Day of Week: Saturdays!
Dates: 9/19/2009 - 4/17/2010
Time: 10 AM - 11 AM ish
Place: One College Road

Genesee Community College
Batavia, NY14020

BRAND NEW DAY! BRAND NEW TIME! After 11 years--COOL KIDS! at GCC is NOW on Saturdays and we're SO excited! Don't sit home playin WII! Skip cartoons! Pour that cereal in your backpack! And get over to Cool Kids! This week---Wow! It’s NOT JUST YOGA! Its an AFRICAN SAFARI! Just come and sssssssstretch FOR MILES and MILES and WAY-TOO-COOL MILES---on a BIG ADVENTURE! An AFRICAN Adventure! Where we all become roaring beasties! Stretching Sillies! Oh! And did I say Yoga? Plussss: Storytelling! Music! Fun! Its YOGA for Cool Kids! Yoga for FAMILIES!! For all ages! No mats needed! And Yoga isn’t just the COOLEST way to get fit EVER! It’s proven to IMPROVE concentration! Focus! Agility! And GRADES with kids!!

Come and get yer coooool cowboy and cowgirllll on!!!! Featuring The Black Lightening Wild West Show ---national, costumed feature act brings you GREAT western ROPE tricks galore! Whip-cracking, eye-popping, breathless moments of daring! You’ll LOVE this show! But don’t stop there! In true Cool Kids style—we pass out ropes and EVERYBODY gets to try rope tricks! YeeeHAW!

Oh man oh man oh man oh WOW! This is the BEST-EST, COOL-EST, NEATO-est thing we've done in FOREVER! Don't MISS OUT ON THIS AWESOME DOODLING, SCRIBBLING, ART-iS-WAY-TOO-COOL party! We ALL can draw! But we’re doing this one ALL different! It’s all about (drawing) YOU! EMBRACE your INNER HERO!! with ARTIST EXTRAORDINNAIRE (and Cool Kid) Mary Beth Dolan! WE BRING THE SUPPLIES! YOU BRING THE FUN!!

Oh wait! Did we already claim other Cool Kids! shows were the coolest yet? Ooops!! Well this one! Yes! Really! THIS one! THIS is the COOLEST! Pinky swear! Ever wanna learn how to make a balloon dog? One of those cool head pieces? Well THIS is your fun day! The Balloon Twistin Funshop is THE MOST colorful and AUDIENCE wide laugh-a-minute Cool Kids show we do! Featuring a GREAT comedian (Dad)who takes the AUDIENCE far BEYOND just twisting balloons into animal shapes—HUGE balloon hats! And SO MUCH more! Add kid-crazy music, the comedy antics of “Russ-The Big Guy”, and you’ve got LOTS of fun!

Updated Feb 2, 2010: Special Event- Cool Kids! performance at EXPERIENCE GENESEE Open House and FAMILY FUN DAY!!! SPECIAL TIME: 9 AM - NOON (Open House and Experience Genesee mini-funshops!) Cool Kids show at 10 AM!!! -- He’s back! The EVER FUN! EVER COOL! Juggling dynamo: The zany imagineer--and juggling dynamo Jeff Peden of AIRPLAY –featuring one his coolest stage shows:YO YO BLAST!!! Afterwards: we ALL JOIN THE SHOW in a “Fun shop” - learning the history of yo-yo’s, diablos, Japanese kendamas, spinning tops and a giant YO YO party! THEN--Do NOT miss from 9 AM --straight through NOON: Experience Genesee! Open House and FAMILY FUN DAY! It's the BEST of GCC's faculty and staff again as they pull out ALL the stops for this MEGA popular THIRD ANNUAL EVENT--featuring A HUGE MENU of FREE and AMAZING mini-funshops to kids and families including: RADIO station FUN! Endless hands-on and make-it-and take it’s with GCC Education Dept! Science show and CSI! AVATAR and virtual fun! Open Gym! Sports Minicamps! And LOTS LOTS MORE! You’ll WISH you had TEN hours to do it all! FREE SNACKS! OPEN GYM for the kids! OR—bring the kids with you to these funshops! For more specific info on workshop times and content--please call 345-6832

Updated: April 5, 2010 SPECIAL TIME: 10 AM - 2 PM!!! ALL DAY FUN! COME AND GET YOUR GREEN ON at the ever expanding “COOLEST EARTH DAY EVER”—featuring a massive green menu of over FIFTY!! cool booths--and LOADS of activities to keep you/the family busy with GREEN FUN! GAMES! Hands-on COOL! A mountain bike raffle for participating in E-Scrap Drive! Street Cleanup! Various activities inside! And more! o INCLUDING OUTSIDE -- • “Pump em Up” --National program! FREE tire pressure check with Dunn Tire (Batavia)--and get a FREE tire gauge!!! Save gas! Oil! Tires! The Planet! Drive-thru service! Plus--RAFFLE TICKET! • “Mercury Switchout” with AAA! FREE! Drive through! Save our water in one easy step by getting your car checked for a mercury light switch—we switch it out! FREE! o HUGE displays of Alternative Energy Cars Displays (Hydrogen! Ethanol! Electric! Vegetable Oil powered cars!) PLUS a Hybrid TOWTRUCK! o Solar and Wind Power displays! KITES! KITES! KITES! CIRCLE Drum and DANCING! Seed planting! Earth messages in Sidewalk Chalk! Bubbles! YOW! And you haven't even been INSIDE yet!! o BRING your OLD ELECTRONICS! (E-SCRAP) to RECYCLE! Drive-thru service! GET A RAFFLE TICKET for EACH ITEM DONATED! Public can bring their old electronics for Cool Kids to recycle and DODGE the DUMP!! You save $! We save the Planet! Spring clean your house! And bring us your old: Computers! Printers! Televisions! Fax machines! Cash registers! Wiring! Phones! Stereos! Microwaves! Rechargeable batteries! Calculators! Typewriters! IPODS! Cell Phones! PDA’s! PLUS: Any peripheral computer equipment (mouses, keyboards, cables)! SIDENOTE: No personal or kitchen appliances. And no businesses or agencies can donate. Call us for more info. o NEW THIS YEAR: BRING your PAPERBACKS (to benefit American soldiers via Operation Paperback!) and BRING your OLD SNEAKERS! (SNEAKERS ONLY--no metal) to recycle into astroturf via NIKE REUSE-A-SHOE!) INSIDE-10 AM – 2 PM o Over 50(!) eco vendors inside and out with artistic “green” games/activities and demos at every table! Including: Gen County Soil and Water! EXOTIC WILDLIFE at Wildlife Educators Coalition!! Tons of giveaways! Tree Seedling Giveaway! Make an Earth Mask with the Girl Scouts!! Make origami at the Cool Kids Peace Chain! Earth Day Bag Project w/Beaver Creek Meadows! Check out LIVE aquatics at Adopt A Stream! Tons of Eco Games! Recycling Olympics with Boy Scouts! Nonstop fun for all ages! SCHEDULE of EVENTS (subject to change!) 10 AM Doors Open! Bring you E-Scrap! Paperbacks! Sneaks! o 1130 PM - Pizza Party • Noon-ECOTIPS CONTEST DEADLINE 1245 PM BIG BAG BASH 1 PM Cool Kids STAGE show- LIVE WILDLIFE SHOW! • 1:45- 2 PM PM -ECOTIPS Contest Award winners--do NOT have to be present to win! PLUS: Mountain Bike Raffle Giveaway! (from Adam Miller Bike Shop, Batavia, NY !) MUST be PRESENT to WIN!