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PSF KICK-OFF PARTY: 8-BIT NIGHT FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | 7:00–10:00 PM The Festival fun doesn’t stop here. We have 8 full days of science fun left! Check out www.PhilaScienceFestival.org SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR MANY PROGRAM for more detailed information and get your tickets before PARTNERS AND SPONSORS FOR MAKING THE they sell out! OPENING NIGHT KICK-OFF PARTY POSSIBLE!

Philadelphia Science Festival Presenting Sponsor: Tickets still available for the following events:

Sunday, April 26 - Fishtown Science Crawl Hands-on science + your favorite Fishtown hangouts = the perfect Sunday afternoon Our biggest Science After Hours of the year kicks of The Science Festival with a night devoted Monday, April 27 - Big Ideas for Busy People @ WHYY to classic video games! Cutting edge research + local scientists = an inspiring evening

Tuesday, April 28 - An Alchemist’s Toast to Health, Wealth Science After Hours Sponsor: Play some of your favorite retro video games throughout the museum—on and Longevity @ The Chemical Heritage Foundation both our large scale theater screens and those within exhibits. Modern science + alchemy of yore = a ren faire-themed evening To reserve play time, stop by the sign-up table in Aviation Hallway Wednesday, April 29 - Let’s Get Happy @ Ruba Club Studios beginning at 7:00 pm to receive a game card. Science + happiness = an audience walking on sunshine Bring your game card to the designated gaming area during your given time slot and let the retro-gaming begin! No quarters needed. NOTE: Game cards will only be accepted for the designated time and game; substitutions cannot be made. Thursday, April 30 – Inspired by Nature @ The Painted Bride Biology + robots = hawk robot! Time slots filled up? Don’t despair! We will have limited “extra life” cards that can be redeemed at any of the gaming stations when extra time is available. Get your “extra life” game cards from Thursday, April 30 – Gross Anatomy @ Ruba Club Studios roving staf members who will be handing them out throughout the night. Each Sideshow acts + a talk about snot = FUN! “extra life” card is good for one game and will act as a waitlist if timed players use their turns quickly. Please note that your “extra life” does not guarantee a Friday, May 1 – You’re the Expert, Featuring turn to play. Game play time is limited to 5 minutes OR when a player dies— whichever comes first. Wyatt Cenac @ The Franklin Institute Comedy + a cool scientist = a great date night

A selection of wines, craft beers, sandwiches and other snacks are available at bars throughout the building. Join us as we tap the ofcial Yards Brewing Company Science Festival beer, Parallel Brewniverse. We love video games so much that 2nd FLOOR ACTIVITIES FRANKLIN MEMORIAL: TETRIS NICHOLAS AND ATHENA KARABOTS we turned The Franklin Institute into one GIANT arcade. Each room features Axalta Coating Systems: PAVILION: TFI ARCADE

ATRIUM Do we All See Colors the Same Way? FLOOR activities grouped by theme. Pick your AT&T: Experience Virtual Reality 1 Train Factory favorite game or retro-theme & uncover Sidewalk Atlas Drexel University Math Department: The Dow Chemical Company: the science behind it! Performances at 7:40, 8:40, 9:40 pm Tetris, Tiles, & Counting Polyominoes Primetime Slime Time! D Thirsty or hungry? Check out the bar The Franklin Institute: Tetris Tower The Franklin Institute: Ben’s Arcade 1st FLOOR ACTIVITIES at Foodworks Express. Tetris on the Memorial Hall walls! Thorne Media: Enter the Rift TNT Amusements: Arcade Inside Out Planetarium FELS PLANETARIUM: GALAGA AMAZING MACHINE: FROGGER KEY HALLWAY: POWER STRIP Chipocrite C

The Franklin Institute: All About That Bass Audubon : Harcourt Tesla Science Foundation: Tower of Power APP ARCADE Classroom Animal Style The Birds and the…Birds The Franklin Institute: Itty-bitty 8-bit FEATURING LOCAL GAME DEVELOPERS: B SciStarter: Zom-bees Ate My Neighbors B Space BAR Galaga on the DOME! Philadelphia is home to many talented game Command Yelp: Charging Station The Franklin Institute: Frog(ger) Dissection developers! Meet 20 of them tonight and try your hand at their awesome games! HARCOURT CLASSROOM: THE GIANT HEART: DR. MARIO 9th Level Games: Schrodinger’s Cats Self Coat Check MARIO KART BEN’S BRICK HOUSE/IMAX®: PAC-MAN (Card Game) Temple University TU Teach: Make-O-Scope Backward Pies: Let There be Life The Franklin Institute: Battle Mode! The Franklin Institute: Pac-maniac Thomas Jeferson University: Cadman Segal: Citch We’ve hit multiplayer mode with this Mario Pac-man in the IMAX Theater! Baby in a Bottle Cart Classic! Strap on your balloons, hop on Cipher Prime: Splice & Intake a scooter and grab those shells as we leave University of Pennsylvania LRSM: Cardboard Fortress Games: Resistor FLOOR Amazing the controller at home and put you in the The Nose Knows (Card Game) 2 Franklin Machine CHANGING EARTH: DIG DUG Air Show chaotic action. It’s ON!! University of the Sciences: A Shot of Flu Deep Dark Hole: Elbow Room The Nature Conservancy: Dr. Mario at the Bloodmobile station! Final Four Games: Jamestown D PLANETARIUM HALLWAY: TAPPER Where’s the Beach? Flyclops Dig Dug in Changing Earth! Fuguelike: Hard Rain ATRIUM Monell Chemical Senses Center: WISDOM HALL: PUNCH OUT! Ghost Crab Games: Hastilude Is Love for Gin & Tonic in Your Taste Genes? A Jeferson Comprehensive Concussion Honeycomb Interactive: Mammoth Jockeys ELECTRICITY: C University of the Sciences: Center: Seeing Stars JK Games Why Does Nose Grease Cause Beer Foam THE LEGEND OF ZELDA Wisdom Grimm Bros: Your Brain Hall Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair: Dragon Fin Soup Changing to Disappear? Earth The Chemical Heritage Foundation: Mind Your Brain OriGamic: Henka Twist Caper Franklin Memorial Gaming Fate Key Hall Weckerly’s Ice Cream Samples! YUM! Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Tom Snively: Match Em B B BAR The Franklin Institute: Electricity Burger Time in Franklin Theater! The Heat Is On Medicine: Grey Matter Blueprint Paisley Games: Swat Team Stephen Pettit : Hyperspace Rangers Self Coat Check Franklin Foodworks SPACE COMMAND: TEMPEST FRANKLIN AIRSHOW: PHL Collective: Cluster Puck 99 YOUR BRAIN: METROID QuadraTron Games: Threshold SUPER MARIO BROS 3 Giant Heart Temple University TU Teach: University of Pennsylvania: Space Whale: Return All Robots Lava Levels The Franklin Institute: Power Up! Medula Oblon-GOTCHA! Thirsty or hungry? Check out the bar in The Franklin Institute: Fire Flower Power University of the Sciences: University of Pennsylvania: Multi-Memory Karabots Pavilion! It’s All Relativity Dino Lionetti Widener University Biofeedback Clinic: FLOOR Look Ma, No Hands! 3 The Wagner Free Institute of Sciences: 4th FLOOR ACTIVITIES Is All Light Created Equal? FOODWORKS: WHERE IN THE Tempest at exhibit stations! WORLD IS CARMEN SAN DIEGO? 3rd FLOOR ACTIVITIES JOEL N. BLOOM OBSERVATORY: Thirsty? Visit our cash only beer bar! SPACE INVADERS Demonstration Center for Forensic Science Research & MEZZANINE LEVEL: BUBBLE BOBBLE Theater Education: Scene of the Crime The Franklin Institute: Star Power BAR A The Franklin Institute: TRAIN FACTORY: WALKMAN Philadelphia College of Osteopathic The Franklin Institute: Space Extruders Karabots Pavillion Bigger Bubble Bobble & App Arcade Medicine: Grand Theft Oh No Observatory Drexel University Math Department: The Franklin Institute: Quantum Light Cycle 4th foor Discrete Sound Waves Philly Weekly DEMONSTRATION THEATER: TAKE ELEVATOR B TO THE 4TH FLOOR Penn Lab for Auditory Coding: Storm Blooper TO GET TO THE OBSERVATORY B B Auditory Illusions NIK’S TUNES Thirsty or hungry? Check out the Sir Isaac’s Loft MAIN bar at Franklin Foodworks. Check out TFI’s electrifying dueling Tesla Coils at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 pm!