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World''s Longest Rubber Band Chain

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

World's Longest Rubber Band Chain
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: World’s Longest Rubber Band Chain

We don’t think it’s a stretch — we can do it! Help us beat the world record for the longest rubber band chain. The current record is 19 miles – we hope to get 22.

Rubber Bands donated by Staples

The Best of the EcoStation

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

The Best of the EcoStation
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Butterfly Bracelets: Visitors create a bracelet with the butterfly life cycle depicted on it.
Red Eared Slider Sleuth: Visitors do a puzzle using natural history clues of red-eared sliders
A field guide to Houston birds: Visitors create a field guide of native Houston birds.

Exhibit: EcoStation

Science Station Favorites

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Science Station Favorites
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Come discover some science station favorites with these fun and exciting activities. They definitely prove that science is number one in our hearts.

1. Marble Maze - Visitors use simple machines like inclined planes in order to build some extraordinary structures. Race your marble down a variable structure and problem-solve areas to create awesome twists and turns.

2. Gear Mania - Visitors will build structures using various types of gears.

3. Balloon Rockets - Design a rocket to launch with balloons as “fuel” to explore how the 3rd law of motion, action and reaction, allows a rocket to launch.

4. Motion Picture - Create a thaumatrope—an optical-illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one.

Exhibit: How Does It Work - Science Station

Eat This, Not That

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Eat This, Not That
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Visitors participate in a game to learn which food choices are healthier.

Exhibit: PowerPlay - Power Science Lab

Magnetic Mazes

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Magnetic Mazes
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 10:30 AM
End Time: Mar 17, 2010 5:30 PM
Event Details:

This workshop encourages imagination, engineering and eye-hand coordination! Visitors design, then build, their very own labyrinth out of cardboard. Then, using magnetic marbles, they guide the marbles through the maze using a magnet underneath their maze, They can go back and modify their design until they have invented the perfect maze!

Time

10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Exhibit: Invention Convention - Inventors' Workshop

Happy Birthday CMH!

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Happy Birthday CMH!
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 1:00 PM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Kick off CMH's first birthday with a blast! We'll have a giant cake, cupcake shades, party hats, birthday traditions from around the world and our favorites like Balloon Rockets, Gear Mania, Magnetic Mazes and more!

Giant Birthday Cake

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Giant Birthday Cake
Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 1:00 PM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Join DJ ZIN and the DG crew for a Fan-tab-u-lous Happy Birthday dance Party.

Time: 1 PM

Location: Kids' Hall Alcove

World''s Longest Paper Pi Chain

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

World's Longest Paper Pi Chain
Start Date: Mar 14, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 14, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: World’s Longest Paper Pi Chain

Happy Pi Day! Imagine a chain made of paper loops about seven football fields long, each labeled with one digit of the infinite, non-repeating number pi (3.14…). That’s what you need to help us beat!

Exhibit: Junktion

Eat this, not that

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Eat this, not that
Start Date: Mar 14, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 14, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Visitors participate in a game to learn which foods are the healthier choices.

Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight in U.S.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:45:00 GMT

Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight in U.S.
Start Date: Mar 14, 2010 1:45 PM
End Time: Mar 14, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight in U.S.

Watch local math and science teachers duke it out in a (Pi)-induced frenzy. Could this be the great American pie battle?

Directly after the pie fight, we will have portable pudding pies for all visitors. Visitors will make a chocolate or vanilla pie in celebration of Pi Day.

Event time: 1:59 PM

Location: Courtyard

Story Time

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:30:00 GMT

Story Time
Start Date: Mar 15, 2010 8:30 AM
End Time: Mar 15, 2010 5:30 PM
Event Details:

11am, 1pm, 3pm

Most Flubber Made in a Day

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Most Flubber Made in a Day
Start Date: Mar 15, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 15, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: Most Flubber Made in a Day

Help us set a world record by making fun, playful goo. Lots and lots of it!

Location: Courtyard

Eat this, not that

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Eat this, not that
Start Date: Mar 15, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 15, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Visitors participate in a game to learn which foods are the healthier choices.

At the Auction!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

At the Auction!
Start Date: Mar 16, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 16, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

It’s auction day! Use Kidtropolis bucks to bid on toys and trinkets from the Kidtropolis Auction House. Compete against other Kidtropolis citizens for the stuff you want and discover how supply and demand sets the price for how much we pay for the things we buy.

12:30-1:30pm and 3:30-4:30pm

Most People Tossing Coins Simultaneously

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Most People Tossing Coins Simultaneously
Start Date: Mar 16, 2010 10:30 AM
End Time: Mar 16, 2010 5:30 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: Most People Tossing Coins Simultaneously

Help us beat the world record of 252 people while learning about probability. Then, help us beat that every hour! Bring your coins for a fun lesson in heads or tails. We’ll give it even odds we can beat the record!

Event time: Every hour on the half hour

Location: Courtyard

First Zydeco Band at CMH

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

First Zydeco Band at CMH
Start Date: Mar 17, 2010 2:00 PM
End Time: Mar 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: First Zydeco Band at CMH

Zydeco legend Step Rideau will be jamming at CMH for the first time. Experience his phenomenal Cajun sound right from the tips of his fingers.

Event times: 2 & 4 PM

Location: Kids' Hall Alcove

Most Paper Rocket Launches in a Day

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Most Paper Rocket Launches in a Day
Start Date: Mar 18, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 18, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: Most Paper Rocket Launches in a Day

Help us set a world record to see how many times we can launch paper rockets in a single day. Come design your own paper rocket using newspaper and tape!

Newspapers donated by Houston Chronicle

Exhibit: Invention Convention

Joseph Cohen Visit

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Joseph Cohen Visit
Start Date: Mar 18, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 18, 2010 3:00 PM
Event Details:

Joseph Cohen, local up and coming artist, is exploring with viscosity in paints with visitors as visitors work on their own works of art.

Time: 11 AM - 3 PM

Location: Inventors' Workshop

Most Calories Burned in a Dance Marathon

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Most Calories Burned in a Dance Marathon
Start Date: Mar 19, 2010 10:00 AM
End Time: Mar 19, 2010 6:00 PM
Event Details:

Today’s Record-Setting First: Most Calories Burned in a Dance Marathon

Get your groove on to see how many calories you can burn as we set the record to the tunes of DJ Zin.

Event time: All day

Location: Courtyard

Pinball Machines

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Pinball Machines
Start Date: Mar 19, 2010 10:30 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 5:30 PM
Event Details:

Design a game of Pinball Machine using materials found at home or at a craft store. Use physics to create contraptions that will send the pinball racing, bouncing, spins, shooting, and so on.

Exhibit: Inventors' Workshop

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:29:03 GMT

Start Date: Mar 12, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 12, 2010 3:30 PM

Members Only Hour

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:42:21 GMT

Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 9:00 AM
End Time: Mar 13, 2010 10:00 AM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 13, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 13, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 14, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 14, 2010 4:00 PM

All Sunday Events Begin at Noon

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:36 GMT

Start Date: Mar 14, 2010 12:00 PM
End Time: Mar 14, 2010 6:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 15, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 15, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 16, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 16, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 17, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 17, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 18, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 18, 2010 4:00 PM

Target Storytime

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:54:36 GMT

Start Date: Mar 18, 2010 5:00 PM
End Time: Mar 18, 2010 8:30 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 19, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 19, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 20, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 20, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 21, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 4:00 PM

All Sunday Events Begin at Noon

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:36 GMT

Start Date: Mar 21, 2010 12:00 PM
End Time: Mar 21, 2010 6:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 23, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 23, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 24, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 24, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 25, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 25, 2010 4:00 PM

Target Storytime

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:54:36 GMT

Start Date: Mar 25, 2010 5:00 PM
End Time: Mar 25, 2010 8:30 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 26, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 26, 2010 4:00 PM

Story Time

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Start Date: Mar 27, 2010 11:00 AM
End Time: Mar 27, 2010 4:00 PM