Polar Play Days

Our classic Innovator virtual roller coaster gets a new arctic twist as the Glacial Glider. Design and ride your own virtual roller coaster alongside some snow and some penguin friends!

Frozen Wave Atlas is a vibrant waterworld, which users simultaneously create and discover. The more users interact, the richer and more complex this ecology grows as creatures inspired by arctic marine animals appear with arresting color patterns and astonishing shapes. The experience is controlled with pinch-and-drag hand gestures tracked via Leap Motion sensors and movements via HTC Vive controllers.

ICESat-2, part of NASA's Earth Observing System, is a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet elevation and sea ice thickness, as well as land topography, vegetation characteristics, and clouds. Learn more about this fascinating mission and engage with activities on the Lower Level.

The Solve for Earth exhibit looks at the whole picture of how individual changes can make a big impact on climate change. Also be sure to check out the reading nook for special books on the polar regions and the animals living there.

Design, build and program a real robot using sensors, controllers and actuators. With so many variations at your fingertips, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination! Can you make your robot help you make a snowperson? Take a photo with your creation and share on instagram — be sure to tag #polarplaydays and @thetechinteractive!

NOAA’s Science On a Sphere® uses computers and projectors to display visualizations of planetary data on a sphere, analogous to a giant, animated globe. During Polar Play Days learn more about Sea ice, which is monitored closely by scientists because changing sea ice coverage can have a huge impact on the rest of the globe.

What’s better than making holiday cookies? Making holiday cookie cutters! Design and create your own custom cookie cutter to take home. Ages 8+, under 8 must partner with an adult. Guided sessions: 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4. Stop by Tech Studio to pick up a reservation time slot, first come first served.

Use your design skills to help escape the cold and find a warmer climate. In this engineering design challenge, participants build and test a flying contraption using a variety of wing structures.

Design and cut out a custom snowflake or color a snowperson. Add your craft to our community winter wonderland wall or take them home!

Navigate a polar maze to escape the treacherous Yetis! Work as a team and use scratch coding blocks to help navigate obstacles and safely reach the other side.

Learn about early animation techniques then add a seasonal flair to create your own polar themed optical illusion.

It is a land of mystery and yet what happens here affects every single one of us. With never-before seen footage, our story brings audiences to the farthest reaches of this wild and majestic continent. It is the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth with the roughest oceans and yet, weird and wonderful creatures thrive here in astounding abundance.

Journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Join Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continent’s profound transformation, and predict the future as humans drive dramatic change.

Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone? 13 billion years in the making, Deep Sky reveals the universe as we have never seen it before; immersing audiences in the stunning pictures beamed back to earth by NASA’s new Webb telescope — and capturing their vast beauty at a scale that can only be experienced on the giant IMAX screen.

Mumble (Elijah Wood) the penguin, now called the Master of Tap, has an unusual problem: Erik, his son, is reluctant to dance. Erik runs away from home and encounters the Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria) — a penguin that can fly. Poor Mumble can't compete with Erik's unusual new role model. But, when the world is shaken by powerful forces, Erik gets a chance to see his father's true colors as Mumble gathers all creatures great and small to set things right again.

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in 10 years, “The Boy and the Heron” is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director. Produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, the film features a musical score from Miyazaki's long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi. The theme song for the film Spinning Globe was penned and performed by global J-pop superstar Kenshi Yonezu.

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