NanoDays Report: Program - NISE Kit, Discovery Place Children's Museum
Type of Event
Program - NISE Kit
Event Dates
City
Charlotte
State / Province
NC
Institution:
Discovery Place Children's Museum Who are you?
Who else in your institution helped organize and participated in this event?
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Who did you collaborate with from <em>outside</em> your institution? (Please note if this relationship began with NanoDays)
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Please list any featured presenters or speakers (if any)
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Please tell us how your NanoDays were marketed.
It was promoted through word of mouth to museum visitors
We want you to rave about NanoDays, but first please provide 1-2 sentence descriptions of each of your events.
We held a NanoDays weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) where the NISE kit demostrations were showcased throughout the museum.
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What worked well with your events?
The demonstrations on making liquid crystals - the kids loved them! All of the demos were so easy to read.
What wasn't as successful?
Some of the demos broke in shipping and could not be used.
What would you do differently next year?
A "family day" where kids and adults work together might be fun.
What changes did you make to what NISE provided to fit your institution?
Some of the kit descriptions did not provide enough background material to answer the questions "how/why does it do that?"
Tell us if there is anything that the NISE network could have done to make your NanoDays more of a success
Maybe have some sort of generic marketing flyer pre-made that could be downloaded and printed for use.
Type of public served
General Public
Tell us anything else you would like about your audience
This was the first time we attempted something like this, in the future we would like to do more.
Approximately how many people participated (NOT including event leaders)
It was designed to have people walk-up so we saw about 50 - 100 people on each day
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