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› What: “Dream Big: Engineering Our World.”› When: Noon and 4 p.m. daily, plus 7 p.m. screenings each Friday and Saturday.› Where: Tennessee Aquarium’s Imax Theater, 201 Chestnut St.› Admission: $11.95 adults, $9.95 children 3-12.› Website: www.tnaqua.org/imax.‘Dream Big’ premiereThe premiere of “Dream Big: Engineering Our World” at the Imax Theater is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. Following the film screening, a Q&A session will take place with five high school students from Houston, Miss., who won the World Solar Challenge Race and whose one-of-a-kind electric, solar-powered car is featured in the film.Afterward, in the Imax Great Hall, Bricks 4 Kidz will have Lego building stations set up for youth to learn more about future fields in engineering. Build a skyscraper, interact with motorized Lego models, or engineer your own invention at the creative Lego building area. Kids will also take home their own mini LEGO car.Dinner during the film is available with advance registration. Ticket purchasers may add on a boxed meal that includes three Zaxby’s Chicken Fingers, chips, cookies and a medium fountain drink for $8.Purchase tickets at www.tnaqua.org/imax.
The first big-screen film to “answer the call of the STEM initiative” debuts Friday, Feb. 17, at the Tennessee Aquarium’s Imax Theater.
“Dream Big: Engineering Our World” is not only meant to inspire a new generation to think about alternative career paths in science, technology, engineering and math, but to challenge moviegovers to reconsider some superlative adjectives, like “fastest,” “strongest” or “tallest.”
Presented in 3D and narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, “Dream Big” celebrates the human ingenuity behind technological marvels large and small and shows how engineers push the limits of innovation in unexpected and amazing ways. From the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis to space exploration, “Dream Big” is packed with epic moments of grand engineering. Audiences will get dizzying views of cloud-tickling skyscrapers and take white-knuckle trips rocketing alongside experimental vehicles.
An engineer performs a routine inspection of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Golden Gate is a suspension bridge designed by a team of engineers in the 1930s. Works of grand engineering are featured in the new Imax film “Dream Big: Engineering Our World.”However, one the most-engrossing stories the movie depicts will take place just 39 inches off the ground and at speeds that would barely raise the eyebrows of a crossing guard. Viewers will watch 14 students from Houston (Miss.) High School of Science and Technology as they travel half the world away to compete in the 2015 World Solar Challenge Race in Australia.