FREE Admission to the Michigan Science Center Friday, July 13

Summer may signal the end of school for Detroit-area students but learning never stops at the Michigan Science Center {MiSci}! To celebrate Family STEAM {science, technology, engineering, art and math} Day, MiSci, with support from Ford Motor Company Fund, is making fun, engaging and educational activities accessible for all by offering FREE Admission to the Michigan Science Center July 13.

Family STEAM Day special activities include:

• Enjoy an “explosive” Kaboomistry live stage show and learn where the fireworks you see this time of year get their colors!
• Check out Spark!Lab where there will be opportunities for the whole family to explore their inventive creativity. Take the challenge to invent an alien or build a droid!
• Make your own slime in BASF Kids’ Lab with Playful Polymers.
• Learn to fold paper airplanes and fly them in the STEM Playground.
• Explore Kids Town with “out of this world” activities and crafts. Make and launch your own rockets, make a model of the solar system and more.

Additionally, general admission includes 250+ hands-on exhibits, live stage shows and much more. Planetarium and 4D theater tickets will be available for purchase at the box office.

Pre-registration is required and is available at www.mi-sci.org. Time slots include 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

In case you aren’t familiar, the Michigan Science Center is a hands-on museum that inspires curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in a creative, dynamic learning environment. The Science Center features Michigan’s largest screen at the Chrysler IMAX® Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systèmes Planetarium; the Toyota Engineering 4D Theater; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the Chrysler Science Stage; a 9,800 square-foot Traveling Science Hall for special exhibits; hands-on exhibit galleries focusing on space, life and physical science; Kids Town just for pint-size scientists; along with, education and outreach programs.

The Michigan Science Center is located at 5020 John R St., Detroit, MI.

For more information, visit www.Mi-Sci.org.

Grab more fun ideas for fun in July HERE!