NISE Network Blog

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia, PA

January 23, 2017

By: Spencer Glantz, University of Pennsylvania

Over the last few years, Spencer Glantz, a bioengineering PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, has helped to grow and advise the Penn iGEM team, worked with museum educators at The Franklin Institute to develop prototype activities for Building...

Partner Highlight: BosLab hosts first Building with Biology event in Somerville, Massachusetts

January 4, 2017

By: Angela Kaczmarczyk and Jennifer Clifford, BosLab

Boston Open Science Laboratory ( BosLab ) is a community lab located in Somerville, Massachusetts. BosLab is dedicated to science outreach and it offers educational seminars, workshops, and hands-on molecular biology classes for the public. In September 2016, we held...

Awards for physical 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits announced

December 22, 2016

Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota

The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) is pleased to announce the award of 250 Explore Science: Earth & Space 2017 toolkits to new and existing eligible partners in the US. In collaboration with NASA, the NISE Network has...

Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit Content Videos filmed for 2017

Content Videos filmed for 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit

December 20, 2016

Darrell Porcello, University of California, Berkeley

Lights, Camera, Action, Part Deux! NISE Network staff moved the training video roadshow to the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, CA to film the next set of media assets for the 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit. Space...

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at The Ohio State University: Partnering with Community Organizations to Engage the Public in Science Learning

December 12, 2016

By: Courtney Price, The Ohio State University

The Center for Applied Plant Sciences ( CAPS ) and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center ( ABRC ) at The Ohio State University (OSU) used the Building with Biology kit as an opportunity to engage in public outreach while building...

Partner Highlight: Bio Bistro Activity for BioBuilderClub Kick-off Event at Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Boston

December 12, 2016

By: Natalie Kuldell, BioBuilder Educational Foundation

BioBuilderClub , a synthetic biology after-school program for high school teams around the country, kicked off the academic year on October 13, 2016 with an event held at Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Boston, MA. Participants enjoyed the Bio Bistro hands-on...

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology on the Move with SELF International in Richfield, MN

December 12, 2016

By: Bonnie Everts, SELF International, Inc.

SELF International is a mobile discovery program based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that delivers informal STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) educational opportunities and resources directly to underserved communities. In September we held a Building with Biology event at FLEX Academy...

NISE Network sending partners with Nano exhibition a refill kit to extend the life of the exhibition

December 1, 2016

Christina Leavell

What’s the hottest item of the 2016 Holiday Season? The Nano mini-exhibition refill kit of course! The NISE Network has developed a kit of resources to replenish select components of the Nano mini-exhibition. Partner sites receiving the refill kit have...

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology Within the Teen Science Café Network - Exploring the Cool and the Scary

November 1, 2016

Kathryn Riddle Penzkover and Michelle K. Hall

The teen years are a time of exploring new frontiers and making important decisions that will change lives in ways that cannot be known. The same can be said for the field of synthetic biology - it is a time...

Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit training videos filming

Training Videos filmed for 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit

October 28, 2016

Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota

Lights, Camera, Action! Over the past few weeks NISE Network project staff located at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina have been working to create a set of training videos which will be included in the...