<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:243.2pt"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:243.2pt"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN style="">October 18, 2006<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" 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style="tab-stops:243.2pt"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: 14px; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style="font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.6667px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><A href="http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font-size: 14px; ">CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL</FONT></A> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: auto;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">ISSUES CALL FOR ENTRIES</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">First In the Nation Science Festival Seeks MIT</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Participants to Join the Celebration</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(CAMBRIDGE, MA) The MIT Museum is proud to present the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival, to be held April 21-29, 2007, the first of its kind in the United States. Festival organizers are issuing a Call for Entries</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> to MIT students, faculty and staff to contribute programming to the Festival this spring.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The Festival will be a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science and technology. It </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">will offer a wide range of science and technology-related activities— demonstrations, exhibitions, concerts, plays, poetry readings, lectures and debates —over nine days, and in a variety of locations throughout Cambridge. </FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A multifaceted, multicultural event, the Cambridge Science Festival will make science accessible, interactive and fun, and will highlight the impact of science in everyone’s lives. </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Festival organizers invite the MIT community to submit ideas and proposals, based on this year’s Festival themes, for individual events to be independently produced by the submitting group or individual, with some support from the organizers. All student projects will be coordinated by Sally Susnowitz through the Public Service Center.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The overarching theme for the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival is Science in the City</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Four sub-themes—Innovations, Science & the Arts, Energy & the Environment, and Science in Everyday Life</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">— will provide unity and structure to all Festival events.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Participants are asked to submit an application including a brief description of their event, along with support materials related to their project, by December 15, 2006.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Events will be selected based on audience appeal, technical feasibility, site availability and funding.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Participants will be notified by January 15, 2007.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For Festival guidelines and an application or for more information on the Cambridge Science Festival, visit cambridgesciencefestival.org, call </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">3-6914 or contact Sally Susnowitz (</FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:susnowit@mit.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">susnowit@mit.edu</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">) at 8-7344.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>