Events Calendar

Science Carnival Booth: MAYA 2012: Lords of Science
Outdoor Event on the Parkway

The Science Festival kicks off with a free science carnival at Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, featuring more than 80 exhibitors offering non-stop, family-friendly experiments, activities, games, and a packed line-up of live entertainment on two stages. Penn Museum joins in with an interactive booth that explores some of the science, technology, engineering, and math that the ancient Maya employed in their remarkable civilization. Visitors are invited to help build a corbel arch with large construction blocks, construct a miniature Maya temple, play a Maya number matching game to learn more about Maya numerals, and explore the complex Maya calendar, to earn a Maya Explorers certificate