May 18, 2009

Helloooo, Summer! Birthday Bash at SD Discovery Center this Weekend


It’s the South Dakota Discovery Center’s 20th birthday. Consider it your birthday, too. You are invited to the first birthday party of the year. The “Helloooo, Summer! Birthday Bash is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This birthday party will include lots of birthday classics: a jumping castle, cupcakes and soap bubble blowing. Plus, the fun traveling exhibit, Toy Tech is featured in the exhibit hall. You can even enter to win a free birthday party of your own at the SD Discovery Center.

Toy Tech is a neat exhibit from the Ed Sobey, founder of the Northwest Invention Center and the author of many great science books for kids including, Fantastic Flying Fun! and Inventing with Toys. Adults and kids enjoy viewing some of the World’s Greatest Toys. How Toys Work has toys pulled apart so you can see “magic” that happens inside them. At the Toy Workshop, guests can design paper helicopters and fly them in the wind tunnel or paper rockets that can be launched to reach the Center’s 2-story ceiling!

For this birthday weekend the SD Discovery Center is open from 1to 5pm on Friday, 10am to 5pm on Saturday and 1-5pm on Sunday. The birthday party will be over, but the Discovery Center will still be open on Monday (Memorial Day) from 1pm to 5pm. As always, members and children up to 3 years old get in free. Adult fees are $4.00 and fees for children age 4-12 are $3.00. Rates for groups of 10 or more are available.

For more information on the SD Discovery Center, memberships and future birthday celebrations, go to www.sd-discovery.com. The birthday celebrations are supported by the SD Department of Tourism’s Governor’s Million Dollar Challenge program.

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