This Holiday season, why not have a truly one-of-a-kind bonding time with your family through fun and exciting attractions that not only let you have fun, but learn more about Science as well?

And with its amazing new attractions, the NIDO Fortified Science Discovery Center is sure to double the enjoyment and education that you cannot find elsewhere.

These include the gripping new film feature, “Stars of the Pharaohs” that lets you discover the wonders of ancient Egypt and the truly exciting new interactive galleries—the Bug Rug, Arctic Ice, and Fear—that let you feel how it is to be in different worlds.

“As with our other attractions here at the center, our latest additions are sure to educate children on different Science concepts in a more fun and exciting way,” said Raymund Maclang, AVP for Operations, Family Entertainment Center, Inc.
Jedessa Leyte, Marketing Promotions and Events Manager for NIDO Fortified adds, “These new attractions will likewise provide great opportunities for family bonding.”

On top of these new and exciting galleries, the Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center also offers an amazing holiday treat with its new promos for walk-in guests.

Holiday treat

As part of its treat this holiday season, you can enjoy unlimited fun plus all the Planetarium films you can watch only at the Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center with its new special Christmas promo—the Kiddie Pass. At P150, children can enjoy all the interactive and education galleries and watch all the amazing films at the Digistar Planetarium— more half of its original price. Also ongoing is the All Day Pass that allows all guests to reenter the center and enjoy all of its attractions at any time during mall hours.

Egypt and the stars

In Digistar Planetarium’s latest film, “Stars of the Pharaohs”, viewers will be taken back 6,000 years to the land of ancient Egypt and the stars in its desert skies.

Through the truly amazing capability of the DigiStar Planetarium to create environments that completely immerse audiences in images and sounds, viewers will surely have an exciting time learning more about the mythological creation of the Egyptian universe.

Here, they learn how the Sun, Orion, and the ancient Pole Star were used to align Egypt’s monumental temples and pyramids. Through this ancient culture, they will also be able to see the earliest calendar ever devised, based on the rising star Sirius and its ability to predict annual flooding of the Nile River.

Three new interactive galleries

In Bug Rug, Arctic Ice, and Fear, visitors will be made to experience how it feels to be like in the face of a prowling predator, walk along the jungles of Madagascar searching for bugs, and how it is to be a hero in saving mother and child polar bears.

These new attractions came from Snibbe Interactive, the company that develops immersive interactive experiences for use in museums, entertainment.

Bug Rug is an interactive exhibit of entomology, the science of bugs, and the real method of scientists used in the field. Here, visitors can walk into the floor projection of the Madagascar forest floor, where insects are busy foraging for food and hiding under rocks and plants. When a visitor moves quickly, it scares the insects away.

To successfully trap an insect, visitors can move bait using their hands and feet to designated traps and wait for the insects to fall inside. Once an insect is trapped, details about that particular specie appear on a nearby wall monitor enabling visitors to learn and have fun while also experiencing the actual methods used by field scientists working in the rainforest.
Arctic Ice, meanwhile, is an interactive immersive exhibit on global warming that tells the complicated story of feedback loops in melting arctic ice, which are major components of climate change.

On a large projection screen, a mother polar bear and her cub are stranded on different ice lobes. Visitors use their body shadows appearing on the small chunks of ice to deflect incoming solar rays. Blocking the rays lowers the temperature of the arctic which, in turn, helps refreeze the ice lobes and connect the two animals separated from each other.