The President's Day holiday brought hundreds of children and their parents to the science center, most of which stopped by ASCE's activity tables and worked to solve engineering problems through fun hands-on activities. Kids built soaring towers made out of index cards and paperclips, created domes out of gumdrops and toothpicks, and experimented with bridge design by folding a single sheet of paper and seeing how many pennies they could support before falling down. Kids weren't the only ones that tried out the hands-on activities—many of their parents couldn't resist from participating and seeing if they could match the creativity of their sons and daughters.

ASCE members and student chapter members volunteering at the event distributed brochures and other giveaways to children and answered questions about civil engineering. In addition to the organizing and staffing the activity tables, the Met Section also showed videos about civil engineering projects. A variety of pictures from the event are included in the photo gallery on the Met Section website. ASCE would like to recognize AECOM, Environmental Planning & Management, Greenman-Pedersen Inc., HAKS, HDR, Moretrench, and Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers for sponsoring the event. Some of the Met Section's activity tables were shown in a story about the New York Hall of Science that appeared that evening on NY1 News, New York City's 24-hour television news channel.