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MINDBENDER MANSION
Enter the wonderful world of Mindbender Mansion, where a plethora of puzzles promise to keep your neural pathways limber. Think push-ups for the brain! Work your way through each of the mansion rooms, solving tabletop brainteasers as you go, or test your teamwork skills on one of the large-scale group activities. Solve enough puzzles and gather enough clues and you can join the ranks of the worldís greatest problem solvers, the Mindbender Society.
But donít be misled. While this exhibit is fun and a little bit wacky, at its heart is the essential scientific task of problem solving: identifying patterns, thinking ahead, logical reasoning, and looking at problems from different perspectives. In short, you practice the skills needed to solve challenges on a global and everyday scale.
Have a blast with the following group challenges:
Feeding Frenzy: Kitchen mayhem is guaranteed in a race to beat the clock by filling TV dinner trays (with five kinds of food) on a fast moving conveyer belt.
Flying Machine: Solid teamwork is a must in order to maneuver a flying machine around a large game board hitting six targets in sequence before the time is up.
Spelling Fever: Hopscotch meets Scrabble in this race to spell correct words within a limited amount of time by hopping on letter squares that light up.
Move and Match: Dinner time was never this much fun! Slide your dining room chairs on wheels into a correct pattern before the clock runs out.
Amazing Maze: In this version of the classic steel ball labyrinth game, visitors must work together to tilt a table in different directions, guiding a ball into several holes as quickly as possible.
Upon completing a select number of group challenges and individual tabletop brainteasers, you'll have enough clues and secret passwords to become a member of the Mindbender Society and add your portrait to the "Wall of Fame." Fun for all ages!
Anything You Can Do by Jennifer Steinkamp
Oct. 11—Jan. 3
Anything You Can Do is an interactive swing set that visitors can ride to create unique light and sound effects. Anything You Can Do will be on display Oct. 11, 2008—Jan. 3, 2009, in OMSI's Earth Science Hall.
Anything You Can Do consists of two swings and a projected video image with a soundtrack that changes as participants swing. Each of the two swings controls a layer of the image and each has its own soundtrack. As the participants swing, the two video layers then combine to form a single image. There are progressively changing sounds for each of the movements and the experience is heightened through bodily participation and play.
Moneyville
Oct. 28, 2008–Jan. 11, 2009
OMSI invites visitors to explore the history, science, math, and economics behind money when select components from the original Moneyville exhibit return for a limited engagement Oct. 28-Jan. 11. Moneyville uses the familiar and fascinating subject of money to build math skills and promote economic literacy in a fun, interactive environment. Explore how money is made, who invented it, and what it takes to play the stock market. Learn More>
Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
Photos taken under a microscope
Oct. 30–Nov. 19
Winners of the 2008-2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition will be on display outside OMSI's Life Science Hall Oct. 30-Nov. 22. Small World is considered to be the international forum for celebrating art through a microscope. Nikon rewards the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, biomedicine, and materials science. For more information, visit www.nikonsmallworld.com.
Coming in January 2009
Da Vinci–The Genius
Leonardo da Vinci's genius comes to life with interactive reproductions of his inventions and 3D plasma presentations of his paintings. Highlights include ground-breaking research on the Mona Lisa that has startled the art world.
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