Kids Week is back at the Intrepid Museum and the fun is moving full STEAM ahead! Science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and fun take center stage at this annual Midwinter Break fest. 

Visit the Intrepid for fun-filled activities, NASA displays & exhibits, live animal shows, hands-on workshops, performances, special guests, and interactive demonstrations designed to educate and inspire.

Special items on the schedule include:

Saturday, February 18:
12n: Life in a Vacuum. Kids learn why astronauts wear spacesuits when museum educations mimic the vacuum effect of space on different objects, using a bell jar and vacuum pump.
2pm: Mike Menzel, NASA Mission Systems Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope teaches kids about the engineering and science behind the telescope.

Sunday, February 19:
12n: Launching Space Shuttles. An interactive demo shows kids how space shuttles get to space and, more importantly, how they get astronauts back home safely.
3pm: Astronaut Jessica Watkins talks about her career with former astronaut Mike Massimino.

Monday, February 20:
12n: Life in a Vacuum

Tuesday, February 21:
12:30pm & 1:30pm: Blue Man Group Perform
1pm & 3pm: Gazillion Bubble Show
2pm: Dogman the Musical
All day:

• Authors Debbie Loren Dunn and Tami Lewis Brown talk about their new children’s books, Perkin's Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry and Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
• Meet the Author: Former space shuttle escape equipment crew chief/suit tech and modern day hidden figure Sharon McDougle tells kidsall about the orange spacesuit in her adorable children's book, Suit Up for Launch with Shay!
• Ballet Hispánico School of Dance: Staff members lead children in an interactive crafting project to explore the rhythms of Latinx culture across a variety of different countries. Age range 3-8 years old. 

Wednesday, February 22:
12pm: Betty Skelton: For All Womankind
1pm & 3pm: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
2pm: Ballet Hispanico performance (ages 6+)
All day:

• Authors Debbie Loren Dunn and Tami Lewis Brown talk about their new children’s books, Perkin's Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry and Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
• Ballet Hispánico School of Dance: Staff members lead children in an interactive crafting project to explore the rhythms of Latinx culture across a variety of different countries. Age range 3-8 years old. 

Thursday, February 23:
12n: Airheads - the Science of Flight
1pm & 3pm: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
2pm: Two by Two Animal Haven Show
All day:

• Wildlife Conservation Society: Learn about the variety of engaging education programs at the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and New York Aquarium, and explore a wildly fun hands-on activity!
• Two by Two Animal Haven: Wild World of Animals exhibit: including kangaroo, North American Alligator, hedgehog, chinchilla, snake, different types of small tortoises.
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater invites kids to play a version of "Go Fish" and interact with river critters.
• Jenkinson's Aquarium: meet some outrageous reptiles and learn about their differences by comparing the reptile groups to one another, including snakes, turtles, lizards, and crocodilians
• Beardsley Zoo: Discover how incredible invertebrates survive in the wild with tabletop displays and live arthropod animal ambassadors
• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory: Join Lamont for Scientists are Superheroes activity. Recommended for ages 5-10yrs old

Friday, February 24:
12n: Airheads - the Science of Flight
12pm-4pm: Wildlife Theater presents pop-up and roaming puppet shows
1pm & 3pm: Mad Science takes kids on an adventure in Physics (ages 5+)
2pm: Two by Two Animal Haven Show
All Day:

• Wildlife Conservation Society: Learn about the variety of engaging education programs at the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and New York Aquarium, and explore a wildly fun hands-on activity
• Two by Two Animal Haven: Wild World of Animals exhibit: including kangaroo, North American Alligator, hedgehog, chinchilla, snake, different types of small tortoises.
• Rube Goldberg: Make your own Rube Goldberg Machine with paper! Join Jennifer George, Rube’s granddaughter and Godwyn Morris from Dazzling Discoveries and make your own machine with nothing more than a few sheets of paper and tape.
• ROBOFUN: Robofun presents a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces for students to play and experiment with. There will be a remote-controlled catapult, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, circuitry station, and video game creation software stations among many other projects. (ages 5-12) 
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater invites kids to play "go fish" and interact with river critters.
• Jenkinson's Aquarium: Meet some outrageous reptiles and learn about their differences by comparing the reptile groups to one another
• Beardsley Zoo: Discover how incredible invertebrates survive in the wild with tabletop displays and live arthropod animal ambassadors
• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory: Scientists are Superheroes activity. (ages 5-10yrs)
• The High Line: How could public space better serve everyone? Create your own paper sculpture showing your vision for your community and add it to a 3-D model
• Blue Man Group: Interactive arts & crafts.
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: Make your own LED paper flashlight!
• American Society of Civil Engineers: Interactive Seismic Structural Experience where kids can build their own toothpick structures and see how they behave under seismic loading on a simulated shake table.

Saturday, February 25:
12pm & 3pm: Launching Space Shuttles
1pm: Mad Science - Fire and Ice. Kids learn about combustion and the amazing frozen gas that is dry ice. (ages 5+)
2pm: STEM from Dance performs a Hip-Hop Jazz piece using LED light sticks as props.
All day:

• Rube Goldberg: Make your own Rube Goldberg Machine with paper! Join Jennifer George, Rube’s granddaughter and Godwyn Morris from Dazzling Discoveries and make your own machine with nothing more than a few sheets of paper and tape.
  ROBOFUN: Robofun presents a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces for students to play and experiment with. There will be a remote-controlled catapult, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, circuitry station, and video game creation software stations among many other projects. (ages 5-12 yrs)
• American Society of Civil Engineers: Interactive Seismic Structural Experience where kids can build their own toothpick structures and see how they behave under seismic loading on asimulated shake table.
• NYC Ghostbusters League: NYC Ghostbusters are back aboard the Intrepid to teach kids how to make cross link polymer gel, a scientific recipe for ectoplasmic slime.
• The High Line: How could public space better serve everyone? Create your own paper sculpture showing your vision for your community and add it to a 3-D model!
• Blue Man Group: Interactive arts & crafts.
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater invites kids to play Go Fish and interact with river critters.
• Columbia’s Society of Women Engineers hosts a paper-airplane making activity in which students can tinker with and test a variety of plane designs, learn more about aerodynamics, and pit their creations against one another!