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We were pleasantly surprised with how much we ended up learning at Epcot Center. So even though it's pretty much just a major vacation destination, we are including this page of our discoveries at this family fun spot. January was a good time to go to Disney World. Even though the evenings were quite chilly, the crowds were thin and lines were short (except for some of the Magic Kingdom rides). It was fun visiting Epcot during the 2000 year of celebration. Walt Disney's vision began with EPCOT: an Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow. The Millennial Walk parade and Reflections of Earth fireworks show were exciting and reinforced our optimism for the centuries to come. |
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"Innoventions is what the Epcot people predict the future of electronic technology will be like. We saw things like the PlanetRider, showing what the future of the Internet may be, and future video games. We also played some medical games that show how health technology is improving."--Harrison |
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Spaceship
Earth Our time is known as the Information Age, but Rob thinks we are really living in the Third Information Age. Each age has brought increased knowledge, freedom and progress to human life on earth. The Spaceship Earth exhibit, which takes you on a ride through the famous geodesic dome for which Epcot is famous, takes you on a time-traveling tour through the history of communication
These pictures represent the Three Information Ages. The first age began with the printing press, which allowed people to share ideas with many others and to extend the human knowledge through books. The invention of the radio began the second information age, making it possible to broadcast instant news and information to thousands of people at once. Computer networks now let millions of people worldwide share a huge variety of information, ideas, news and events. Almost anyone can "surf the net" and even have their own web page. |
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World
Music
Our family loves a wide range of music, so we really loved one of the greatest things about Epcot--the variety of musical performances going on throughout the day. We enjoyed the rhythm of the Jammitors, energetic guys banging on trash cans and dustpans; the athletic precision of the Japanese Taiko drummers from the Tokyo troop, Matsuriza; and the Baroque-gone-New Age sounds of Nova Era from Italy. We also heard bagpipe rock 'n roll from Off Kilter and jazzed up Eastern sounds from MoRockin, as well as an intimate concert from two Scottish women who call themselves MacAlias. All of it was wonderful! |
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We all got a bit homesick going to the Japan pavilion. It was like being back in Tokyo. In the exhibit of Karakuri (mechanical dolls), Harrison tried out the parade lion dance robot. "It was fun making the lion dance. I could move him around, flash his eyes & open his mouth. After, the lion danced by itself, then opened up and an animatronic woman controller was inside, just like in a real parade. I wonder what it would be like to program this complicated robot."--Harrison Amanda liked the ceramic puppets. "These are dancing dolls. They walked back and forth, turning their fans and swords. I think they would be very hard to make and move." |
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'China' we watched a group of young acrobats. They did tricks like jumping
through stacked hoops. There was also a girl on a unicycle that flipped
4 bowls from her foot at once, and they all ended up stacked on top of her
head!"--H. |
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"We wore crowns and ate meat with our hands and drank soup out of a bowl that had a handle, because utensils hadn't been invented yet. The knights did a lot of tricky things, like catching rings with their lances while galloping on their horses, jousting, fighting with swords and falling off horses. Our knight was throwing flowers and my dad caught one for me--and we were sitting on the highest row! Our knight won the tournament. Yeah!"--Amanda |
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though we are on an educational field trip, we planned time to go to
Disney World, because, well, you can't go to Florida and not go! 
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Walt
Disney : Young Movie Maker (Childhood of Famous Americans)
