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Stop the "Summer Brain Drain" with Some "At-Home" Summer Science!CHICAGO --(Business Wire)-- For the second summer in a row, the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI (News - Alert)) will offer families the opportunity to keep kids engaged in fun learning over the summer with its Summer Brain Games program. The program features eight weeks of free and fun at-home science experiments designed to combat the "summer brain drain," when kids risk losing two months' worth of critical learning that can set them back during the next school year. Summer Brain Games runs June 17 through Aug. 12, 2013 and features a FREE online activity guide with weekly experiments that explore "summery" science themes. The Summer Brain Games activity guide is available in both English and Spanish, and fun "follow-along" videos from MSI's staff scientists help kids learn along the way. This summer, families can watch plants grow wthout soil in a hydroponic garden, explore engineering skills and simple machines by building a Rube Goldberg machine, and even make their own weather station! All activities use inexpensive items-many that can be found around the house-making this program accessible to all families. In addition to promoting this program to families across Chicago and the nation, the Museum is teaming up with the Chicago Public Library to bring Summer Brain Games to more than 60,000 Chicago kids through the Rahm's Readers summer learning program. Participating children will receive the Summer Brain Games activity guide and be able to do experiments at library branches across the city. Also, 24 of the Museum's teen interns will visit 24 library branches to engage children in Summer Brain Games. The teen interns will also host student groups from the libraries on a free field trip to MSI. "The enthusiasm for Summer Brain Games shows there's a definite need and desire for educational activities that engage kids during the summer," said Bryan Wunar, the Museum's director of community initiatives. "It's a critical time in which we need to keep kids thinking and learning." Families who register to be "summer brainiacs" at msichicago.org/summerbrain receive a voucher good for a FREE Museum Entry ticket to MSI (one per household).
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