Global Citizen Day with an emphasis on girl power with lots of fun and interactive activities, guest speakers, special appearances by Sesame Street characters and more at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, May 30th 2015 from 10am-3pm

" Explore what it means to be a global citizen, here and around the world at the first-ever Global Citizen Day – a FREE public event open to all – boys, girls, and families of all ages! 

Discover how women and girls are transforming the world, participate in hands-on activities and hear from inspiring leaders, creators, advocates, and problem solvers to spark ideas for positive change.

Global Citizen Day highlights:

• Appearances by Raya, the newest member of the Sesame Street family, and photo opportunities with Grover from Sesame Street Workshop

• Hands-on activities that explore how to keep moms and new babies healthy

• Youth empowerment selfie booth 

• Design your own global citizen puppet and t-shirt. 

• Check out the Visitor Center’s interactive exhibits

Plus get connected and meet these other fantastic organizations! 

Schedule: 

• 10:45 am: Inspirational Speaker Series: Camille McDorman - refugee worker, human rights advocate, law student

• 11:30 am: Raya

• 12 pm: Youth Speakers Series: Life Enrichment Group-Young Queens, Eastside GirlUp, Lake Washington Girls Middle School and Kids in Medicine

• 1 pm: Raya

Activities and organizations available 10-3: 

• Girl UP–Are you UP for the challenge millions of girls face every day in just getting water?

• Girls Can Do–How will you change the world in the future? Share your goal in our selfie booth. 

• Heifer International–Discover amazing women and girls working to transform their lives, and enjoy storytime with Flora and the Runaway Rooster. 

• Kids in Medicine–Get hands on with how to keep moms and babies healthy

• Northwest Girls Coalition–Match yourself up with incredible local organizations working with and for girls in our community.

• Project Girl Mentoring Program–What are your best qualities? Share them with the world at the affirmation station. 

• Sesame Workshop/ Sesame Street–Enjoy appearances by Raya at 11:30 and 1, and meet her friend Grover throughout the day. 

• UNICEF–Explore how simple it can be to save lives and stay healthy, take home many ideas to make a difference. 

• YWCA’s GirlsFirst–Find out about equity in education and sign up to help with the YWCA Schools Days donation drive all summer long. " 

Food for Purchase available from these great vendors during lunchtime: 

• Biscuit Box

• No Bones About It

• Seattle Pops 

• Street Treats

For more info. go here.

Innovation Day with hands-on activities and more for families at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, October 4th 2014 from 10am-3pm

These are always very cool events...go and check them out!

" Join us to celebrate innovation and explore ideas that help improve lives around the world at Innovation Day on October 4th. Admission is free for all ages. 

• See inspiring inventions designed to help improve 
lives around the world
• Meet student innovators
• Design a tool to carry vaccines
• Build your own models to solve real world problems
• Explore hands-on activities for the whole family

Who You'll Meet at Innovation Day: 
Artefact Group • Critical Practices LLC • FSOI Development Partners & Synapse Product Development • Fundacion in Terris • Kidsquest Children’s Museum • Pacific Science Center • PATH • Seattle Biomed • SPLASH2O • UW College of Engineering • Washington FIRST Robotics • Water 1st International "

For more info. go here.

Family Day: Food For Good with all kinds of hands-on activities, storytelling, performances and more at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, April 5th 2014 from 10am-3pm

" Discover how to grow, prepare, and enjoy healthy foods from around the world through fun activities, music and storytelling. Join us for the FREE Family Day: Food for Good on Saturday, April 5th.

Highlights of the day will include:
• Hands-on games and art activities that show how easy and exciting it can be to make a difference – one seed or book at a time
• Innovative tools and ideas that help farmers and families around the world
• Storytime with children's book authors Katherine Pryor and Rick Swan who will lead kids in a discussion about gardening and the importance of trying new foods
• Discovering fun, family-friendly volunteer opportunities in your community
• Performance by Ocheami
• Sampling food from Tanzania and Ethiopia
• Learning local and global food facts from different community organizations

RSVP to be notified about event updates and to let us know you’re coming! (Note: Facebook RSVP not required to attend).

Who You’ll Find At Family Day:

1,000 Days
Learn about global food and nutrition while sharing your story on what good nutrition means to you. Learn more at www.thousanddays.org.

Beacon Food Forest
Make seed balls for spring planting and get ready to cheer for your favorite worm at the Earthworm Races. Learn more atwww.beaconfoodforest.org.

Bastyr University
Learn about whole foods with hands-on activities led by Bastyr University faculty and students. Learn more at www.bastyr.edu.

Beecher's Flagship Foundation
Learn how to become a food detective and take home a spice pack and recipe for a wholesome, delicious vegetarian chili popular with kids. Learn more at www.flagshipfoundation.org.

Bon Appétit
Discover how local food goes from the farm to the table and what it takes to continue to grow healthy food for our community and future generations. Learn more at www.bamco.com/timeline/farm-to-fork.

City Fruit
Learn about fruit that grows right in your backyard with a dried-fruit tasting game for kids! For more information and for volunteer opportunities, visit cityfruit.org

FareStart
Sample kid-friendly healthy snacks. Learn more at www.farestart.org.

Green Plate Special
See where vegetables come from and taste a variety of delicious results. Learn more at www.greenplatespecial.org.

Heifer International
Experience what others in the world eat and the importance of small scale farming. Find out how you can help feed others around the world. Learn more at www.heifer.org/what-you-can-do.

Katherine Pryor
Taste spinach through story with children's book author Katherine Pryor who will read her picture book, "Sylvia's Spinach," and lead an optional spinach tasting. Learn more at www.katherinepryor.com.

Ocheami
Immerse yourself in West African culture through drumming, dance, games, and storytelling – Ghana-style. Learn more at www.ocheami.org.

Readers to Eaters
Explore and read a selection of books about food literacy, specially curated by Readers to Eaters for children and families. Learn more atwww.readerstoeaters.com.

Rick Swann
Experience not just how vegetables grow, but how a community can grow from a garden with children's author Rick Swann sharing from his book “Our School Garden!” Learn more at www.rickswann.com/our-school-garden.

The Seattle Public Library
Find out about all the garden, food sustainability and cooking resources available through the library, including the upcoming Edible Gardening series. Learn more at www.spl.org.

Seattle Tilth
Create your own newspaper pot and plant a seed to take home to nurture. Learn more at www.seattletilth.org.

Solid Ground
Help the Lettuce Link program repackage bulk vegetable seeds into individual packets to pass out at food banks. Learn more at: www.solid-ground.org/Programs/Nutrition/Lettuce.

Tanzanian Community
Taste traditional Tanzanian food while exploring recipes, spices and more.

Washington State Fair Traveling Farm
Experience farm fun with interactive learning activities, including matching farming tools to crops and sitting on a child-sized tractor. Learn more at www.thefair.com/education/traveling-farm.

WSU Extension/4-H
Participate in hands-on activities to learn about foods from around the world and how to start your own plants from seeds. Learn more atwww.4h.wsu.edu. "

For more info. go here.

Family Day: The Give Effect with live performances and more at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, December 28th 2013 from 10am-3pm

Visiting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center is always a worthwhile trip for their inspirational, educational and interactive exhibits but these Family Day events make it even more special and fun!

" Join us Saturday, December 28 for a full day of hands-on activities, live performances and speakers that celebrate ways we can give back to our communities. "

For more info. go here.

Two chances to see Caspar Babypants perform! - Saturday, November 30th 2013 at 10:30am in Bellevue and at 2pm in Seattle!

There are two opportunities to see Caspar Babypants perform tomorrow - one in Bellevue, and one in Seattle!

Caspar Babypants will be performing tomorrow at Top Pot Doughnuts in Bellevue at 10:30am and then will perform at 2pm in Seattle at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center's "The Give Effect" event happening from 12-3pm with hands-on activities and more!

For more info. go here and here.

"Family Day: Kids Can" event with performances, arts and crafts, games and more at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Now until 3pm, Saturday, September 28th 2013

Check out this great event happening until 3pm today!

" Are you and your family interested in making a difference, but not sure where to start? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center invites families to Family Day: Kids Can on Saturday, September 28th 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.to experience the countless ways kids can get involved in giving back.

At this free event, kids can participate in a series of arts and crafts, games and activities that use brainpower to make a difference in real time – benefitting local causes across the Puget Sound.

Visitors will also hear inspiring stories from young leaders in community service, get connected with local organizations and enjoy performances that use creative expression to make positive change. 

Lineup includes:

• A performance by Massive Monkees, an internationally known breakdancing group committed to fostering creative expression and positive change
• Rena Mateja Walker Burr, 9 year-old founder of the Kids Helping Kids campaign serving homeless youth
• Madi Williamson, 18 year-old founder of Give for the Game and Nehemiah FC, helping local and international teens through soccer
• Callie Lentz, 9 year-old founder of Callie’s Coffee, benefitting the Ben Towne foundation
• Hope by Twelve, a non-profit empowering girls to change the world
• Volunteer & Engagement fair including local organizations Bike Works, Food Lifeline, PAWS, Ronald McDonald House, Shelter Box, and Word Concern.
• World Vision will be on site helping you to fill a backpack with school supplies and personal care items, as well as a note from you so you can help a kid in another country go to school.
• Inocente, a young artist whose experience with homelessness was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary INOCENTE.

Join us for a memorable day of fun and feel-good activities that will leave your family inspired to give back. "

For more info. go here.

 

"Create Your Own Storybook" at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, July 27th 2013 at 11am

Help your kids get inspired!

" Tell the story of who or what inspires you to make a difference through a fun interactive activity for all ages. Choose different arts forms to build and create your own storybook to share with others. "

For more info. go here.

"Create a Group Storybook" at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 11am

Image courtesy of GFVC

 Another free, inspirational event geared toward kids!

" Join us for a fun and interactive group storytelling activity. Gather with visitors of all ages and build a story about creating positive change. "

For more info. go here.

 

"Science of Sanitation" at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, June 15th 2013 from 11am-4pm

Something new for the kids to learn about!

" Explore examples of how science and innovation are applied to the global issue of sanitation. See and hear about amazing ideas and individuals from around the world who are working on this effort. "

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM   Demos 

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM  Talk by Visitor Center Staff Member

For more info. go here.

Free Teen Night with performances and more at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center - Friday, April 26th 2013 from 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30pm) - RSVP

Another great, free teen night...this time in Seattle!

" Join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center for a special night designed by teens, for teens, featuring: Garfield High School Drumline, the Vera Project, spoken word poet Hamda Yusuf.

Celebrate young leaders making a difference in their communities through activities and interactive exhibits.

Teen Night is a FREE event only for middle school and high school students (12-19). "

For more info. go here.

"Kick it Forward" - A FREE Family Day at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, March 23rd 2013 from 10am-3pm

" Discover how soccer brings the world together! "

See how this world-loved sport can inspire communities!

Kids will get to meet Taylor Graham and Roger Levesque, former Sounders players and others from local soccer organizations, get to make soccer balls using recycled materials, hear a soccer themed storytime and more! " Visitors can also play a pickup street soccer game and watch Homeless World Cup players demonstrate their skills on a temporary field set up outside the Visitor Center. Everyone is invited to this free family event! "

For more info. go here.

1st Family Day with Arts & Crafts, Exhibits and more at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle - Saturday, December 29th 2012 at 10:30am

Take your kids to Family Day and teach them about the importance of giving and helping others now coined "The Give Effect"! While they are learning they can have interactive fun doing art, making crafts and exploring the exhibits! Plus, there will be storytimes too!

" Bring your family to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center on December 29 for our first Family Day and a huge celebration about giving back to our communities. This Saturday will be filled with FREE hands-on art making designed to help inspire others to make a difference. Explore the Visitor Center’s interactive exhibits. Sew a plushy doll for a friend. Use gaming to solve world problems. Design a bracelet that shares a cause that interests you, and more.  "

For more info. go here.