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Kid’s Week at the Intrepid Museum Starts Sunday

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Evelyn Kanter

intrepid museum kids week Kids Week at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, starts Sunday, Feb. 18, with a week of nearly hourly activities, from performances by the casts of  top Broadway shows and wildlife demonstrations, to programs with NASA scientists and demos of NASA technology.

All shows, lectures and mini-tours are FREE with admission.

Kids Week 2018 celebrates science everywhere. Look for science in your favorite places, from the basketball court to your backyard.

Kids of all ages can discover how science intersects with art, sports, games and nature in fun-filled activities, performances and visits from special guests all week long.

Intrepid MuseumKids Week at the Intrepid is Sunday, Feb. 18 through Saturday, Feb. 24.

The are raffle prizes and giveaways all week, and also the chance to win the chance to spend a night at the museum, for real, at Camp Slumber.

The Intrepid is just one of several top museums for kids in Manhattan, also including the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Math.

See our list of the best NYC museums for kids

Kids Week 2018 Schedule

Sunday, February 18

Monday, February 19

TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Chelsea Piers Golf Club, NY Jets, In the Sports Zone, YokeyPokey VR, Drones Racing League, New York Road Runners, Dazzling Discoveries, Coca-Cola, Museum of Interesting Things, LEGOLAND Discovery Center, Staten Island Yankees, Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, Kidville and Shared Studios
10:00am–5:00pm
PRESENTATION
by NASA’s Kevin Hussey: NASA’s Eyes
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK   Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Giant Leaps: Exploration in the Space Age
11:30am & 1:30pmWORKSHOP by Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center: Baseball Stats 101
Play math and probability games with real baseball cards, and take home a prize!
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
Noon & 2:00pmPRESENTATION by Mad Science
1:00pm & 4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
1:00pm–3:00pmSPECIAL APPEARANCE by NY Mets mascot Mr. Met
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s Space Shuttles
3:00pmPRESENTATION by Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center: Fastball Physics

Use state-of-the-art radar gun technology to measure your own throw speeds.

3:00pm
TOUR GUIDE TALK Mars:
NASA’s Journey to the Red Planet
TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, In the Sports Zone, New York Road Runners, YokeyPokey VR, Brooklyn Cyclones, NY Jets, Drones Racing League, Coca-Cola, Museum of Interesting Things, LEGOLAND Discovery Center, Staten Island Yankees, Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, Institute of Play, Shared Studios and Kidville
10:00am–5:00pmMEET THE SCIENTIST Columbia University’s Steven Mohammed
10:00am–5:00pm
PRESENTATION
by NASA’s Kevin Hussey: NASA’s Eyes

 

11:00am & 3:00pmPRESENTATION by Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center: Fastball Physics
Use state-of-the-art radar gun technology to measure your own throw speeds.
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK Focus on Hubble: The Challenge to Build Our Greatest Telescope
11:30am & 1:30pmWORKSHOP by Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center:  Baseball Stats 101
Play math and probability games with real baseball cards, and take home a prize!
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Giant Leaps:
Exploration in the Space Age
Noon & 2:00pmPRESENTATION by Mad Science
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
1:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Brooklyn Cyclones Learn about the history and fundamentals of baseball
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s Space Shuttles
3:00pmTOUR GUIDE TALK Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs
4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly

 

Tuesday, February 20

Wednesday, February 21

TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, Cornell University 4-H Youth Development, Puppetry Arts, Be a Broadway Star, Kidville, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Yokey Pokey VR, New Victory Theater, Shared Studios and the Giggling Pig Art & Party Studio
10:00am–5:00pm
PRESENTATION by NASA’s Kevin Hussey: NASA’s Eyes
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs
11:00amBROADWAY PERFORMANCE: Once on This Island
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Star Stories
11:30am & 2:30pmART WORKSHOP by the Giggling Pig
Listen to author Hannah Perry read her book Picnics & Puddles and follow some funny steps to make your own Giggles the Giggling Pig.
11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm & 2:00pmSPECIAL APPEARANCE by Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
NoonBROADWAY PERFORMANCE: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
12:30pm  & 2:00pmPERFORMANCE The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
1:00pm & 4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
1:00pmBROADWAY PERFORMANCE: Anastasia
1:30pm & 3:30pmWORKSHOP by WonderSpark Puppet Make Your Own Puppets
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s Space Shuttles
3:00pm
TOUR GUIDE TALK Mars: NASA’s Journey to the Red Planet
3:00pm & 4:30pmINTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE by Gazillion Bubble Show
4:00pmBROADWAY PERFORMANCE: School of Rock
TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, Giggling Pig Art & Party Studio, Puppetry Arts, Be a Broadway Star, YokeyPokey VR, NOAA’s Joe Cione, Brooklyn Fiber Art, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Kidville and Shared Studios, Cornell University 4-H Youth Development
10:00am–5:00pm
PRESENTATION by NASA’s Kevin Hussey: NASA’s Eyes
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK Focus on Hubble: The Challenge to Build Our Greatest Telescope
11:00am–3:30pmPERFORMANCE The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
11:00am & 1:30pmWORKSHOP by Story Pirates: Comic Book Creation
Come up with your own superheroes and villains, and create your own comic book!
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Star Stories
11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm & 2:00pmSPECIAL APPEARANCE by Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine
11:30amPRESENTATION by Tuffy Tiger: Live & In Orange!
Join Tuffy as he explores the world around him through music and dance.
Noon & 4:00pmART WORKSHOP by the Giggling Pig
Listen to author Hannah Perry read her book Picnics & Puddles and follow some funny steps to make your own Giggles the Giggling Pig.
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
12:30pm & 2:30pmPERFORMANCE by Story Pirates: The Story Pirates’ Greatest Hits Show
Don’t miss this big, hilarious, interactive sketch comedy musical.
1:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
1:00pm & 3:00pmWORKSHOP by WonderSpark Puppets: Make Your Own Puppet
1:30pm & 4:30pmPERFORMANCE by Kidville’s Rockin’ Railroad
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s Space Shuttles
3:00pmTOUR GUIDE TALK Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs

 

Thursday, February 22

Friday, February 23

TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, CUNY Medgar Evers College, NASA’s Allison Bolinger, NOAA’s Joe Cione, Robotics, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, YokeyPokey VR, Astronomer Jason Kalirai, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Jenkinson’s Aquarium, Rube Goldberg, Madame Tussauds New York, Wildlife Conservation Society: New York Aquarium, Shared Studios, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Space Racers, Jupiter Joe’s Sidewalk Astronomy and Kidville
10:00am–5:00pmMEET THE SCIENTIST Columbia University’s Ellen Crapster-Pregont
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs
11:00am & 4:00pmPRESENTATION by Jenkinson’s Aquarium
Waddle into the world of penguin biology, care and conservation, and then meet a penguin.
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Biome Away from Home: The Hunt for Life in Outer Space
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
Noon, 2:00pm & 3:00pmLIVE ANIMAL SHOW by Zoologist Jarod Miller
Noon & 2:30pmWORKSHOP Rube Goldberg Speed Building Challenge
1:00pm
PRESENTATION by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Jason Kalirai
Learn about the hunt for Earth-like planets and the first galaxies in the universe, and get a glimpse at our next bold adventure with the James Webb Space Telescope.
1:00pm & 4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
1:30pm
WORKSHOP with NASA’s Allison Bolinger
Learn how to build a space station from a NASA spacewalk flight controller.
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s Space Shuttles
2:30pm
PRESENTATION by NASA’s Allison Bolinger
Find out how astronauts learn to spacewalk.  
3:00pm
TOUR GUIDE TALK   Mars: NASA’s Journey to the Red Planet
3:30pm
PRESENTATION by Kuiper Kat’s Astronomy 
TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, CUNY Medgar Evers College, Columbia Space Initiative, FIRST, SciTech Kids, NASA’s Allison Bolinger, YokeyPokey VR, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA’s Joe Cione, Astronomer Jason Kalirai, Robofun, Rube Goldberg, Madame Tussauds New York, Shared Studios and Kidville
10:00am–5:00pmMEET THE SCIENTIST Columbia University’s Marina Gemma
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK Focus on Hubble: The Challenge to Build Our Greatest Telescope
11:00am, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPERFORMANCE by the Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater Group
11:00am & 2:30pmWORKSHOP Rube Goldberg Speed Building Challenge
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM  Biome Away from Home: The Hunt for Life in Outer Space
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
Noon
PRESENTATION by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Jason Kalirai
Learn about the hunt for Earth-like planets and the first galaxies in the universe, and get a glimpse at our next bold adventure with the James Webb Space Telescope.
12:30pm & 4:00pmWORKSHOP by SciTech Kids
1:00pm, 2:00pm & 4:00pmLIVE ANIMAL SHOW by Zoologist Jarod Miller
1:00pm & 4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
1:30pm
WORKSHOP with NASA’s Allison Bolinger
Learn how to build a space station from a NASA spacewalk flight controller.
2:00pmDEMONSTRATION Blast Off: Fueling America’s
Space Shuttles
2:30pm
PRESENTATION by Kuiper Kat’s Astronomy
3:00pm
PRESENTATION by NASA’s Allison Bolinger
Find out how astronauts learn to spacewalk.  
3:00pmTOUR GUIDE TALK Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs

Saturday, February 24

TIMEEVENT
10:00am–5:00pmDISPLAYS AND ACTIVITIES
Dazzling Discoveries, CUNY Medgar Evers College, FIRST Robotics, SciTech Kids, NASA’s Allison Bolinger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, YokeyPokey VR, NOAA’s Joe Cione, Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Beardsley Zoo, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, the Climate Museum, Shared Studios, Jenkinson’s Aquarium, Rube Goldberg, Society of Women Engineers, Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium, Two by Two Zoo’s Zoo Express Exhibit and Kidville
11:00am, 2:00pm & 3:30pmLIVE ANIMAL SHOW by the Two by Two Zoo: Wild World of Animals
11:00amTOUR GUIDE TALK  Stranger Than Fiction: Outlandish Aircraft Carrier Designs
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm & 2:30pmPOP-UP PLANETARIUM Biome Away from Home: The Hunt for Life in Outer Space
11:30am & 1:30pmWORKSHOP by SciTech Kids
Noon
PRESENTATION by NASA: So You Want to Go to Mars?   
NoonDEMONSTRATION Poof! Life in a Vacuum
12:30pm & 2:30pmWORKSHOP Rube Goldberg Speed Building Challenge
1:00pm
PRESENTATION by NASA’s Allison Bolinger. Find out how astronauts learn to spacewalk.
1:00pm & 4:00pmDEMONSTRATION by Museum Educators: How Things Fly
3:00pmTOUR GUIDE TALK Mars: NASA’s Journey to the Red Planet
3:30pm
WORKSHOP by NASA’s Allison Bolinger

Learn how to build a space station from a NASA spacewalk flight controller.

4:00pm PRESENTATION by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joe Cione
*Times are subject to change.

Also, register now for Camp Intrepid, a summer day camp for kids in grades K–5. Campers embark on exciting projects exploring topics related to the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid and the Museum’s collection of aircraft, spacecraft and water craft through exciting projects.

Educators help campers think critically, question the world around them and have fun while doing it.

Because science is everywhere.

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