SUMMER SERIES ADDS WELLER HEALTH ADVENTURE PROGRAMS
FAST FACTS
- The Weller Health
Education Center will present its Health Adventure multimedia programs at
the Da Vinci Science Center Thursdays from July 16-Aug. 6 as part of the science
center’s 2009 Summer Series.
- Health Adventures
program lets guests unravel 23 feet of small intestine from a digestive apron
and participate in a “get-moving” mini-workout.
- Announcement
made as Da Vinci Science Center adopted Stuffee, a local icon made famous
during his nine-year stay at the Weller Center.
RELEASE
DATE
July 9, 2009
The Weller Health Education Center will present its Health Adventure multimedia programs at the Da Vinci Science Center on Thursdays as part of the science center’s 2009 Summer Series.
The Da Vinci Science Center announced the Health Adventure programs today as it completed its adoption of Stuffee – the iconic blue-haired ambassador of health who called the Weller Health Education Center home for nine years
One of the Weller Center’s most popular outreach programs, Health Adventures will be performed in four 20-minute shows on July 16, 23, 30, and Aug. 6. The programs are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. on those dates. Health Adventures encourages guests to discover why healthy eating is so important for energy and overall good health through this look at the digestive system. Guests will unravel 23 feet of small intestine from a digestive apron and participate in a “get-moving” mini-workout.
The Health Adventures
programs will be included with paid Da Vinci Science Center admission.
ABOUT THE WELLER HEALTH
EDUCATION CENTER
The mission of the Weller Health Education Center is to measurably improve
children's lives by giving students the tools they need to make informed and
healthy life choices. Each year the Center partners with more than 500 schools
to supplement and enhance the teaching of health, character education and
life science for students grades K through 12. In the fall of 2008, the Weller
Health Education Center began providing its award-winning health education
programs exclusively in schools and other learning centers throughout the
organization's 39-county service area. The Weller Health Education Center
was the first not-for-profit health promotion, disease prevention education
facility of its kind in Pennsylvania. Serving more than 1.3 million children
since its inception in 1982, the Weller Center remains the only such center
in our 39-county service area and one of just 34 health education centers
across the nation.
ABOUT DA VINCI SCIENCE
CENTER
The Da Vinci Science Center is an independent nonprofit organization that
promotes hands-on science learning through inquiry, highlights vibrant and
important career opportunities in science available to every young person,
and encourages all people to embrace curiosity, creativity, and imagination.
The Center delivered upon its mission in 2008 to approximately 75,000 people
through its dynamic exhibit floor, which features more than 200 hands-on exhibits;
its professional development programs for teachers, including its signature
Da Vinci Teacher Leader Institute for elementary teachers; its public programming;
and its outreach programs, including its Visiting Scientist Lab (VSL) programs
and After-School Science Lab (ASL) programs. The Da Vinci Science Center stresses
the inquiry method. Utilized by scientists and recognized as the most effective
way to learn, the inquiry method encourages questioning, experimenting actively,
observing, communicating results, and connecting all knowledge. Additional
information can be found on the web at www.davinci-center.org.
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