August 2010 Discover.e
VOTE FOR KIDS
Pepsi Refresh Project: Inspire a love of science in Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo kids
Each month, The Pepsi Refresh program accepts 1,000 ideas that benefit the community and posts them on its website. The projects that receive the most votes win. Our project was chosen and is entered under the “Education” category. We will receive $5,000 to carry it out if we are one of the Top 10 Projects. But before we can help the Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo kids, we need your help.
You can help by voting for our project!
We are currently ranked in 31st place. Only the top 10 vote getters receive funding.
You can vote 3 ways:
1. Click on the Vote Now button below that will take you straight to the Pepsi Refresh page.
2. Text 101137 to PEPSI (73774) – Regular text messaging rates apply.
3. Log in through your facebook account and vote that way.
Help us spread the word!
Tell your family and friends to log onto http://www.refresheverything.com and vote for our project. Don’t forget to vote every day through August 31, 2010. For more information about the Imagination Station Pepsi Refresh project, please visit imaginationstationtoledo.org
The BIG DIG: Footprints to Fossils
Goes Extinct – September 6, 2010. See it before it’s gone!
It’s a summer of discovery as we explore fossils! We’re digging up bones, reconstructing skeletons and testing your dinosaur knowledge. Visitors can dig through local Devonian era shale and find fossils that they can keep. They can make fossil rubbings, excavate bones and reconstruct dinosaurs. They can even spend some time exploring our interactive maze. Answer the questions right and find your way out. This summer we put the ROAR back in dinosaur!
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010
1:00PM
Special Guest: The Butterfly House
Representatives from The Butterfly House in Whitehouse, Ohio will be at Imagination Station sharing interesting facts about butterflies during a demonstration in the Extreme Science Theater. Learn about a butterflies life cycle, what they eat, where they live and how they came to be called ‘butterflies’. Afterward, spend some time visiting a few butterflies and caterpillars close up!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010
NOON – 5:00PM
H2OOOOOOOh! Rocket Challenge
Discover the Engineer within…
This exciting science challenge, brought to Imagination Station by The Blade, gives kids of all ages the opportunity to design and build their own rocket. We’ll provide everything that you need (bottles, paper, tape, water, etc), you just need to bring the idea and the willingness to put it together. If your water rocket hits the target, you’ll be entered to win an awesome science kit!
Want to construct a rocket before you visit? Here’s how!
For more information on water rockets:
http://www.lnhs.org/hayhurst/rockets/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Soda-Bottle-Water-Rocket/
http://www.tclauset.org/21_BtlRockets/BTL.html
Sponsored by:
Bottles donated by:
Plastic Technologies, Inc.
Coming October 2, 1010
The exhibition immerses visitors in the magnificence and mystery of the Hubble mission. A scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope is the focal point of the installation. “Satellite” units incorporate hands-on activities about how the telescope works, and a “Space/Time” section features Hubble’s contributions to the exploration of planets, stars, galaxies and the universe.
