Childen are invited to participate in one of the world’s biggest science conferences, the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with a range of educational and artistic activities.
During the Meeting’s Family Science Days, which will be held on 18-19 February 2012, children can meet scientists, launch their own rockets, learn about alien planets and much more. Furthermore, the NRC-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and the Canadian Association of Science Centres, in partnership with Science.gc.ca (The Government of Canada’s Science and Technology site), will organise its National Science Art Exhibit for the event.
For this art exhibition, children from all over the world are asked to create a picture about what science means to them, with submissions ‘hung’ in a virtual gallery. The grand opening for the virtual gallery is during the AAAS Annual Meeting, to an audience that will include some of the world’s top scientists.
The deadline to submit your artwork is 1 February 2012, so entrants will have to get their creative thinking caps on. For inspiration, the video below shows some of the best artwork submitted in previous years.
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