Celebrate gray matter at BRAINFest! Learn how your brain thinks, processes sensory information, and perceives the world around you. Have fun improving your memory, confusing your senses, and testing your abilities through various games, puzzles, and other interactive activities for the entire family. Highlights include:
· The Future Brain: Catch a glimpse of future technology. Meet Wakamaru, a robot that talks. Try robotic instruments that send musical messages through a slinky and slime. Witness and control emergency rescue robots in action!· In The Lab: How do scientists study the brain? View and compare the brains of different kinds of animals, learn about how genes work in the brain, and look at neurons under a microscope. · Brain in Motion: How good is your coordination? By playing ping-pong, you will learn how the eyes and hands work together using messages sent from the brain.· Build-A-Brain: Do you know the different parts of your brain? Do you know what they do? Check out 3D brain puzzles and models to learn which parts of your brain you share with lizards and which parts make you human.
Generous support for Brain: The Inside Story has been provided by the Eileen P. Bernard Exhibition Fund, Virginia Hearst Randt and Dana Randt, The Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation, Inc., and Mary and David Solomon. Additional support for the Brain: The Inside Story and its related educational programming has been provided by Roche.
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