Feb. 2012 - Miss Mary's Healthy Kids Hut Contest!
Feb. 2012 - Miss Celia's STEM - NanoTech activities
Feb. 2012 - Miss Gloria's Making Pinecone Bird Feederst!
Feb. 2012 - Mr. Bill manning our extensive train exhibits!
February
2012 Winter Break Activities..
at
The Children's Museum, 311 Main Street, Utica, NY
February 18-25, 2012 –
(9:30am-12:30pm - closed Wed & Sun) - Download
Winter Break Agenda here
Special Admission: $6. Children 3-17; $7. Seniors/military; $8. Adults (2 years old & under + Members Free) (other coupons not valid with this special reduced admission) * WKTV & WIBX coverage * Rome Sentinel coverage
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2012 WINTER BREAK
ACTIVITIES &
Photos below
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Register
for our March 31st 2011 Science & Tech Fair here
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Feb. 2012 - Miss Mary's Healthy Kids Hut Contest! |
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Feb. 2012 - Miss Celia's STEM - NanoTech activities |
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Feb. 2012 - Miss Gloria's Making Pinecone Bird Feederst! |
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Feb. 2012 - Mr. Bill manning our extensive train exhibits! |
Saturday,
Feb. 18th - Open 9:30a-12:30p
9:30a-11:00p - Lego Bldg Contest (3rd fl); LED Play Dance Floor contest (2nd
fl);
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
fl);
11:30a-11:45a - Learn how we care for fish, insects, reptiles, critters (3rd
fl)
Monday,
Feb. 20th -Open 9:30a-12:30p
9:30a -11:00p - Presidential quiz contest (all floors)
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
fl);
10:45am – Press Conference: Ribbon Cutting on new Overhead Train exhibit
(4th fl) -Media invited * View
Video!
Tuesday,
Feb. 21st: Open 9:30a-12:30p
10:00a-11:00a - Kids Healthy Hut "Be a Fit Kid Contest" (1st floor);
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
fl);
11:30a-11:45a - Learn how we care for fish, insects, reptiles, beehive, critters
(3rd fl)
Thursday,
Feb. 23rd: - Open 9:30a-12:30p
10:00a-11:00a - MVCC Engineering Club's "Knowing Nano-Tech" activity
(3rd fl);
10:00a-11:00a
- Kids Healthy Hut "Be a Fit Kid Contest" (1st floor);
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
floor);
11:30a-11:45a - Learn how we care for fish, insects, reptiles, beehive, critters
(3rd fl)
Friday,
Feb. 24th: - Open 9:30a-12:30p
10:00a-11:00a - Make pinecone bird feeders to take home & hang on a tree
(3rd fl);
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
fl);
11:30a-11:45a - Learn how we care for fish, insects, reptiles, beehive, critters
(3rd fl)
Saturday:
Feb. 25th: Open 9:30a-12:30p
9:30a -11:00p - NASA Space & Black History Month Quizzes (pickup in bookshelf
in inner foyer)
10:45a-11:15a - Operating Trains; 'Piloting' real Airplane; Space Scale (4th
fl);
11:30a-11:45a – Watching us feed Hank the Snake his weekly lunch! (3rd
fl)
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Photos of Winter Break Week 2011 below
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 Feb. 2011 - MVCC Engineering Club's Chromatography activity |
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 Feb. 2011 - MVCC Criminology class DNA Fingerprinting |
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 Feb. 2011 - Deputy Sheriff Pete educates & entertains! |
 Feb. 2011 - enjoying the wall of interactive trains, running from N trains to HO trains to Lionel trains, plus artifacts & photos! |
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 Feb. 2011 - L. Ceramic Village; Above; Thomas the Train |
 Feb. 2011 - Above, new interactive Hot Wheels; Right, Legos fun |
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 Feb. 2011 - Exploring the NASA & Science exhibits |
 Feb. 2011 - Miss Merry's "Cleaning Green" activity |
 Feb. 2011 - Deputy Pete's "Stranger Danger/Bullying" activity |
 Feb. 2011 - Oneida County Sheriff's office Kid Safety ID |
 Feb. 2011 -Above & Below, NYSERDA Energy Smart Students teacher workshops |
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PLUS
additional activities/exhibits on our four floors on:
Every Day We're Open:
1st floor: interactive Fun on our two-story Exploration Space & PlaySpace;
2nd floor: interactive fun on our LED
Play Dance Floor & Dinosaur area;
3rd floor: interactive fun in our Living Science Area + our Legoes & Trains
4th floor: interactive Airplane Rides + HO & Lionel trains + Sheriff's
activities
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February 2010: The Children’s Museum of History, Science & Technology at 311 Main St, Utica, NY features 100’s of interactive exhibits in 60 Pavilions on 4 floors combine education w/entertainment to understand our past & prepare for our future. Consider us for tax benefit planning! Among
the 100’s of interactive exhibits in 60 pavilions on our 4 floors
are: CM Science Saturday's: join us for hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) activities 11:00a- 12:00p! Includes Miss Celia’s MVCC nano-tech team; Josh’s Komputers/ Robots; Mary’s Merry Greening; Johnny Green Thumb’s planting, Brad’s Critter Care/Science Exhibits.With the US ranked 35th in Math & 29th in Science worldwide, and as the only museum adopted by both NASA & the Office of Science, we’re helping create a new generation of innovators. Check
out/Schedule REDUCED 2011 FIELD TRIP GROUP RATES to Children’s Museum.
Registration forms & add’l info on all these events on museum
website! www.museum4kids.net |
February 2010 Winter Break week photos follow
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 Feb. 2010 Josh Glassberg presents Kids Komputers: kids digging in to take apart computers & learn what the insides were all about! |
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 Feb. 2010 - Jeanette Swiderski presents Kindermusik! |
 Feb. 2010 the OC Sheriff's conducting Kids I.D. program |
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 Feb. '2010 - WKTV Meteorologist Bill Kardas presents Weather Room program |
 Princeton Plasma Lab's John DeLooper returns to the Children's Museum & enthralls crowds of visitors with his Fun Plasma Science Toys |
* View 2009 Winter Break pictures below
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 Feb. '09 - Oneida County Sheriff's conduct a Kids Safety program via fingerprint I. D. w/parents |
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 Feb. '09 Regent Broadcasting Engineer Tim Perry |
 ...presents program in our live Radio Room! |
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 Feb. '09 - youngsters enjoyed the Musical Mats program, presented by Museum staff on our 2nd floor stage area |
 Feb. '09 - children being a Jr. DG w/museum staff, Miss Theresa, in our 3rd floor's "live" radio room |
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Feb. '09 - Princeton Plasma Lab's John DeLooper returns to the Children's Museum & enthralls crowds of visitors with his Fun Plasma Science Toys |
2008 Winter Break pictures below
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 Feb. '07 - Parents Russ & Josephine Grogan with grandparents & grandchildren at Opening of the Hess collectable trucks on the museum's 3rd floor |
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 Above: richard Mitchell with his cousin Jason (photo submitted by his Mom). Right: Grampa (who lovingly bought the trucks each year) with a great-grandson at CM opening |
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 Kids asked questions, contributed information, and had a great time learning in our weather room! |
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 Feb. '07- Grand Opening of our NetSmartz Room, donated by local Chapt of Missing & Exploited Children |
 Feb. '07 - Oneida County Sheriff's conduct a Kids I. D. |
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 Feb. '07 - Ed Waszkiewicz presents Water Safety program |
Feb. '07 - Joe Bourke presents Radio DJ program in our CM Radio Room, donated by Regent Broadcasting |
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 Part of the awesome exhibit on "The Cradle of Baseball in Congressional District 23" |
 Featuring CNY baseball players who made it big, donated by retired Congressman Sherry Boehlert |
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View February 2006 Winter Break Pictures
below
 Amanda Gabeler, WKTV's Chief Meteorologist, enthralls visitors with her presentation on Weather Phenomenon & Predicting |
 Kids asked questions, contributed information, and had a great time learning and exploring in our weather room! |
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 Allan Lang, of Lang's Fossils, donates a large meteorite to the Children's Museum. It was found in 1576 in Argentina and weighs 165 pounds. |
 Kids get a chance to touch it! Meteorites are bits of the solar system that have fallen to the Earth |
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 Grampa poses with his grandchildren under the Pteranodon he created for the museum, a flying reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs |
 Taking "rides" in the airplane on our 4th floor, donated by the late Ted Kibiuk, always remains a great favorite! |
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Right: John DeLooper demonstrates his latest exhibit donation to the museum, "The Flying Ring" with Executive Director Marlene Brown |
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 Kids Safety by Kathy Slocum, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children & Fred Lomanto, Oneida County Sheriff's Deputy |
 Dog Care by Deanne Balutis, Stevens Swan Bd Chair |
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 Paint/Design a Bird House & Making Dream Catchers with museum educators, always popular fun activities! |
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 Princeton Plasma Lab's John DeLooper returns to the Children's Museum once again - enthralls crowds of visitors with his Fun Plasma Science Toys |
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February 2005 Winter Break Pictures Go to Top
 Science fun with Plasma toys by John DeLooper, Princeton Plasma Lab |
 Kids of all ages enjoyed John's Plasma Science Toys |
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 Native American Storytelling in our Iroquois Longhouse |
 An eager overflow crowd enjoyed building their birdhouses |
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 Collecting Toy Cars with Hot Wheels author Mike Zarnock |
Dog Care w/Deanne Balutis, StevensSwan Bd Chair |
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 Internet Safety with Jim Buyea, USC’s Director of IT |
 Microbes: Nasty Guys or Helpers in Disguise by Jen Herzog, HCCC Bio Professor |
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 Sally Buyea teaches them how to make dreamcatchers |
 Kids Safety by Kathy Slocum, Center & Ride for Missing Children |
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 Fun with The Basics of Remote Control, with Ed Moore: above & right They learned how and did it themselves! |
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 Youngsters enjoyed the Magic of Finger Painting |
 in our Arts & Crafts area with educator Dan |
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 Our Living Science area exhibit attracted many |
 Having fun while learning... |
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 Exploring all the hands-on exhibits |
 Rowing & biking in our Intl Halls of Fame |
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 Checking out our Animal/ Insect room |
 Hank the Snake stuck up his head to say hello! |
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 Our interactive train tables are always a draw |
 As are our legoes tables for kids of all ages |
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 Our 2nd floor Musical Stage exhibits get a workout |
 One of our creepy crawlies, loved by the kids! |
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 Rocky the Turtle |
 One of our fish tanks |
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 New energy efficient windows make our building shine! |
 RigAll hauls up our newly donated carriage & buggy |
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