A NanoDays kit is approximately 1.5' x 1.5' x 2.5'. It is a container packed with several hands-on activities (with all supplies needed), resource materials, marketing materials, and more. With this kit you have everything you will need to hold a NanoDays event.
Physical kits for 2010 have been distributed, but the digital kit is still available for download.
What's in the kit?
I. A set of guides and tools for engaging the public in nanoscale science:
- NanoDays Planning Guidebook
- Bringing Nano to the Public: a Collaboration Opportunity for Researchers and Museums
- Public Forums Manual
- Science Cafe Guide
II. Instructions, graphics, and supplies to deliver twelve hands-on nano activities to 80-100 visitors each:
- Exploring Measurement—Ruler
- Exploring Measurement—Human Body
- Exploring Tools—SPM
- Exploring Forces—Gravity
- Exploring Properties—Surface Area
- Exploring Materials—Liquid Crystal
- Exploring Materials—Ferrofluid
- Exploring Structures—Buckyballs
- Exploring Measurement—Molecules
- Exploring Fabrication—Self-Assembly
- Exploring Measurement—StretchAbility
- Exploring Materials—Nano Fabric
III. Additional products for engaging the public in nano:
- "Zoom into the Human Bloodstream" poster
- "Scale Ladder" poster
- "Zoom into a Human Hand" interactive media piece (on CD)
- "Zoom into a Nasturtium Leaf" interactive media piece (on CD)
- DECIDE Nanotechnology Game
- DVD of two 10-minute plays about societal implications of nano: Let's Talk About It by Richard W. Rousseau and Same Sides by Stacey Parshall
- "I'm Made of Atoms" temporary tattoos
IV. A large (3' x 5') NanoDays Banner
V. A CD with electronic templates for the following marketing materials:
- News release
- Nano clip art
- NanoDays logo in various sizes and colors
- Ready-to-print poster
- Ready-to-print banner
- Ready-to-print t-shirt art
- Labels in sizes for nametags & business cards
- Letterhead
- Envelope
