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Bronx Children's Museum celebrates City of Water Day - July 13, 2019

  • Jun 20, 2019
  • 1 min read

Bronx Children’s Museum is proud to host its first annual City of Water Day "In Your Neighborhood" event at Mill Pond Park.

Join us for a fun-filled day on the shores of the Harlem River exploring and learning about water and how it connects us all.

Saturday, July 13, from 10am - 2pm, Bronx Children’s Museum is offering water-themed art activities and science experiments for all. Our big purple Museum On the Go! bus will be on hand for free tours featuring our current exhibit Waters On the Go! exploring the natural habitats of the Bronx and Harlem Rivers and Orchard Beach.

City of Water Day Now in its 12th year, City of Water Day is a free New York Harbor-wide day organized by the Waterfront Alliance and its partners to get people to, on, and in the water. The day’s activities champion the shared goal of a climate resilient New York Harbor that is prepared for rising seas and increased coastal storms. Dozens of communities in New York and New Jersey host City of Water Day events in celebration of our region’s 1,600 miles of coastline. In collaboration with the New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program, In Your Neighborhood events this year include 50 free waterfront events, with nearly 100 participating organizations, across all five boroughs, Westchester County, and New Jersey. For a list of all City of Water Day events, visit: https://waterfrontalliance.org/what-we-do/city-of-water-day/

For more information, contact Nicole Wallace, Director of STEAM Programming & External Affairs nicole@bronxchildrensmuseum.org

 
 
 

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Eileen Dai
Eileen Dai
Feb 25

As a volunteer for local youth programs, I found this article very helpful for planning our next summer outing. The focus on climate awareness through art is brilliant. I drafted a lesson plan based on these BXCM activities using Markdown, but many of the other parents needed a traditional format. I used Markdown To Word to quickly convert my plans into a clean Word document for the committee meeting. It’s so much more efficient than copying and pasting everything manually!

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Eileen Dai
Eileen Dai
Feb 25

Our family had such a blast at City of Water Day 2019! The hands-on experiments from the Brooklyn Children's Museum really helped my kids understand marine ecosystems in a fun way. I’ve been keeping a digital scrapbook of all our museum trips and educational activities in Markdown. MarkdownCoonverter has been an absolute lifesaver for me—it allows me to turn my Markdown journals into beautiful PDFs that I can print out for our family albums. It's the perfect way to preserve these memories!

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Mike White
Mike White
Jan 09

This sounds like a fantastic event! The Bronx Children's Museum hosting City of Water Day "In Your Neighborhood" at Mill Pond Park with water-themed activities and their "Museum On the Go!" bus is a brilliant way to engage children with the natural habitats of our rivers. It's so important to teach kids about our waterways and climate resilience. For anyone looking to inspire creativity, perhaps even themed around water and nature, I'd recommend checking out Image to Prompt. It could be a really cool tool for generating unique ideas!

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Mike White
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Jan 09

What a fantastic initiative by the Bronx Children's Museum! Hosting their first annual City of Water Day "In Your Neighborhood" event at Mill Pond Park sounds like a truly enriching experience for families, especially with the water-themed art activities and science experiments. And having the Museum On the Go! bus with its "Waters On the Go!" exhibit is brilliant for kids to learn about the Bronx and Harlem River habitats. It's inspiring to see how City of Water Day highlights the importance of our waterways and climate resilience. For anyone looking for another helpful online tool, I recently discovered Merge JPG, which is great for combining images quickly and privately.

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