Birthday Bash at the SD Discovery Center

It's the South Dakota Discovery Center's 20th birthday. Consider it your birthday, too. you are invited to the first birthday party of the year. The "Helloooo, Sumer!" Birthday Bash is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This birthday party will include lots of birthday classics: a jumping castle, cupcakes and soap bubble blowing. Plus, the fun traveling exhibit, Toy Tech is featured in the exhibit hall. You can even enter to win a free birthday party of your own at the SD Discovery Center. Toy Tech is a neat exhibit from the Ed Sobey, founder of the Northwest Invention Center and the author of many great science books for kids including, "Fantastic Flying Fun!" and "Inventing with Toys". Adults and kids enjoy viewing some of the "World's Greatest Toys: How Toys Work", has toys pulled apart so you can see "magic" that happens inside them. At the Toy Workshop, guests can design paper helicopters and fly them in the wind tunnel or paper rockets that can be launched to reach the Center's 2-story ceiling! For this birthday weekend the SD Discovery Center is open from 1:00pm to 5:00pm on Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday and 1:00pm to 5;00pm on Sunday. The birthday day party will be over, but the fun exhibits will still be open on Monday (Memorial Day) from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. As always, members and children up to 3 years old get in free. Adult fees are $4.00 and fees for children 4-12 are $3.00. Rates for groups of 10 or more are available. For more information on the SD Discovery Center, memberships and future birthday celebrations, go to www.sd-discovery.com. The birthday celebrations are supported by the SD Department of Tourism's Governors Million Dollar Challenge Program.