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SCIENCE CARNIVALBEN FRANKLIN PARKWAYAPRIL 28 | 10 AM–4 PM

April 28, 2018

April 28, 2018

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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ONLINE STORECan’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 carnival18 for 15% off your purchase.

THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING

SPONSORS!

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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

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/wetter Philadelphia.

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Don’t miss this space featuring activities for our tiniest scientists!

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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 long! 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 SHOWDOWN: TEAM EDITION!The Franklin Institute proudly presents Science Showdown! From the opening bell, our sci-athletes will explain the science behind a series of dynamic demonstrations. The referee will administer fouls as necessary and the audience will determine the winner.

DEMOS AT 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, & 2:30 PM AT PARKWAY STAGE ZONE 1

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. 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 4 and ZONE 6

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

SCIENCE CARNIVAL INFORMATION

Deke’s Food TruckDre’s Water Ice & Ice CreamGood Mood TruckKono PizzaLi Ping Corn Company

Lil’ Pop ShopLil Trent’s GrilleNick’s Roast BeefPbon’s Fresh PhoodPhilly FryPhyllodelphia Greek and MediterraneanPink’s Cold Treats

The Cow and The CurdThe Little Sicilian RiceballsThe Spicy BellyThe Tot CartWaffles & Wedges

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Tot Lot is made possible by

BOOTH NAME (in alphabetical order by organization) FOR AGES

500 Women Scientists Philly Pod: Whose poo is whose? 2 Elementary & Above

AACR: What can your DNA tell you about cancer? 3 Everyone

Academy of Natural Sciences: Can you hack it? 6 Everyone

Academy of Natural Sciences: Did Old McT. Rex have a farm? 6 Pre-K/ Tiny Tots

AECOM: How do bridges work? 3 Elementary & Above

Agora Cyber Charter School: How does thermochromism work? 2 Everyone

Air Management Services: How clean is the air you breathe? 5 Everyone

American Helicopter Museum & Education Center: How do helicopters fly? 5 Everyone

American Philosophical Society: What’s static electricity got to do with it? 5 Elementary

& Above

American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science– Pennsylvania (ASCLS-PA): What is a medical laboratory scientist?

3 Elementary & Above

American Society of Naval Engineers: How do naval engineers use video game simulations? 5 Elementary

& Above

American Welding Society, Foundation: How does welding connect the world? 1 Everyone

Audubon Pennsylvania: What part of a tropical rainforest can you find in Philly? 5 Everyone

Axalta Coating Systems: How quickly can you detect colors? 2 Everyone

Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute & Delaware Valley Paleonto-logical Society: Rock or dinosaur–how can you tell? 6 Elementary

& Above

Braskem: How does plastic improve your life? 5 Elementary & Above

Center for Aquatic Sciences at Adventure Aquarium: What’s the trouble with turtles? 5 Elementary

& Above

Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project: What can you see on the sun? 5 Everyone

Poison Control Center: Can you identify poisons in nature? 2 Everyone

Vaccine Education Center: How was the first vaccine made? 2 Elementary

& Above

How do I stay healthy? 2 Everyone

What did you say? 2 Everyone

What makes your heart beat? 2 Everyone

Citizens’ Climate Lobby: Where does all your home’s energy go? 5 Elementary

& Above

City of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability: How can we prepare for a hotter Philadelphia? 5 Everyone

Clean Air Council: What do safe, sustainable streets look like? 5 Everyone

Commonwealth Charter Academy: How does your brain communicate with your body? 2 Everyone

Community College of Philadelphia: Can you find the acids in your kitchen? 2 Elementary

& Above

Coriell Institute for Medical Research: What does DNA look like? 1 Elementary

& Above

Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America: Can your robot find the treasure? 2 Elementary

& Above

Delaware Estuary: What animal cleans water better than a filter? 5 Everyone

Design Science: What’s the science of Human Factors? 2 Everyone

Destination Imagination: Can you save the grape? 3 Elementary & Above

DHHS/ Food and Drug Administration: How do germs travel? 6 Everyone

Dow: Where can science take you? 4 Everyone

Drexel U and Philadelphia Society of Women Engineers: How is hand lotion different from salad dressing? 6 Everyone

DragonsTeach: What’s that sound? 6 Elementary & Above

Physics Graduate Student Association: Can you be a physicist? 6 Everyone

TechServ: How does a computer work? 6 Elementary & Above

Can you make plastic powder bounce? 6 Elementary & Above

ECA–Energy Coordinating Agency: How do you conserve energy in your home? 5 Everyone

EMD Performance Materials Corporation: What does a car of the future look like? 5 Elementary

& Above

EMD Performance Materials Corporation: When should you wear sunscreen? 5 Elementary

& Above

Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia: What do engineers do? 2 Everyone

Esperanza College: How does oxygen move through your body? 2 Middle Sch.

& Above

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center: How are mussels clean water engineers? 5 Everyone

FIRST AID 2 Everyone

FMC: How do we power a growing world? 3 Everyone

Fouryouth Productions: What makes your clothes colorful? 5 Elementary & Above

Free Library of Philadelphia: Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? 6 Elementary & Above

Germantown Academy: What microscopic organisms live in a creek? 6 Elementary

& Above

GlaxoSmithKline: What technology is used to develop medicine? 5 Everyone

Glen Foerd on the Delaware & Camp Little Hope: How can we fight flash flooding? 6 Everyone

Golden Key Russian School: How do you cube a bubble? 5 Everyone

Green Mountain Energy Company: How does wind energy work? 3 Everyone

GSK Science in the Summer and The Franklin Institute: What do you need to survive a moonwalk? 5 Elementary

& Above

Holy Child Academy: What carries a current? 1 Elementary & Above

Independence Seaport Museum: What happens in a watershed? 5 Elementary & Above

INFORMATION & ONLINE STORE 2 Everyone

INFORMATION BOOTH 6 Everyone

iPraxis, Inc.: How well does your blood circulate? 6 Middle Sch. & Above

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge: What’s the buzz about pollinators? 1 Everyone

Kimberly Clark Chester Mill: How is paper made? 6 Everyone

KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy: Can you help a robot navigate? 2 Everyone

La Salle University: How is your skeleton put together? 2 Everyone

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

LNESC: What does a healthy meal look like? 2 Elementary & Above

Mastery Charter School: Is it magic or electrons? 3 Elementary & Above

Merck & Co., Inc.: Which is more dense? 6 Everyone

Moore College of Art and Design: What is the science of color? 6 Elementary

& Above

Mural Arts Philadelphia: What is an antibody? 5 Elementary & Above

New Foundations Charter School: What does STEM look like at New Foundations? 2 Everyone

Nomadic Monument to Women in Robotics: Who are the women pioneering robotics in the 21st century? 4 Everyone

NSS Philadelphia Area Space Alliance: How do we move out into space? 5 Elementary

& Above

PA Virtual Charter School: How do lava lamps work? 1 Elementary & Above

PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts): How can you make paint from eggs? 2 Middle Sch.

& Above

PECO: How can you save energy and money at home? 2 Elementary & Above

PEEP: How do we use and conserve energy? 2 Elementary & Above

PennEnvironment: How can you stop climate change? 5 Everyone

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: How can trees save your birthday party? 5 Everyone

PharmaCadence: How do you weigh a molecule? 6 Middle Sch. & Above

Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild: Why do bees matter? 5 Elementary & Above

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine: What’s bubbling in your brain? 5 Everyone

Philadelphia Department of Public Health: What’s better than a cure? 1 Elementary

& Above

Philadelphia Museum of Art: What do scientists and conservators do at an art museum? 6 Everyone

Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society: How does water become slime? 6 Everyone

Philadelphia Solar Energy Association: Is the sun a racing fuel? 3 Elementary & Above

PJM Interconnection: How do we keep the lights on? 6 Everyone

Please Touch Museum: How can we explore science through play? 6 Everyone

PNC Grow Up Great: What can you construct? 6 Pre-K/Tiny Tots

PNC Grow Up Great: Where’s the science in your story book? 6 Pre-K/Tiny Tots

Power Home Remodeling: How can siding keep your house cool? 1 Everyone

Princeton University Graduate Molecular Biology Outreach Program (GMOP): Why does soap make milk move? 3 Elementary

& Above

Reach Cyber Charter School: Does your flip flop? 3 Everyone

Renewal by Andersen: What makes a good window? 3 Elementary & Above

Riverbend Environmental Education Center: How can fish fuel a farm? 5 Everyone

Rowan College at Burlington County: Can you practice astronomy during the day? 2 Everyone

Cooper Medical School: What’s inside your skull? Elementary & Above

Can you design a flotation device? 2 Everyone

How do forensic scientists dust for fingerprints? 2 Elementary & Above

How do sumo-fighting robots control themselves? 2 Elementary & Above

What processes alter the surface of our planet? 2 Elementary & Above

What reptiles can you find? 2 Everyone

Where is the science in exercise? 2 Everyone

Saint Joseph’s University–Molloy Chemical Society: How do diapers stop leaks? 2 Elementary

& Above

Saint Joseph’s University–The McNulty Scholars Program: Can you make DNA? 2 Elementary

& Above

Salus University: What are speech-language disorders? 5 Elementary & Above

Salus University: What do you see and hear? 5 Elementary & Above

SciStarter: How can your cloud-watching help NASA? 3 Everyone

SEPTA: What are the health benefits of riding SEPTA? 3 Everyone

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company: How can helicopter parts be built using G-code? 5 Middle

& Above

Spells Writing Lab: How does science make superheroes? 6 Elementary & Above

Springside Chestnut Hill Academy: How does chemistry run the world? 6 Everyone

STEM Scouts: Can you control a vortex? 6 Everyone

TechGirlz: What’s inside a computer? 6 Elementary & Above

College of Education–Temple Teacher Residency: Where are the hidden colors in your life? 1 Everyone

College of Engineering: What is engineering in action? 1 Everyone

College of Liberal Arts and College of Science and Technology: How are you connected to the world around you? 1 Everyone

College of Liberal Arts–Developmental Science Lab: How does your brain recognize your own body? 1 Everyone

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College of Science & Technology–STEM Teach Society: Can you do science with your smartphone? 1 Everyone

College of Science & Technology–STEM Teach Society: Can you make light without heat? 1 Everyone

College of Science & Technology–STEM Teach Society: How can you use air to make quicksand? 1 Everyone

College of Science & Technology–STEM Teach Society: How does STEM support the Navy? 1 Everyone

College of Science & Technology–STEM Teach Society: What’s keeping you from strolling down our science boardwalk?

1 Everyone

College of Science and Technology–Summer Programs: Can you make a space suit? 1 Everyone

Cognition and Learning Lab: How can I improve my spatial skills? 1 Everyone

The Baldwin School: How high can your rocket fly? 5 Elementary & Above

The Boeing Company: How do rotorcrafts fly? 2 Everyone

The Franklin Institute and Drexel University: What’s so big about super small science? 5 Everyone

The Franklin Institute and University of Pennsylvania: What’s so big about super small science? 5 Everyone

PACTS Program: How does a 3-D printed robotic arm work? 5 Everyone

Are you prepared for a wetter Philadelphia? 5 Everyone

What’s up? 5 Everyone

The Mobile CPR Project: What happens when your heart stops? 3 Middle

& Above

The Pennsylvania Society for Biomedical Research (PSBR): How can animals save your life? 6 Everyone

The Philadelphia Water Department: How can you protect your drinking water? 5 Everyone

The Philadelphia Zoo: Who’s who at the Zoo? 5 Everyone

The Phillies: Can you find the sweet spot? 6 Everyone

The Planetary Society: What gives a planet its color? 6 Elementary & Above

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

& Above

The Wistar Institute: How can you train your immune system to fight cancer and infections? 5 Elementary

& Above

Are you safety ready for summer? 5 Elementary & Above

Can you hear the sound of science? 5 Elementary & Above

From cells to elephants–what’s cancer got to do with it? 5 Elementary & Above

How do architects design kinetic structures? 5 Middle & Above

How does your amazing human body work? 5 Elementary & Above

How does your body use medications? 5 Elementary & Above

What do you and a strawberry have in common? 5 Elementary & Above

What has more germs than a toilet seat? 5 Elementary & Above

What keeps you balanced? 5 Elementary & Above

Institute of Energy Conversion: What does a solar-powered world look like? 6 Everyone

Materials Research Society: What are hydrogels? 6 Elementary

& Above

What’s amazing about the horseshoe crab? 6 Elementary & Above

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology: How was science used to make ancient adornments? 4 Everyone

Community Engagement Core, Pharmacology, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology: Is lead lurking in your life?

4 Everyone

Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology Graduate Group (CAMB): What can you learn from a model organism?

4 Everyone

Genetics and Epigenetics: How does DNA make you...you? 4 Everyone

Graduate-Led Initiatives and Activities (GLIA) Student Group: How can you improve your memory? 4 Everyone

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM): Can you move a train with magnets? 4 Everyone

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM): How does levitation work? 4 Elementary

& Above

Linguistic Data Consortium: What language is that? 4 Elementary & Above

Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair: Do you mind your brain? 4 Everyone

PEPOPA (Penn’s Education and Public Outreach Group in the Physics and Astronomy Department): How can you see the invisible?

4 Everyone

Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH): Is it science or is it art? 4 Elementary

& Above

SACNAS Chapter (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science): What do bacteria look like?

4 Everyone

How do doctors look inside your body? 4 Everyone

What makes molecules stick together? 4 Everyone

University of the Sciences: How can renewable energy power your life? 5 Everyone

US Forest Service: Do trees get thirsty? 5 Elementary & Above

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