{"id":64382,"date":"2016-06-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=64382"},"modified":"2016-06-01T21:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T01:53:33","slug":"street-science-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=64382","title":{"rendered":"Street Science 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 05  10am to 06pm<br \/>\nWashington Square Park<br \/>\nNew York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/street-sci.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[64382]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/street-sci.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s inner scientist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free and open to all ages. Open rain or shine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Hop on a bike and pedal fast to make the Con Edison bulb burn bright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Look directly at the sun (safely) with telescopes from Celestron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Create human-scale string art, build a huge geometric sculpture, and more with MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Kick it with a soccer playing robot and cheer on a few robot soccer matches with the Bowdoin College RoboCup Team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Fly a mini-helicopter with your brain and Puzzlebox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Peer into microscopes to discover how nature inspires design with the BioBus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Build bird beaks to see what makes the best tool with Hypothekids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Join Jupiter Joe\u2019s Sidewalk Astronomy and his rover for a trip through a scaled solar system and a microscopic examination of meteors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Discover the secret science behind the American Chemical Society\u2019s self-inflating balloons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Visualize sound waves and create a custom constellation with the American Museum of Natural History.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Hold a human brain while the braiNY team fills yours with new facts about how we think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Measure fluids, vibrations, and waves that are fundamental to our understanding of the universe with Jim Andrello of Columbia University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Drill into ice in search of neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Work side by side with scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who study earthquakes, ice sheets, water quality, and volcanoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Take off on one of Liberty Science Center\u2019s powerful paper airplanes and straw rockets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Pet a tarantula at the Insects, Arachnids, and Reptiles Petting Zoo hosted by NYU biology student Aaron Rodriquez.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Head far back in time with LIGO Scientific Collaboration and hear black holes collide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Create fabulous pendulum art with Lynn Brunelle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Whip up an air cannon vortex ring and blow massive bubbles with New York Hall of Science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Put your engineering and robotics skills to the test with NYC FIRST.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Learn how scientists measure what makes us human in \u201cMission H.U.M.A.N.\u201d with The Kavli HUMAN Project at New York University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Check out the sun with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Join NYU Women in Science (WINS) for an evolutionary insect discovery tour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Create an interactive balancing sculpture using robotics and solar panels at the Portfolio School Maker Space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Enjoy the view from a high-altitude balloon with Teachers in Space and Gloversville High School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Control colliding beams, tour a particle accelerator, and learn the mysterious powers for electricity and magnetism with the Brookhaven National Laboratory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Drive a robot through a survival obstacle course with NYU Tandon School of Engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Dissect sheep brains with NYU Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki (10:45 AM \u2013 12:45 PM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Play your cards right at the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s robot-hosted game center with action-packed games about poisonous snails, microscopic life forms, microbes, and more (1:30 \u2013 5:30 PM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Ride a dragon (and experience flight in this virtual reality tour) with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Spin the Fibonacci Galaxy: Experience to create a beautiful interactive art piece with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Create sounds and mist by playing this Foggy Mountain installation with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/programs\/street-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 05 10am to 06pm Washington Square Park New York, 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