINALE: TRASH CAN SALUTE!What happens when you try to contain ultra-cold liquid nitrogen as it heats up under thousands of green and black squishy balls? Find out when you join us to close out the Science Carnival on the Parkway with this EPIC explosion of grand proportions!

3:45 PM IN FRONT OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

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The Climate & Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP), a network of local organizations who engage the public on climate change issues, has created a special area called Climate City, where visitors young and old can learn how to prepare for, and prevent, a hotter and wetter Philadelphia. ZONE 5

TOT LOT Don’t miss this space featuring fun activities for our tiniest scientists!ZONE 6

LIVE MUSICThe Lara and Joe Show One of Philadelphia’s favorite bands for high-energy children’s songs and family favorites will be rocking out in the Tot Lot ALL DAY! SCIENCE STORYTIME TENT Join readers from some of your favorite tot-friendly organizations for stories every hour. Each science- themed book comes to life with additional opportunities for age-appropriate exploration.

SCIENCE SUPERHERO SHOW!An evil villain threatened to ruin the Festival, but fear not! The Council of Superhero Scientists has joined forces to defeat this formidable foe using their dynamic and explosive powers.

SHOWS: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM & 2:30 PM IN FRONT OF THE FRANKIN INSTITUTE

COOL DOWN SPACEThe Carnival on the Parkway offers a bustling atmosphere with plenty of fun opportunities, but that can be overwhelming, too! The Cool Down Space offers a quiet environment with tactile tools and a safe place to take a break. Open throughout the Carnival. FREE + LOCATED INSIDE THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

All this science discovery got you hungry? Grab some delicious grub from one of the food trucks on site today! ZONE 7

Need Water? Water stations are located between ZONE 1/ZONE 3 and ZONE 5.

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Authentik ByrekChank’s Pizza ConesDeke’s Food TruckLil Trents Grille

Lil’ Pop ShopNick’s Roast BeefPink’s Cold TreatsChewy’s

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BALLETXBalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet, pops up with a fun, family-friendly performance.1:00 PM IN FRONT OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

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Name of Organization Exhibit Title

500 Women Scientists Philly Pod

Where on Earth would Star Wars animals live? 3

AACR How can you prevent cancer? 1

Academy of Natural Sciences What can you sense at the beach? 6

AECOM How do engineers and scientists lay out roads and railroads? 2

Agora Cyber Charter School What is thermochromism? 2

American Helicopter Museum & Education Center

How do helicopters fly? 1

American Philosophical Society What’s the attraction of compasses? 2

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

What is a gene?6

American Society of Clinical Laboratory Scientists ASCLS-PA

Can you be a medical laboratory scientist? 1

American Society of Naval Engineers

How can you build your own Navy? 5

Andrew Herzog Blue sky or sky blue? 2

Axalta Coating Systems How quickly can you detect colors? 6

Battleship New Jersey What makes a boat float? 2

Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute & Delaware Valley Paleontological Society

Which Founding Fathers were paleontologists?5

Braskem Are you a plastics super hero? 5

Center for Aquatic Sciences at Adventure Aquarium

What’s in your watershed? 5

Central High School RoboLancers

Do you want to drive a robot? 4

The Poison Control Center

How do I know if something is poisonous? 1

Vaccine Education Center

How big are viruses and bacteria? 1

How does my heart beat? 1

What is physical and occupational therapy? 1

Do you hear what I say? 1

How do I stay healthy? 1

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Will summers get hotter in Philadelphia? 5

Clean Air Council How can I improve air quality? 5

Climate Dads Fatherhood and climate: How are caregivers leading by example? 5

College of Physicians PHL What’s the story on vaccines? 1

Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA)

Can you grow vegetables without soil? 7

Community College of Philadelphia

Where are your bones and how do they move? 2

Coriell Institute for Medical Research

What does DNA look like? 3

Delaware Museum of Natural History

How can you save endangered species? 4

Destination Imagination Can you protect a grape from becoming jelly? 5

Dow Where can science take you? 3

DragonsTeach Student Organization

How acidic is your breath? 6

Society of Women Engineers and Drexel Graduate Women in Science and Engineering

How do different polymers behave?6

Techserv Can you turn on the light? 6

Can you make plastic powder bounce? 6

EATON Aerospace What is flowing through an airplane? 2

Edmund Optics Can you create an image with optics? 4

EMD Performance Materials Why should you wear sunscreen? 5

EMD Performance Materials What is photolithography? 5

Engineers Club of Philadelphia What do engineers do? 6

Esperanza College How does oxygen move through your body? 6

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

Rain, runoff, and wastewater - where do they go? 1

Fleming Tech Camps Can you build a virtual amusement park? 4

How do we protect and feed the world? 2

How do farmers use science to increase their yields? 2

What do plants need for growth? 2

How does science protect crops? 2

How do we grow food? 2

How does agriculture bring us together? 2

How do you use science to protect your home? 2

Free Library of Philadelphia What forces objects to flow, fly or ooze? 5

Germantown Academy How can I create colors using chromatography? 2

Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania

What floats your boat? 3

GSK How can artificial intelligence help to discover new medicines? 5

Glen Foerd Will it sink or float? 5

GLIST - Girls Lead in Science and Technology

How can you code a computer game? 2

GLIST - Girls Lead in Science and Technology

How do you tell a computer to draw? 2

Green Philly Are you a recycling superstar? 5

Independence Blue Cross How can a fruit ninja predict the future? 6

Independence Seaport Museum Who lives in our watershed? 5

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge

What is the buzz with pollinators? 5

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge

Where do monarch butterflies go? 5

Janssen What does it take to make a new medicine? 4

Johnson & Johnson Do you have a future as a surgeon or scientist? 4

Kimberly Clark Chester Mill How is paper made? 6

LaSalle University How does your stomach work? 1

LaSalle University What’s in our soil? 1

Let’s Go Outdoors What are (water) ways to go outdoors? 6

LNESC Philadelphia What does a healthy meal look like? 4

Lockheed Martin What the tech is going on? 5

Main Line Parent & Philadelphia Family

How do you make your own invisible ink? 2

Materials Research Society How does materials science affect your life? 6

Merck & Co., Inc. Who has the antibodies to the Achoo Virus? 2

Moore College of Art and Design How do you create a fantastic fractal? 6

Mural Arts Philadelphia How do you make art with an aerosol can? 2

New Foundations Charter School

How do simple machines make the world move? 6

New Kensington Community Development Corporation

Are you ready for a wacky, wondrous ride? 2

Nomadic Monument for Women in Robotics

Who are the women pioneering robotics today? 1

NSS Philadelphia Area Space Alliance

Are you ready for the space age? 2

PA Virtual Charter School How do lava lamps work? 1

PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)

How can you turn old paper into new paper? 1

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

What animal cleans water like a filter? 6

PennEnvironment How can we take action to fight climate change? 5

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

How can trees save Sadie’s birthday party? 5

Pennsylvania Intergrated Pest Management Program/Penn State

How will pests be affected by climate change?5

Pharmacadence Analytical Services, LLC

How do you weigh a molecule? 4

Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild What’s the buzz about bees? 1

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

What’s bubbling in your brain? 1

Philadelphia Department of Public Health

What’s better than a cure? 1

Philadelphia Energy Authority How do you go solar at home in Philadelphia? 5

Philadelphia Office of Sustainability

Why are some Philly neighborhoods hotter than others? 5

Philadelphia Section of American Chemical Society

How can you use chemistry to make art? 1

Philadelphia Society of Women Engineers

How do planes fly? 3

Philadelphia Solar Energy Association

Is the sun a racing fuel? 3

Philadelphia Water Department

How can you protect your drinking water source? 5

PHL Life Sciences in partnership with iPraxis Incorporated

What makes a scraped knee stop bleeding? 2

Physics Graduate Student Association

What does a physicist do? 6

PJM Interconnection LLC How does the electric grid work? 2

Please Touch Museum How do you innovate? 6

PNC What can you construct? 6

Princeton Graduate Molecular Biology Outreach Program (Princeton GMOP)

Why does hydrogen peroxide bubble?1

REACH Cyber Charter School Does your flip flop? 2

Riverbend Environmental Education Center

What happened to the missing AquaBirds? 5

College of Education Can you design a flotation device? 4

College of Performing Arts Can we measure music? 4

Cooper Medical School What’s inside your skull? 4

Department of Biological Sciences

What reptiles can you find? 4

Department of Health and Exercise Science

Where is the SCIENCE in exercise? 4

Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering

Can robots wrestle? 4

School of Earth and Environment

What processes alter the surface of our planet? 4

School of Osteopathic Medicine

What can you find in a Rowan University research lab? 4

STEAM Academy How can hair and fabric fibers solve a crime scene? 4

Why are nurses superheroes? 3

How do we study brains? 3

What makes the world work? 3

What is the science of art? 3

What happens when bubbles don’t pop? 3

Do strawberries have DNA? 3

What makes you unique? 3

Saint Joseph’s University - McNulty Scholars Program & Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School

How do you make DNA?4

Saint Joseph’s University - Molloy Society

How do diapers stop leaks? 4

Salus University How good are your senses? 1

SciStarter What is citizen science? 2

SEPTA Can you navigate a bus through Philadelphia? 7

Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum

How can air power overcome air resistance? 1

STEM Scouts Can you control a VORTEX? 3

TechGirlz What’s inside a computer? 3

Technically Media (Philly Tech Week)

How can you make a video game? 2

College of Science & Technology - TUteach

What is keeping you from strolling down our science boardwalk? 5

College of Engineering What’s the engineering secret code? 5

College of Liberal Arts - Developmental Science Lab

How does your brain recognize your body? 5

College of Liberal Arts Cognition & Learning Lab

How can I improve my spatial skills? 5

College of Liberal Arts Department of Psychology

What’s behind the mystery of magnets? 5

College of Liberal Arts Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Program

How does your brain help you learn motor skills? 5

College of Science & Technology - Physics Department

How can sound be used to levitate objects?5

College of Science & Technology - STEM Teach Society

How can you do science with your smartphone?5

College of Science & Tech-nology - Summer Programs

How can you make a space suit? 5

College of Science & Tech-nology & Hovione LLC

How do you make a chemical reaction rainbow? 5

College of Science & Technology & Leadership Education & Development in Science (LEADS)

Can you make bubbles with dry ice?5

College of Science & Technology & Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadel-phia Division (NSWCPD)

How does STEM support the Navy?5

Summer Programs How can we garden with seed balls? 5

The Baldwin School How do YOU see yourself in STEM? 1

The Boeing Company What is a Mars habitat like? 5

The Boeing Company Can you build a flying machine? 5

The Energy Co-op What is renewable energy? 1

Science Storytime 6

What would life on a moon colony be like? 5

What can you see in the sky today? 6

Are you prepared for a wetter Philadelphia? 5

What is a house envelope? 5

With Drexel University What’s so big about super small science? 5

With University of Pennsylvania

What’s so big about super small science? 5

The Homesteadista Can kids design a green city? 4

The Mobile CPR Project How does CPR work to save a life? 3

The Pennsylvania Society for Biomedical Research (PSBR)

How do animals help biomedical scientists save lives? 6

The Philadelphia Zoo Who’s who at the Zoo? 4

The Phillies How do angles affect the game of baseball? 2

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

How is a small, green insect impacting Philadelphia’s trees? 3

The Tesla Science Foundation How can you see Tesla’s science? 2

The Wistar Institute How do we fight infectious diseases and cancer? 6

What keeps you balanced? 5

What’s going on inside your brain? 5

What has more germs than a toilet seat? 5

From cells to elephants: What’s cancer got to do with it? 5

Take a look inside your genes: What’s behind the science of genetics? 5

What do you and a strawberry have in common? 5

Can you fill pills like a pharmacist? 5

Can you hear the sound of science? 5

What’s inside the human body? 5

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

How quickly do germs travel? 6

U.S. Forest Service Do trees get thirsty? 5

University of Delaware - Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

How do chemical engineers create your favorite products? 2

University of Delaware - Institute of Energy Conversion

What does a solar-powered world look like? 2

Activities for Community Education in Science, Department of Chemistry, School of Arts & Sciences

What makes molecules stick together?2

Cancer Biology Graduate Group

How does sunlight contribute to skin cancer? 6

Center for Brain Injury and Repair

Why should you mind your brain? 2

Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine

How does your DNA help make medicine specific for you? 2

GRASP Lab, School of Engineering and Applied Science

How will robots change society?2

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter

How does levitation work? 2

Neuroscience Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine

How do we remember?2

Museum of Anthropology and Archeology

How was science used to make ancient adornments? 2

University of the Sciences What will throw you for a loop? 2

WHYY Are you ready to go with Jet? 6

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