WASHINGTON, DC – The DC area Celebra la Ciencia coalition will be present at Adams Morgan Day Kids’ Fair with over 20 bilingual hands-on health science exhibits, take-home health science activities, snake skins and bones, a live interactive show on the five senses and more! What better way to start off the school year than by learning about your health and the sciences as a family at a festival celebrating your neighborhood? Join Celebra la Ciencia in this free all-day celebration of family-friendly, alcohol-free, music, food, culture and science. It’s all part of Celebra la Ciencia’s goal, to generate greater interest in the sciences among Latino youth. The event will take place on the Marie Reed Learning Center field, on California Street between 18th Street and Chaplain.

Celebra la Ciencia’s coalition will have various booths set up at the festival, giving kids, parents, and the public the opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on science activities and experiments from the DC Asthma Coalition, Community Science Workshop and the Self Reliance Foundation. Our exhibits and activities allow kids and their families to discover how science can be fun and how important it is in their lives. Our health science exhibits (all in both English and Spanish) include puzzles that feature the function and form of different organs, a balancing table and bar, comparative brain and skeleton activities, and more.

Celebra la Ciencia is a nationwide project organized by the Self-Reliance Foundation that builds coalitions among museums, schools, and other community organizations that work to connect Hispanic students and their parents with resources and informal learning opportunities that can help develop a strong science background and the love of inquiry needed to succeed in school and in science careers. The other Celebra la Ciencia coalitions are located in Albuquerque, Chicago, Los Angeles, Yakima and the TriCities area (Washington State).
One of Celebra la Ciencia’s goals is to improve the following statistics:

• Today, 75% of Hispanic students in the U.S. score below basic proficiency in standardized tests in math and science by the time they reach the 8th grade

• Hispanics are less likely to have health care coverage than non-Hispanics and are also less likely to have a regular health care provider

Parents are key players in encouraging their kids to take an interest in the health sciences and to pursue health and biomedical science careers. In addition to hands-on activities, Celebra la Ciencia also provides families with information printed in English and Spanish on public and personal health concerns such as asthma, diabetes and cancer, as well as information on how parents can best help their children do well in school.
For more information on the Celebra la Ciencia project visit us
at our website:www.celebralaciencia.org.