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The Discovery Museums located in Acton, MA is a unique campus featuring two hands-on museums for children of all ages.

Tell us about your NanoDays 2012 event by filling out the NanoDays Online Report:

• http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/768876/NanoDays-2012-Report

We ask that partners hosting NanoDays events report back to the Network about your experiences through this online survey. There are two sections in this survey:

In April 2005, when we were conceptualizing the NISE Net and writing the first proposal, we made various stabs at trying to draw a diagram that would represent the NISE Net.  Here's one that I did.  We never used it but it became known as the Easter Egg diagram. So here it is 7 years later and you can see that things are quite different today from what is in this image.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Teacher Workshops!

This January, seventeen middle school and pre-service teachers from around central Indiana descended upon The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis for the Museum’s first nano-infused teacher workshop. Armed with a curriculum of half-NISE Net/half-NSTA materials, Becky Wolfe and John McCollum engaged these teachers in the concepts of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.

We’ve heard that some NanoDays 2012 kit recipients are having trouble getting the Graphene activity to work.  If you can’t get the bulb to light, here are a few solutions you might try:

New Website Feature!

We have recently added a new interactive way to quickly look through the entire online Catalog of educational products.

We are pleased to announce that we  received 81 completed applications from NISE Network partners applying for a free copy of the Nano mini-exhibition;  m

Whether your team includes an army of local graduate students, or a handful of museum educators, or a mix of volunteers, scientists, and industry partners, we want to see who they are! Snap a picture of your NanoDays team this year (be sure to have anyone in the photo sign a release) and send it our way!

NanoDays 2011 at the Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY

Remember your first NanoDays?

The Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art (RIMOSA) is getting ready for their first ever NanoDays this year and they’re excited!

What do you remember from your first NanoDays?
What advice do you have to share?
How do you keep your NanoDays events fresh?

NanoDays 2012 is just around the corner!  We'd love to hear your 140-character stories, comments, and/or advice on Twitter.  Just be sure to use #nanodays.  Good luck with your planning and preparation!

Note: the Twitter bird was unavailable for this picture, so we got his cousin, Squawk, instead.