Miscellaneous Mentionables

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MONSTER JAM® SEARCHES FOR GUEST CORRESPONDENT OF ITS PATH OF DESTRUCTION TOUR
Contest Winner to Conduct Behind-the-Scenes Interviews with Drivers and Crew at First Ever Metro Area MetLife Stadium Show on Saturday, June 16, 2012
NEW YORK, NY (May 22, 2012) – Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam is holding a contest searching for one lucky person to serve as guest correspondent at its June 16th PATH OF DESTRUCTION show stop in the New York area. The winner will conduct interviews with drivers and crew members alongside Speed Network’s Scott Douglass and document the behind-the-scenes mayhem. Contestants can demonstrate their skills by uploading an audition video at www.monsterjam.com/correspondent.
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam® brings an all-new event, PATH OF DESTRUCTIONSM, the largest summer stadium event of epic chaos ever to enter MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Jets and the New York Giants! Monster Jam PATH OF DESTRUCTION roars into East Rutherford on Saturday, June 16 with a truck line-up that is three times greater than the New York tri-state area has ever seen.
Colossal bragging rights may belong to East Rutherford, in a feat never-before-seen, as fans bear witness to ten-time Monster Jam World Finals Champion Maximum Destruction® and driver Tom Meents, attempting to complete, for the very first time, a double back flip!
PATH OF DESTRUCTION is the largest Monster Jam event to be produced outside of the elite Monster Jam World FinalsSM held annually in Las Vegas, NV. For the first time more than 4,000 tons of dirt will be brought inside MetLife Stadium along with 50 crush cars, vans and buses to create the vast Monster Jam PATH OF DESTRUCTION racing track and obstacle course. The fleet of 16 of the most popular Monster Jam trucks will battle against one another in racing and outrageous freestyle competitions with jumps, wheelies, donuts, cyclones and more!
Monster Jam events are affordably priced for the whole family with seats starting at $35 for adults and $15 for kids. Advance Auto Parts will be offering fans a discount offer to SAVE $5 on adult tickets. Saving coupons will be available in participating Advance Auto Parts stores starting May 28, 2012. Tickets are available at the MetLife Stadium Box Office, the IZOD Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at MonsterJam.com, Ticketmaster.com or charge by phone 800.745.3000.
Feld Motor Sports, Inc. is the world leader in specialized arena and stadium-based motor sports entertainment. Feld Motor Sports, Inc. productions include Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam®, Monster Energy® Supercross, AMA Arenacross Series, Nuclear Cowboyz℠, and IHRA® Nitro Jam®. Feld Motor Sports is a division of Feld Entertainment, the world’s largest producer of live family entertainment. For more information on Feld Entertainment, visit www.feldentertainment.com.
SESAME STREET MUPPETS HELP KIDS BECOME RESILIENT!
‘WHAT WE ARE’ ANTHEM DEBUTS ON THE INTREPID IN NYC IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
Elmo, Rosita and Gordon Perform Live with the Quantico Marine Corps Band and Matt Rogers, Host of Lifetime’s Coming Home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, New York, May 23, 2012. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, kicks off its newest outreach initiative, Little Children, Big Challenges, for military, veteran, and general public families with young children. This initiative aims to provide the skills and strategies young children need to build resilience and persevere through day-to-day as well as more serious changes and transitions. Early childhood has been emphasized as a crucial time for promoting resilience, as it can lead to a significant impact on children’s well-being and future success in all areas of life.[1],[2] Little Children, Big Challenges will kick off with a new anthem, What We Are, which will be performed live on the Intrepid (Saturday, May 26th) by the Quantico Marine Corps Band with Sesame Street’s Gordon, Elmo and Rosita, and the host of Lifetime’s Coming Home, Matt Rogers.
Here is an excerpt from the new anthem:
CHORUS
Muppets: Oh, going to hold our heads up high
Kids: High!
Muppets: Keep on reaching high!
Kids: High!
Muppets: Never gonna quit
Just keep getting stronger!
And nothing’s gonna bring us down
Kids: No!
Muppets: Never givin’ up gotta go
Kids: Go!
Muppets: Because we know, we’ll keep getting stronger!
“Sesame Workshop has always been at the forefront of creating resources for families with young children to help address some of life’s most difficult issues.” said H. Melvin Ming, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop. “Little Children, Big Challenges is Sesame Workshop’s contribution to all those who face the challenge of helping a child cope with life’s highs and lows and help our kids reach their highest potential.”
Little Children, Big Challenges is a multiyear, bilingual (English/Spanish) initiative that will provide tools to help encourage parents, caregivers, and educators to use positive routines to help foster young children’s resilience on a daily basis. This initiative will help all children cope with trying new things, learning from mistakes, making new friends, resolving conflicts, the bedtime blues, and understanding their own abilities. In addition to helping children cope with these day-to-day challenges, Little Children Big Challenges will also tackle more serious changes and transitions such as bullying, and when parents are divorced or incarcerated. Sesame Workshop is committed to providing free multimedia resources to all families raising preschoolers and these kits will be distributed through partnerships with Military OneSource, the Military Child Education Coalition and the USO. Additionally, Sesame Workshop will distribute to general public families through partnerships with parenting, child-care, health, and education programs, social work organizations, counselors and psychologists, and bullying prevention organizations.
The What We Are anthem will be available on Sesame Street’s website for military families, as well as Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel. In addition, new online resources for Little Children, Big Challenges will feature the anthem along with new interactive tools for children and families. Finally, in conjunction with this event, major updates to Sesame’s Feel Electric! mobile app, a free resilience tool for school-aged children, will be available on May 26, 2012 for Apple iPod, iPhone and Android devices.
Major support for Little Children, Big Challenges provided by BAE Systems, Inc. Generous support provided by The Prudential Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, the USO, and Military Child Education Coalition.
In the June 1st episode of Lifetime’s Coming Home, Sesame Street’s very own Elmo and Rosita, along with host, Matt Rogers, travel all the way to Fort Bliss, Texas, to put together a once-in-a-lifetime surprise for the children of an Army sergeant who are having an especially hard time with their father’s deployment in Iraq. Not a day goes by that Tristan and Alyssa Bomarito don’t miss their father Sgt. Mark Bomarito. To Tristan, Mark is not just Dad, he’s his best friend. In one of the series’ most emotional and heartfelt moments Elmo and Rosita enlist the help of a General to bring the children of Fort Bliss together and create a surprise this family will never forget.
About Sesame Workshop: Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization that revolutionized children’s television programming with the landmark Sesame Street. The Workshop produces local Sesame Street programs, seen in over 150 countries, and other acclaimed shows including The Electric Company, to help bridge the literacy gap. Beyond television, the Workshop produces content for multiple media platforms on a wide range of issues including literacy, health and military deployment. Initiatives meet specific needs to help young children and families develop critical skills, acquire healthy habits and build emotional strength to prepare them for lifelong learning. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org.
Visit Sesame Street at:
www.sesamestreet.org
Sesame Street on Facebook
Sesame Street on Twitter
The Sesame Street YouTube Channel
Learn more about Sesame Street’s Military Family Initiative: Sesame Street for Military Families on Facebook
Liberty Science Center Special Events Summer 2012
There’s powerful summer fun in store with two new exhibitions and a full menu of great activities.
Liberty State Park, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Why visit LSC this summer? Studies show that children who receive extra summer enrichment do better in school the following fall. Don’t let your family’s mind go mushy this vacation! Come learn, laugh, grow, and thrive in the best place for summer fun – Liberty Science Center! Check the website often as we add new activities all summer long.
New! Got Power? Exhibition Ongoing. It’s power to the people! Learn about recent advances in solar and wind energy technologies that make it even easier to create and save power at home. Test your energy use profile and learn how solar panels work. Focus light on your car’s solar panel to speed to the finish line with Solar Racecars, then jump on an exercise machine to create your own power. Enlist others to help and you’ll set off a celebratory LED fireworks display! Got Power? is the latest in the Breakthroughs series of original exhibitions about science in everyday life created by Liberty Science Center.Suitable for ages 8 and up. Free with paid admission or membership.
New! In the Dark Exhibition
Through September 3, explore cool, dark and mysterious ecosystems like caves, forests, the ocean floor – and your own backyard at night! Learn more about nocturnal animals, shade-loving plants, and how we humans get along in the dark. We’ll take you to the deepest part of the ocean to see fish that use glowing lures to hunt, and to the treetops with insects that advertise their fitness with light. Enjoy hands-on activities and amazing dioramas! A traveling exhibit organized by Cincinnati Museum Center. Suitable for ages 3 and up. Free with paid admission or membership.
Special Glowing Summer Activities
In celebration of the new exhibition, In the Dark, Liberty Science Center is lighting up the dark with great weekend activities for almost every age. All are free with paid admission or membership.
May 26 — Going Bats (and we’re not talking baseball) What’s the creepiest, scariest, most helpful, and least harmful creature around? The bat! These heroes of the night skies eat pesky pests from mosquitoes to biting flies and should be applauded for their work. Meet live bats from the Wildlife Conservation and Education Center and learn why they are important and how you can help them prosper. Suitable for ages 3 and up. Free with paid admission or membership. In the Forum from 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Saturdays & Sundays May 26 – September 2
Bubbling Lamp — What things glow in your home? Discover which household items light up under UV light, then create a bubbling lamp using common household products. You’ll be amazed! Learn what makes these items glow and take your bubbling lamp home. Suitable for ages 7 and up. Free with paid admission or membership while supplies last. From 11:00 am- 3:00 pm.
Instant Glow — Animals use eyesight, hearing, smell, and touch to navigate at night. Are you able to see in the dark? Create a chemical concoction in a mini-test tube to create an instant glow. What created the glowing light? Chemical luminescence! Learn how animals in nature, from fireflies to deep sea fish, produce light. Suitable for ages 7 and up. . Free with paid admission or membership while supplies last. From 11:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Saturdays June 1 – September 1 – Crazy Glowing Bubbles
Make crazy, glow-in-the-dark bubbles! Take weird shapes and use them to create amazing bubbles using safe, all-natural substances. They glow so brightly you can even see them shine in daylight! Suitable for ages 4 and up. Free with membership or paid admission. 12:00- 3:00 pm.
Saturdays & Sundays June 16 – September 2
We Explore: GLOW! In the Dark –To learn about the dark, first we need to understand light! Using black light tables, children ages 2-5 learn about a wide variety of fluorescent and glow-in-the-dark materials. They’ll experiment with the light spectrum, rainbows, and UV rays, and learn the amazing ways animals can see colors. Reserved for children ages 2-5 with an adult. Free with paid admission or membership. Programs at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, and 12:30 pm.
Detective-in-the-Dark and Glowing Bubbles — Be a detective-in-the-dark and use UV light to find fingerprints! Explore and play with a wide variety of glow–in-the-dark toys and materials, and have a blast with slimy and amazing Glow Goop and Glow-In-The-Dark Bubbles! Suitable for ages 7 and up. Free with paid admission or membership while supplies last. From 1:30 – 3:00 pm.
Animals After Dark: A Flashlight Adventure! — When the lights go out, the animal world comes alive! Step into the dark and join our intrepid educators as they search for scorpions that glow bright green owls that fly without making a sound, fish that hunt in pitch black waters by creating their own light, and more! Travel to exotic locations by flashlight and experience some of the amazing ways animals have adapted to life after the sun goes down. Suitable for ages 7 and up. Free with paid admission or membership. Seating is limited and sign up is required. Check website or inquire at the Welcome Desk for show times.
And don’t miss:
June 23 – RetroScience — Try your hand at retro science fun in this monthly series. For June, you’ll crack up as you prepare an egg for a safe landing after a long fall. Space scientists must know how to land rovers and sensors intact on other planets. Can you figure out how to protect an egg from breaking as you drop it one or two stories into the Center’s Governor Hall atrium? Recommended for guests ages 6 and up. Free with membership or paid admission. 11:00 am – 3:00 pm.
July 28 & 29 – All About Construction Weekend — If you have ever wanted to clamber onto giant machinery or fit your whole family into a backhoe scoop, here’s your chance! Join members of the Construction Industry Advancement Program (CIAP) of New Jersey as you explore big machines, enjoy great activities and free handouts, and learn about careers in the construction industry. Suitable for ages 3 and up. In the parking lot. Free. 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.
For more information, please call 201.200.1000 or visit LSC.org. Find us on Facebook!