NanoDays Report: Program - NISE Kit, Discovey Place Children's Museum

About the NanoDays event(s)

Description:

We held a NanoDays weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) where the NISE kit demostrations were showcased throughout the museum.
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Type of Events:

Program - NISE Kit

What worked well with NanoDays:

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 be done differently next year:

A "family day" where kids and adults work together might be fun.

Changes made to what NISE provided for NanoDays to better fit the institution:

Some of the kit descriptions did not provide enough background material to answer the questions "how/why does it do that?"

What the NISE network could have done to make NanoDays more of a success:

Maybe have some sort of generic marketing flyer pre-made that could be downloaded and printed for use.

Photos

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Basic facts about the NanoDays event(s)

Dates

  • NanoDays - April 5, 2008

Location: Charlotte, NC


Contact person: Jessica Murphy

Title: Lead Teacher for In-House Education

Department: Learning Expereinces

Professional Category: education outreach


Organization: Discovey Place Children's Museum

Type of organization: Museum


Event organizers and participants:

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Other collaborators:

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Featured presenters or speakers:

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Marketing:

It was promoted through word of mouth to museum visitors

Audience

Type of public served


  • General Public
No information available
NanoDays Audiences
Type of audience Numbers of participants (approximate)
Total number of participantsIt was designed to have people walk-up so we saw about 50 - 100 people on each day
AdultsNo information available
ChildrenNo information available
Persons with disabilitiesNo information available

Additional information about audience: No information available

General comments about audience: This was the first time we attempted something like this, in the future we would like to do more.

 

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