USA Science & Engineering Festival Announces Its Rally on the National Mall to “Keep Science Alive”

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a new video released today by the USA Science & Engineering Festival, Albert Einstein played by an impersonator who looks and sounds like the most famous scientist in the world, challenged Daily Show host Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert, to top his “Rally to Keep Science Alive”.

“I have come back to hold the real rally to the future, and turn America’s attention away from gladiator politics because science is our future.”

The Festival’s “Rally to Keep Science Alive” will be held during the first USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo on the National Mall October 23-24, 2010, a week before Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” and Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity.”

Einstein says science is a land of opportunity and deserves to take center stage while it inspires and engages the next generation with the potential of a career in one of its many fields. He wants politicians, scientists, business leaders, the education community, and the general public, to join him in his “Rally to Keep Science Alive”.

Holding a cardboard sign Einstein declares in his video message, “I have come back to hold the real rally to the future, and turn America’s attention away from gladiator politics because science is our future.” After all, Einstein explains his “Rally to Keep Science Alive” is both educational and useful.

The first USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo on October 23-24th is the perfect back drop for Einstein’s “Rally to Keep Science Alive.” Over 750 science organizations will have 1500 hands-on, interactive exhibits, including the science of NASCAR, baseball, Thanksgiving dinner and much more. Festival attendees can build a robot that will swim underwater, meet astronauts and Nobel Laureates, see and touch a 1500 pound chunk of glacier from Alaska, fly the space shuttle or a fighter jet via virtual reality systems or extract DNA from strawberries.

Einstein plans to command the stage amidst the USA Science & Engineering Festival’s 75 stage shows and solicit support from performers such as science rappers, magicians, musicians, and even Erno Rubik, inventor of the world’s bestselling toy.

The USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo is free to all and has something for everyone from the youngest children to grandparents. To hear more from Einstein about the “Rally to Keep Science Alive” go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg9OSVu4amY and check out the Festival’s Web site at www.usasciencefestival.org.