Tabletop Activities and Cart Demos for NanoDays 2009: (Click for full-sized version)
Institutions reporting as of May 15, 2009: 100
Today I've broken down your responses to the following two questions on the NanoDays 2009 Report.
- We hosted table top activities and cart demonstrations from the NanoDays kit. (How many hours?)
- We hosted table top activities and cart demonstrations NOT from the NanoDays kit. (How many hours?)
The chart shows how many hours you reported hosting both activities included in the NanoDays Kit (2,219) and activities that weren't included (1,461).
Along the bottom of the chart, you'll see a breakdown of institutions that only used the kit for their tabletop and cart demos, institutions that used both kit and non-kit activities, and institutions that didn't use the kit at all.
So, what did you do that wasn't in the kit?
Non-Kit activities made up 43% of NanoDays 2009 tabletop activities and cart demonstrations. Your feedback will help us with future NanoDays Kits and catalog items. Please login to provide your answer in the comments below.
Vrylena Olney
Clark Miller
Larry Bell
Carol Lynn Alpert
Rashmi Nanjundaswamy
Comments
Most of the things we did
Most of the things we did that weren't in the kit were other NISEnet catalog programs. The one original thing we did was a station alongside the giant balloon nanotube model where kids and adults could use mini marshmallows (a few days stale) and toothpicks (cut in half) to build their own molecular models. It was a pretty popular station for us!
NMAH had a non-kit talk/presentation
I attended NanoDays at the National Museum of American History, and they had Andrew Maynard from the Woodrow Wilson Center just up the street give a talk about nanotechnology and potential risks and benefits. He did a great job of giving a sense of the range of potential applications. I was impressed, too, by all the thoughtful questions that were asked after the presentation was over, it seemed like the audience was really ready to dig into some of the questions Andrew's presentation raised.
What did you do that wasn't in the kit?
At the Museum of Life and Science we made Nano Ice Cream using liquid nitrogen to rapidly freeze cream, milk, vanilla and a touch of sugar. We then served it to about 125 people who listened to a talk on Nano and the Environment by Mark Wiesner from Duke University. It was a great combo!
what did you do that wasnt in the kit????
Its pretty cool to see that most people are both really using the kits, and doing more on their own. I hope someone adds some comments telling us what they did!