[bioundgrd] Cambridge Science Festival: Call for Entries!

[MacKenzie Outlund]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 18, 2006



Contact:

                      Kate Bernhardt/Ellen Bluestein

                         (617) 253-6914

                         katebern at mit.edu

                         eblue at mit.edu







CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL

ISSUES CALL FOR ENTRIES

First In the Nation Science Festival Seeks MIT

Participants to Join the Celebration



(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 to MIT students, faculty and staff to contribute  
programming to the Festival this spring.

The Festival will be a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an  
internationally recognized leader in science and technology. It 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. 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.

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.

The overarching theme for the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival is  
Science in the City.  Four sub-themes—Innovations, Science & the  
Arts, Energy & the Environment, and Science in Everyday Life— will  
provide unity and structure to all Festival events.

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.  Events will be selected based  
on audience appeal, technical feasibility, site availability and  
funding.  Participants will be notified by January 15, 2007.

For Festival guidelines and an application or for more information on  
the Cambridge Science Festival, visit cambridgesciencefestival.org, call
3-6914 or contact Sally Susnowitz (susnowit at mit.edu) at 8-7344.





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