Activities

The Global Family Reunion will be a Family Reunion meets a World’s Fair meets a Music Festival meets a TED conference.

We will have tons of activities for cousins of all ages. Take it from a family member: You will not be bored.

The New York Hall of Science has 450 hands-on, interactive exhibits that will be open to Global Family Reunion attendees. Here’s a sampling:

• A mini-golf course with an interplanetary theme.
• A Science playground that includes slides, climbing nets, fog machines and a giant lever.
• An amphitheater that will host talks, films and presentations related to ancestry and family.
• An arm-wrestling machine.
• A Design Lab where you can create movies, build structures and 3-D print objects.
• Rocket Park, where you can see Gemini Titan II, Mercury Capsule and more.
• A Sports Challenge exhibit, including pitching cage where a radar gun will measure the speed of your throws, and a surfing simulator.
• And hundreds of other attractions.

In addition to all that fun, there will also be:

• Woodloch Resorts will be hosting Dessert Wars, Name that Tune games, Ring Tosses and will give away a two-night stay for four to their beautiful resort!
• World’s Biggest Family Photo
• Family-Themed Scavenger Hunt by Watson Adventures
• Talent contest
• Meet and Greet Historical Cousins (we’ll have several impersonators, including George Washington)
• On-the-spot Genealogy where you can try to figure out how you are related to every else
• Biggest Ever Visual Family Tree
• Family Trivia Pub Quiz
• Sack races, tug-of-war and other games
• Storytelling workshops
• Crafts
• Sing-a-long with Sister Sledge, who will be belting out “We Are Family.”
• Awards for the Most Generous Families from the Surname Showdown to Fight Alzheimer’s