National Museum of Natural History Presents THE INCREDIBLE BIONIC MAN Today

WHO: THE INCREDIBLE BIONIC MAN

Elizabeth Duggal - Associate Director for Public Engagement,

Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Rich Walker - Managing Director, Shadow Robot

Charles Poe -Vice President, Programming, Smithsonian Channel

Brad Palazzo - Director of External Affairs for Comcast

Students from:

Bloomfield High School - Bloomfield, NJ

Eastern Technical High School - Baltimore, MD

Island Trees High School - Levittown, NY

Montgomery Blair High School - Silver Spring, MD

WHAT: "The Incredible Bionic Man" fresh off his stay at the National Air and Space Museum will head to the National Museum of Natural History's new Q?rius Theater for one day to crown the winner of Smithsonian Channel partnered with Comcast and Cablevision's Power to Learn on The Incredible Bionic Man Challenge, which tasked high school students along the Eastern Seaboard to create an artificial body part from normal household items. Four finalists will be in attendance and the grand-prize winner will walk with $5,000.

Smithsonian Channel is the exclusive U.S. television home to chronicle the behind-the-scenes story of the world's first real Bionic Man - a 6-foot-tall robot built entirely from bionic body parts and implantable synthetic organs - complete with a functioning circulatory system. THE INCREDIBLE BIONIC MAN shows how far we've come in efforts to simulate the human body.

WHEN & WHERE:

SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

1000 Constitution Ave NW

Washington, DC 20560

**Event held in

Q?rius Theater today, December 12 at 2pm

Press check-in at 1:30pm