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Second Fridays

Join us for our new after hours series. Enjoy the Museum galleries, additional activities, and refreshments. Free admission.

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Featured Programs:

Build A Mega Carbon Nanotube!

Carbon nanotubes are regular geometric structures of carbon atoms with fascinating properties, currently being researched at MIT. Join our MIT Science Sculptors and help build a ten-foot tall model these structures. We'll be building our model on a 1: 10,000,000,000 scale...give or take an order of magnitude.

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Nanonight - Presentations and Demonstrations

Join scientists and engineers currently working with nanotechnology. Watch and participate in live demonstrations and activities.

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Nanotech Workshop (Registration is full)

Professors Paula Hammond and Angela Belcher invite you to explore the rapidly changing field of nanotechnology through a two-hour workshop. For adults only.

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Over the past ten years, Flashes of Inspiration was one of the MIT Museum's most popular exhibitions. Join us in meeting "Doc" Edgerton again in this new display of the digital archive of the professor's work. Celebrate with an afternoon of activities and demos!

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission.

Soap Box: Global Pandemics
Join Biology Professor Hidde Ploegh to discuss the weapons we have now to fight pandemics, new tools in the pipeline, and the challenges for privacy, biodefense, and public health that arise in the aggressive response to a pandemic.

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Free admission, light refreshments.

Friday After Thanksgiving: Chain Reaction
Our annual fun-filled family event hosted by sculptor Arthur Ganson. Watch as participant teams link their individual machines together forming one mega chain reaction!

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Rockwell Cage Gymnasium. $10 adults, $5 students and seniors. Includes same day admission to the MIT Museum.

Soap Box: Humans in Space

Hear from Professor Dava Newman about new technologies, companies, and policies that are leading people back into space above low Earth orbit. Discuss the issues around space flight from national pride and scientific discovery to wealth distribution and the meaning of being human.

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Free admission, light refreshments.

Second Fridays

Join us for our new after hours series. Enjoy the Museum galleries, additional activities, and refreshments. Free admission.

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Featured Program: Debunking Hollywood’s Holograms
Think you’ve seen holograms in the movies and on TV? Dr. Michael Bove from the MIT Media Lab will prove you wrong. See "holograms" in clips from Star Wars, CNN, and elsewhere, compare those special effects with real holograms. Learn about the moving holograms being developed right now in MIT labs. In conjunction with the Sampling MIT exhibit.

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Second Fridays

Join us for our new after hours series. Enjoy the Museum galleries, additional activities, and refreshments. Free admission.

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

How to run a great event at the Cambridge Science Festival

Planning an event for CSF 2010? This two hour workshop will introduce you to other event sponsors and science educators, outline resources available to you, give you a crash course in science communication, and offer an opportunity to troubleshoot the plans for your event.

Recommended for approved Cambridge Science Festival 2010 presenters.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.