<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Join us! The Social Committee has arranged for the below, so get your RSVP’s in . . . when you let us know you will be joining us, vote for Exhibit Only, Breakfast or Lunch/Brunch. <div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The Potomac Chapter is sponsoring a guided tour of the Smithsonian Futures exhibit at 10:30 AM on Saturday, March 5</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.2px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup class="">th</sup></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">. The focus of our tour will be how innovation can be a double-edged sword. It can be great, but also scary. After our guided tour the entire exhibit will be available for our enjoyment using AIRA for free. Additional information regarding the exhibit as well as the address and link to the Arts and Industries Building is included below.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">If there is enough interest, we will meet either before the tour for breakfast or go to lunch after enjoying the exhibit. Please include your preference with your RSVP. RSVP’s with votes for breakfast, lunch or just the exhibit will be accepted through Friday, 2/25. We will send an updated announcement with the final plans soliciting additional RSVP’s. Please send your RSVP’s to Sarah Blumberg at <a href="mailto:sarahblumb@gmail.com" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">sarahblumb@gmail.com</span></a> or 571-585-1255.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.si.edu/museums/arts-and-industries-building" class="">Arts and Industries Building<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">900 Jefferson Drive, SW</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Washington, DC</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 63, 74);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Part exhibition, part festival, <i class="">FUTURES</i> presents nearly 32,000 square feet of new immersive site-specific art installations, interactives, working experiments, inventions, speculative designs, and “artifacts of the future,” as well as historic objects and discoveries from 23 of the Smithsonian’s museums, major initiatives, and research centers. Of the nearly 150 objects on view, several are making their public debut: an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven rover from Alphabet’s X that could transform agriculture; a Planetary Society space sail for deep space travel; a Loon internet balloon; the first full-scale Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome built in North America; the world’s first controlled thermonuclear fusion device; and more.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p></div></body></html>