NAUTI NITE 2010!
Nauti Nite 2010 is Friday, October 8th at the Newport Aquarium. The WAVE Foundation invites you to party with the penguins for our Nauti Nite Masquerade!  Costumes are admired but not required!

Nauti Nite benefits the WAVE Foundation's conservation efforts and youth education programs. So please join us and have a great time for a great cause!

You’ll enjoy fabulous cuisine, specialty cocktails, delicious desserts and wines, exotic animal encounters, dive shows and a silent auction featuring incredible items. 
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cHILDREN pROGRAMS
The WAVE Foundation at the Newport Aquarium is pleased to announce 2 new programs for children ages 12 months to 5 years.

Tadpole Time 
Children ages 12 to 36 months can come to their own special class at the aquarium in Tadpole Time!   Children will experience the Newport Aquarium through stories, animal encounters, and guided aquarium tours. 

Guppy Adventures
During Guppy Adventures, your little one aged 3 to 5 years can enjoy time just for them at the aquarium!   Each Guppy Adventures class includes story time, an animal encounter, a guided aquarium tour and a craft to take home. 

Both programs begin an hour before the Aquarium opens and last for about an hour. 

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SAVE ENERGY.
SAVE A PENGUIN.

Well maybe it's not THAT simple. But how we use resources here, today, affects the entire planet for years to come.

The WAVE Foundations and Duke Energy are joining to bring conservation issues into focus with two special programs:

* An evening with South African penguin biologist Lauren Waller. She'll speak at the Newport Aquarium about her work with this endangered species and discuss how penguin populations are barometers of the health of the planet.
Date: August 25, 2010
Time: 6 p.m. VIP reception/cocktail;
7 p.m. general admission
Tickets: General admission $15;
VIP reception/cocktail: $35
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* A student essay contest on "Why Energy Conservation is Important to our Future."
Winners will win tickets to the penguin event, meet some penguins, and maybe even win $100 for their school's conservation efforts.
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