Super Saturday! is a free event for families and children on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Enjoy a fun-filled day of hands-on science and math activities and demonstrations. Learn the physics of how things fly and how hula hoops work, and the biology of how our bodies move and function, among other amazing things. Parents and children will enjoy exploring the science that we see in our daily life!

See what you can do at Super Saturday!

Indoor Composting

Cow Eye Dissection

- See a cow eye dissection

- Learn how 3-D works

- Make your own mini-helicopter and learn about flight

- Hold a worm and learn about indoor composting

- Learn how to extract DNA from your spit

- See and touch real human organs

- Make a lamp from a pickle

- AND SO MUCH MORE!

Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Location: PS 165/The Robert E. Simon School, 234 W 109th St (between Amsterdam Ave and Broadway)

Free for families and children (ages 4-12). For more information call Morningside Area Alliance at (212) 749-1570 or e-mail us at info@morningsidealliance.org.

Participating organizations include: the New York Hall of Science, American Museum of Natural History, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, TalkingScience, The Science Barge, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension Program, Touro College, Jumpstart, NYU Law School, HealthCorps, Teachers College, Hip Hop Stroke Program, Cornell Medical College and more.

The event is made possible by Morningside Area Alliance in partnership with PS 165 (The Robert E. Simon School). The mission of the Morningside Area Alliance is to foster, develop and promote the advancement of the Morningside Heights district of New York City as a unique educational, residential and cultural neighborhood; to sustain linkages among its members institutions to enhance communication, public well-being and cooperative initiatives; and to identify and access the collective resources of its member institutions for the purpose of improving the areas of education and youth services, public health and community development in Morningside Heights and the surrounding community.