The Sciencenter is located in Ithaca, NY, near Cornell University. This area, part of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, is famous for its breathtaking gorges, waterfalls, and lakes.

With more than 250 exhibits, the Sciencenter is a great place for family fun – inside and out! Inside, you can meet live animals, including snakes, geckos, frogs, turtles, and hissing cockroaches, in the Saltonstall Animal Room. During touch tank hours, handle sea stars, urchins and hermit crabs at the Connect to the Ocean exhibition. Experiment with science discovery kits in the Discovery Space, and explore the constellations in the local night sky at the Mars and Stars exhibition. Outside, get a sense of scale on the Sagan Planet Walk – a scale model of the solar system extending ¾ miles. You can golf from Pluto to the Sun on the Galaxy Golf course, which challenges players with a different science or math principal at each hole. If music is more your style, head to Emerson Science Park and play with instruments like steel and bongo drums, xylophones, and gongs. Explore geometry on the new 14' foot high rope climbing structure, investigate bubbles, or sculpt a sandy streambed!

The Sciencenter offers an annual Egg Drop contest, challenging kids to engineer the most creative, anti-gravitational or impact-resistant flight vehicle for a raw chicken egg! Each spring, kids create fabulous contraptions to keep their eggs safe as they fall from a second floor balcony to concrete below! Awards are given for Most Earth Friendly, Best Engineering Design, Best Freefall, Best Parachute/slow decent, and Best Unsuccessful Effort - SPLAT!

Visit the Sciencenter online at www.sciencenter.org and check out the fun science links for kids!

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