Backyard Science Days at the Maryland Science Center August 15, 2009

There’s a whole world of science outside your back door and the Maryland Science Center will help you find it at its annual Backyard Science Days celebration, Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16, from Noon until 4 p.m.

Backyard Science Days will put visitors face to face with tiny microbats as well as the Malayan Flying Fox with a six-foot wingspan in Rob Mies’s famed Bat Encounters show. Mountain Mushers, the nation’s only Hero Sled Dog/Educational Therapy team will also be on hand to share their experiences working with actual sled dogs retired from Denali National Park. Visitors will learn about these dogs’ extraordinary jobs and get to meet them too!

Backyard Science Day also includes hands on activities:

• Launching stomp rockets
• Making sun art
• Making Craters
• AlkaSeltzer Magic
• Meet the Beetles
• Creepy Crawly Cooking Demo with Chef Derrick
• Racing custom creations in “veggie racing”

The Maryland Science Center is located at 601 Light Street at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For information and tickets, visit www.marylandsciencecenter.org or call the 24-Hour Information Line at 410-685-5225, TDD: 410-962-0223.

Official Website: http://mdsci.org/events-calendar/events/BackyardScience.html