March 2007
Calendar Highlights
Ewww – Gross!
Did you know that more than 100,000,000 micro-creatures live in your mouth? That the hydrochloric acid in your stomach is so strong that it can eat up stainless steel razor blades? Or that a sneeze will shoot out of your nose at 100 mph? Pacific Science Center’s exhibit Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body features interesting facts about science, health and the human body. Based on Sylvia Branzei’s bestselling children’s book, Grossology, the exhibit features more than 20 interactive displays that reveal embarrassing and funny things that usually aren’t spoken of in polite society.
For further embarrassment, be sure to visit the public restrooms in Pacific Science Center’s Bldg. 5. They’ve been transformed into gross-themed lavatories where visitors can learn more about the science of grossology by looking at unpleasant facts written on the purple, brown and green walls.
10am-5pm weekdays, 10am-6pm weekends through May 6. Included with admission. $10, $8.50 seniors, $7 ages 3-12, IMAX and laser shows extra. Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave. N, Seattle. 206-443-2001. www.pacsci.org.
Calendar Hot Tips
Bugs!
Bugs in 3D is currently playing on the six-story high IMAX screen at Pacific Science Center. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench, the film follows a praying mantis and a butterfly from the Borneo rainforest as they go through their life cycles and interact with other creatures. Various times daily through March 29. $8, $7.50 seniors, $7 ages 3-12, exhibits additional charge. 200 Second Ave. N, Seattle. 206-443-2001. www.pacsci.org.
Contests for Kids
Create artwork for UNICEF greeting cards which will be sold at Pier 1 Imports this coming holiday season. This year’s theme is “Holiday Happiness”. Two winners will have their artwork chosen and will receive a trip to New York City. Entry form and rules online. Ages 13 and younger. Deadline April 11. 800-245-4595. www.unicefusa.org.
Redmond Association of SPokenword (RASP) offers the 10th annual Young Authors’ Contest for grades K-6 residing in Redmond and the Lake Washington School District. Write a poem (rhyming or not) on nature, your school or the place where you live. Winning poems will be published in the annual publication Chapbook. Entry deadline April 13. Guidelines and entry form online. www.rasp.cc.
Snohomish County PUD challenges grades K-12 from Snohomish County or
Camano Island to use original artwork to create a wanted poster for an
energy waster. Winners receive $50, are recognized at a May PUD meeting,
and their work may appear in PUD publications, facilities and Website.
Deadline is 5pm March 23. Rules and ideas online. www.snopud.com /Education.ashx?p=1785.
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