FOR THE KIDS
JUST FOR CHILDREN
F R IDAY TRAVELING LIGHT: Getting Around The Green Way! Green transportation practically begins with the bicycle — it’s cheap, healthful and nonpolluting, and it’s the most appropriate of technologies. Bicycles are great for trips to school, around the neighborhood, and for longer rides. Join avid local biker Jack Spula to learn more about equipment, basic maintenance, riding techniques and the “rules of the road.” 9 –10:15am RIVERSIDE COURT • 10:15 –10:30 am
Break
• 10:30 –11am Travel to the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) by bus (bring warm coats, hats, mittens, and boots)
LUNCH AND LEARNING AT THE ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER Children will explore the Rochester Museum & Science Center, which offers three floors of handson exhibitions exploring science and technology, natural science, and regional cultural heritage. Children will also visit the Strasenburgh Planetarium to see Dinosaurs Alive! — a captivating adventure of science and discovery that joins renowned paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and their graduate students in the field as they uncover new fossils, including the remarkable discovery of what may be the oldest dinosaur ever found in North America. 11am – 4:45 pm ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER • 4:45 – 5 pm Return to the Convention Center by bus
childcare All childcare is held upstairs in the Empire Lounge, near the entrance to the meals. Please check-in and check-out your child with the childcare provider. Please remember to be timely in picking up your little one for lunchtime and at the end of the day.
FRIDAY:
SATURDAY:
• 9am –12:30pm • 9:30 –11:30am Walk one block to Rochester Central Library for Story Hour (bring warm coats, hats, mittens, and boots) • 12:30 pm Lunch with Parents • 1:30 – 5pm
• 8am –12:15pm • 9:30 –11:30am Walk one block to Rochester Central Library for Story Hour (bring warm coats, hats, mittens, and boots) • 12:15 pm Lunch with Parents • 2:30 – 5:30pm
SUNDAY: • 8am –12:45pm • 12:30 pm Lunch with Parents
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CHILDREN’S CONFERENCE
S AT U UR R DAY BASIC PRINTMAKING Join Gere and Bruce Link, Link’in Llama Farms, to create a unique colorful print image. Children will have fun changing color and paper to see how their image changes. They will be able to print their image many times and make it into cards, bookmarks or a picture for framing! They can also use this printing method to mark garden rows or advertise their garden produce! 8 – 9:15 am AQUEDUCT A JAPANESE PRINTED WINDSOCKS In Japan, parents fly Koinobori, or fish windsocks, every year on Children’s Day, May 5th. In this workshop, Gere and Bruce Link, Link’in Llama Farms, will teach children how to use this Japanese printing tradition to print & create beautiful windsocks from fish replicas to hang in the spring. 9:30 –11am AQUEDUCT A • 11:15 –11:45 am Walk to the Museum of Play (bring warm coats, hats, mittens, and boots)
V I S IT A L L TH E TR A D E S H OW E X H I B IT S A N D S U P P O RT O U R A DV E RTI S E R S !
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