A NanoDays kit is approximately 2.5' x 1.5' x 1.5'. 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.
What's in the kit?
I. Hands-on activities complete with instructions, graphics, and supplies for 100 visitors:
- Exploring Fabrication- Gummy Capsules [1] Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Hydrogel [2] Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Memory Metal [3]NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Nano & Society- Space Elevator NEW! [4]Spanish!
- Exploring Nano & Society- You Decide! [5]NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Products- Computer Hard Drives [6]NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Products- Liquid Crystal Displays [7] NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Properties- Invisibility [8] NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Properties- UV Bracelets [9] NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Size- Moving Molecules [10]NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Tools- 3D Imaging [11]NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Tools- Mystery Shapes [12] NEW! Spanish!
II. Programs
- Nanotechnology Spin-A-Prize! [13] NEW! Spanish!
- Horton Hears a Who storytime [14]NEW! Spanish!
- Nanomedicine Explorer DVD: a hands-on interactive multi-media program [15]NEW! Spanish!
III. Graphics
- Key concepts posters [16] Spanish!
- Nano and society posters [17] NEW!
- Nano Museum Labels (Graphic Signs) [18]NEW! Spanish!
IV. A set of guides and tools for planning and promoting your event:
- NanoDays 2013 Planning Guide and Welcome Letter [19]revised
- NISE Network Brochure [20] (to share with staff and collaborators)
- Large Promotional Banners, Sample Ads and Posters, Sample Press Release, and other Marketing Materials [21] Spanish! revised
- NanoDays Promotional Video [22]
- NISE Net Publicity Photos [23] revised
- A Guide to Building Parnerships Between Museums and University-Based Research Centers [24] NEW!
- Digit Kit USB with electronic copies of materials found in the entire kit revised
V. Training Materials
- Nano 101 for staff [25]NEW! revised
- NanoDays orientation Powerpoint slides and notes revised [26]
- NanoDays training video guide - "How To" and "How NOT to" Intteract with Visitors [26]
- Tips for engaging visitors [26]
- Tips for visitor conversations [26]NEW!
- Engaging the Public in Nano [27] (guide to key concepts)
- Universal Design Guidelines for Public Programs in Science Museums [28]
VI. Educational Media DVD
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud? [29]
- How Small is Nano? [30]
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? [31]Spanish!
- Mr. O videos: Getting a Sense of Smell, [32] I Got No Stains on Me [33], and Molecular Gastronomy [34] Nanocoatings [35], Butterfly Blues [36], Nobel Winning Experiment [37]NEW!
- Nano and Me [38]videos: Aluminum, Gold, Gravity, Latex, Pants, and Silver Spanish!
- What Happens in a Nano Lab? [39]
- Wonders and Worries of Nanotechnology [40] videos: Ask and Research [41], Who Benefits [42], and Regulation [43] NEW!
- Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly [44]
- Zoom into a Lotus Leaf [45]
VII. Staff and volunteer training media DVD
- A Museum Presentation: How NOT to Present [26]
- A Museum Presentation: How TO Present [26]
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? [31] (Intro to Nano video) Spanish!
To find more information, such as vendor contact info, for any physical resource or consumable material in the NanoDays kit, check under the "Resources tab" of the specific Catalog product's page.