Sunday, June 05 10am to 06pm
Washington Square Park
New York, NY

The World Science Festival takes over Washington Square Park with STREET SCIENCE, a buzzing metropolis of science, technology, engineering, and mathematical explorations. Featuring awe-inspiring, interactive demonstrations, larger than life activities, mind-blowing experiments and live shows, this exhibition unleashes everyone’s inner scientist.

Free and open to all ages. Open rain or shine.

• Hop on a bike and pedal fast to make the Con Edison bulb burn bright.

• Look directly at the sun (safely) with telescopes from Celestron.

• Create human-scale string art, build a huge geometric sculpture, and more with MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics.

• Ride your way into science with Dr. Skateboard, Homage Skateboard Academy and top athletes, as they (and maybe you) kickflip through explorations of motion, inertia and more.

• Kick it with a soccer playing robot and cheer on a few robot soccer matches with the Bowdoin College RoboCup Team.

• Fly a mini-helicopter with your brain and Puzzlebox.

• Peer into microscopes to discover how nature inspires design with the BioBus.

• Build bird beaks to see what makes the best tool with Hypothekids.

• Join Jupiter Joe’s Sidewalk Astronomy and his rover for a trip through a scaled solar system and a microscopic examination of meteors.

• Discover the secret science behind the American Chemical Society’s self-inflating balloons.

• Visualize sound waves and create a custom constellation with the American Museum of Natural History.

• Hold a human brain while the braiNY team fills yours with new facts about how we think.

• Measure fluids, vibrations, and waves that are fundamental to our understanding of the universe with Jim Andrello of Columbia University.

• Drill into ice in search of neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

• Work side by side with scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who study earthquakes, ice sheets, water quality, and volcanoes.

• Take off on one of Liberty Science Center’s powerful paper airplanes and straw rockets.

• Pet a tarantula at the Insects, Arachnids, and Reptiles Petting Zoo hosted by NYU biology student Aaron Rodriquez.

• Head far back in time with LIGO Scientific Collaboration and hear black holes collide.

• Create fabulous pendulum art with Lynn Brunelle.

• Whip up an air cannon vortex ring and blow massive bubbles with New York Hall of Science.

• Put your engineering and robotics skills to the test with NYC FIRST.

• Learn how scientists measure what makes us human in “Mission H.U.M.A.N.” with The Kavli HUMAN Project at New York University.

• Check out the sun with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York.

• Join NYU Women in Science (WINS) for an evolutionary insect discovery tour.

• Create an interactive balancing sculpture using robotics and solar panels at the Portfolio School Maker Space.

• Enjoy the view from a high-altitude balloon with Teachers in Space and Gloversville High School.

• Control colliding beams, tour a particle accelerator, and learn the mysterious powers for electricity and magnetism with the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

• Drive a robot through a survival obstacle course with NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

• Dissect sheep brains with NYU Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki (10:45 AM – 12:45 PM).

• Play your cards right at the American Museum of Natural History’s robot-hosted game center with action-packed games about poisonous snails, microscopic life forms, microbes, and more (1:30 – 5:30 PM).

• Ride a dragon (and experience flight in this virtual reality tour) with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.

• Spin the Fibonacci Galaxy: Experience to create a beautiful interactive art piece with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.

• Create sounds and mist by playing this Foggy Mountain installation with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.

For more information visit: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com