Family Event - Sunday at Discovery Center

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 2, 2011

Contact:  Kristie Maher – 224-8295, kristiemaher@sd-discovery.com

 

Pierre, SD –  Parents have a great opportunity to log in some quality time with the kids before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 6.  Visiting scientist, Ed Sobey, will be at the SD Discovery Center from 1pm to 3pm to lead families in creating and testing cars, rockets and other things that move.

 

Ed Sobey, a self-dubbed global evangelist for creative thinking, is a scientist, inventor, and educator.  He has authored numerous books for kids including “The Way Toys Works” and “Fantastic Flying Fun” and teachers guides including “Inventing to Learn.”  He is a founder of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Toy Hall of Fame and co-creator of Camp Invention and Kids Invent! Workshops.  Sobey developed and hosted a kids television series on inventing called , “The Idea Factory.”

 

This is the third time Sobey has visited the SD Discovery Center.  “He’s one of our favorites, “ notes Kristie Maher, director of the SD Discovery Center.  “He’s gets you working the second you walk in the door, he has you build things you never thought you could and you have a ton of fun the entire time.”   It is often that kids go home from Sobey’s workshops and continue to make things.  His materials are basics like cardboard, old toys, glue, straws, and plastic bottles so kids can come by an endless supply of building materials for nothing.

 

The event  is free to SD Discovery Center members.  Non-members must pay admission of $3 for children and $4 for adults or purchase a $40 membership.  No registration is required.

 

The Center is taking donations of empty cereal boxes for this event and a subsequent teacher workshop.  If you can bring your empty boxes to the SD Discovery Center by Sunday at 1pm.