Every parent wants to give the best to their children and Indian parents are no different. But Indian parents are focused on giving the best education for their kids, and spend lots of money and time on their kids enrolling them in the best possible school, sending them to extra curricular activities, tuitions,buying books, toys. Two events Kid Zania opening in Mumbai and Edinburgh International Science Festival caught my attention where tickets are priced for more than Rs 500. Are we ready to spend 500 Rs for one day activity to provide exposure to role play and science festival?
KidZania in Mumbai
KidZania is an indoor family edutainment theme park that emulates the working of a real city and engages kids aged 4 to 14 years through role-play. Kids can choose from 80+ roles to play via 60+ establishments at KidZania. They can be a Pilot, Doctor, Firefighter, Chef and much more in a city built to scale for them! The theme-park features over 60 establishments includingbanks (Yes Bank miniature), university, fire department, radio station (Radio City branded), chocolate factory (Cadbury Dairy Milk branded), shopping store (Central and Big Bazaar miniatures), newspaper office (Times of India) and a doughnut store (branded by Mad Over Donuts), amongst others. A few other establishments that are unique to KidZania Mumbai include Bollywood Acting Academy, pottery studio, KalaShetra Art (culture club) and dabbawala (boxed lunch delivery service). KidZania Mumbai is being launched with 21 brands that include Big Bazaar, Birla Sun Life Insurance, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Central, Coca-Cola, Godrej Security Systems, Hardy’s, Hyundai, Kellogg’s’ Chocos, Mad over Donuts, Radio City, Star India, Times of India and YES Bank. Every activity at KidZania is aimed at inspiring, educating, entertaining and empowering children through real-life role play experiences
Kidzania at Mumbai
KidZania’s 14th operational outlet in the world was inaugurated by Shah Rukh Khan on August 29. Other KidZania outlets are in countries like Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand and United Arab Emirates. Shahrukh khan is 26 per cent strategic stakeholder of KidZania . Though people might doubt his acting capability his business acumen is commendable. Next KidZania outlet will come up in Delhi, tentatively by 2015. The Delhi outlet will be followed by an outlet in Bengaluru.
The indoor park is open all seven days a week, with ticket prices in the range of Rs 1000 per kid.
Are Parents and teachers today are looking for new ways to motivate children and would such role plays help?
Learn more about Kidzania at Kidzania webpage
Edinburgh International Science Festival in Bangalore
Edinburgh International Science Festival is the an exciting science festival comes for the first time to India in Bangalore. The 10 day long festival will take place from 30th August – 8th September 2013 at Bhartiya City, Bangalore. Over 25 years the festival has been making science fun, exciting and engaging for young minds. The 10-day festival is demonstrating a slew of scientific projects and programmes to infuse spirit of enquiry and build scientific temper in the younger generation such as the science behind automatic doors in James Bond movies or the coldest substance on Earth, the nine-day event has something in store for everyone. Among the events being held at the festival include
- The Emergency Room (ER) Surgery, where students will gain first-hand experience in the working of an operating theatre and what it’s like to be a doctor. Each student helps to treat a deep leg wound and performs keyhole surgery using real surgical equipment. They gain experience with a minor surgical procedure to remove a cyst and learn how and why blood samples are taken.
- Splatastic, students will explore properties of different polymers and make colourful gooey snakes, observe a liquid-to-solid chemical reaction, produce designer slime and test it on Splatometer.
- In Adventure Robots, participants build and control Lego Mindstorm Robots by learning to use basic computer programming software.
- In Math Masters, students learn tips and tricks for super fast mental math calculations and solve puzzles to develop lateral thinking.
Edinburgh science festival Bangalore
About 50,000 visitors, including school children and their parents are expected to visit the fest, which will last till Sep 8.
Tickets :
- Child below 18 years : Rs. 500
- Adults (above 18 years) : Rs 300
- Family Pass (2 adults, 2 kids) : Rs 1300
Festival Timings:
- Weekdays: Monday to Friday
- For Schools: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- For Public: 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Weekends: Saturday and Sunday:
- Public: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
- EMERGENCY ROOM : Every hour starting 11.30am to 2.30pm; 4-6pm; 6.30pm
- SPLASTIC : Every hour starting 11.30am to 2.30pm; 4-6pm; 6.30pm
- WORLD OF BUBBLES : Every half hour starting 11.10am to 4.40pm
- LIGHTING ROOM, SOUND SHAPES, CHEMICAL MANIA : Every half hour starting 11.15am-4.45pm
- THE COLDEST SHOW ON EARTH : Noon, 2.30pm, 5pm, 7pm
- ELECTRONICS AND MECHANICS : Every 45 minutes starting 11.15am-7.30pm
- MATHS MASTERS : Every 45 minutes starting 11.15am-4.45pm
- ADVENTURE ROBOTS : Every hour starting 11.30am to 6.30pm
More about Edinburgh International Science Festival on their webpage Edinburgh International Science Festival, facebook Science Festival on Facebook
Do such festivals kindle children’s interest in science and nurture love for exploring the domain? Would you take your child to such a science festival?
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Both are so informative and a great exposure that I wish I could take my kids to both. The money is not a big amount when it comes to this kind of learning because what you experience is what you remember the best.
Both are so informative and a great exposure that I wish I could take my kids to both. The money is not a big amount when it comes to this kind of learning because what you experience is what you remember the best.