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FLL is a result of an impressive alliance between FIRST and the LEGO Company. Guided by adult mentors and their own imaginations, FLL students solve real-world engineering challenges, develop important life skills, and learn to make positive contributions to society. It is an international program for children ages 9-14 years (9-16 years in Europe) that combines a hands-on, interactive
robotics program in a sports-like atmosphere. Teams consist of up to 10 players with the focus on haracteristics, such as team-building, problem-solving, creativity, and analytical thinking.

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Jem Finer’s LONGPLAYER is an attempt to make sense of a span of time. Emanating from one present moment into the unfolding future of the next thousand years, it provides a projection of growth and change. A thousand-year musical composition, it will play continuously and without repetition from 1 January 2000 until its completion on 31 December 2999.

In parallel with the second anniversary of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the PSC organized a festivity called Science Week. This festivity was open to all the public for free.

The ALEXploratorium team decided to conclude the summer activities with a play where all the children who participated in our summer workshop took part, each representing a certain celestial object. It was a spectacle manifesting all the things they learned in the astronomy workshop.

They were all super!! Specially our heroes:

In collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Medical Insurance Organization, a series of lectures were given to children by dentists about tooth protection, mechanisms of caries, ideal methods of tooth-brushing. Following the lectures, a workshop was organized to introduce different parts of the tooth.

In July 2004, the Planetarium Science Center in collaboration with the British Council, hosted a series of events highlighting the contribution of scientists in the discovery of the secret of life; the DNA. The exhibition was an interactive experience telling the story of research and breakthroughs in bioscience beginning with the double helix discovery by Watson and Crick in 1953.

A festivity organized with school children to measure the circumference of the Earth via the same method that Eratosthenes used nearly 2000 years ago. On 21 June, a videoconference between the Library, Aswan and one school in France took place. 

Coming soon: June Eratosthenes 2005.

The event QLSPA - Quand les sciences parlent Arabe - is about the Arab sciences from the eighteenth to the fifteenth Century.

A workshop targeting the young public aiming to raise their awareness about archeological researches took place at the ALEXploratorium. The students were placed under the same conditions and given the same tools used by experts during rummage.

The transit of a planet across the Sun is a rare phenomenon. From Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possibly seen. On Wednesday, 7 May 2003, Mercury made the transit across the Sun for the first time since 1999. This event was widely observed from many locations around the world. In the PSC, the library visitors had the chance to observe the transit using the Sun spotter.

On 21 June 2003, thirty students from different schools measured the Earth's circumference following the same method as Eratosthenes. This event took place at the Plaza of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

The second sundial designed that depends on the latitude of Alexandria is located in the Plaza as well.

Mr. Omar Fikry, the resident astronomer at the Planetarium Science center (PSC), made all the astronomical calculations for the horizontal sundial according to the latitude of the city of Alexandria.

Several sundials are also available in the discovery zone at the ALEXploratorium.

The sundial was designed by Denis Savois and fabricated locally. It is inspired from the ancient method of measuring time using the shadow of the gnomon on a horizontal base. Visitors stand facing North, on a horizontal base where their shadow indicates the time of the day. The dial is made of a metal indicator that points north, and inclined with the latitude of Alexandria on a horizontal base. The sundial is located in the BA Plaza.

On 8 June 2004, specialized and amateur astronomers around the world detected Venus' drift across the face of the Sun as Venus passed between the Sun and Earth. Special solar telescopes, Sun spotters and projection screens for the observation showed the visitors of the Library all phases of this event.

In 2004, Saturn was visible many times before and after midnight, so the PSC made two nights of real observations for the detection of the ringed planet and the approach of the Cassini spacecraft to that giant parent. A lecture about the Cassini and Saturn was organized in this occasion.

On 17 March 2004, concurrent with the book fair festivity organized by the Library of Alexandria, the Planetarium Science Center organized a series of live astronomical observations, lectures and workshops to enhance the astronomical background of the visitors.

The Planetarium Science Center (PSC) of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina won a special prize for the project Exposcience, at the scientific exposition in France held 19-22 July 2004.

Ten children (13-14 year olds) of Saint Vincent Miami school in Alexandria worked on this project for one year. The children compiled a 120-pages book entitled Children Explain Science to Children explaining theories of light, color and optics in a simplified way, using illustrated funny stories.

Congratulations!!!

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On 17 December 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.

On 17 December 2003, the ALEXploratorium organized a flight festivity celebrating the 100^th Anniversary of this historic achievement.

On 19 October 2003, and in collaboration with the British Council, 100 kids of all ages tested their sorcery skills by attending the science magician show and discovering many phenomena related to our daily life.

On 27 August 2003, Mars was nearest to planet Earth. Our team organized a lecture along with the observation of the planet, using Egyptian-made telescopes, in the BA Plaza.

More than 1200 people attended the event.