WHAT: Announcement of PNC Foundation Grow Up Great with Science grant to the National Air and Space Museum and District of Columbia Public Schools

WHEN: Tuesday, April 21, 11 a.m.

WHERE: Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Seventh Street and Independence Avenue S.W.

WHO:       John R. Dailey, director, National Air and Space Museum
                Maureen Kerr, chair of the education division, National Air and Space Museum
                James E. Rohr, chairman and CEO, The PNC Financial Services Group
                Gary E. Knell, president and CEO, Sesame Workshop
                Elmo, star of “One World, One Sky,” Sesame Workshop

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will be announcing a Grow Up Great with Science grant from the PNC Foundation that will support a partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools to enhance early childhood science education.

At 10 a.m., “One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure,” a planetarium show developed by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, for four- to six-year-olds featuring Big Bird and Elmo will have its East Coast premiere for a group of preschoolers and interested media. Reporters interested in one-on-one interviews with Elmo must call in advance. The show is sponsored by PNC as part of its Grow Up Great initiative.

Interested media must RSVP to larai@si.edu or mullenb@si.edu.