Blog: Partner Highlights

Children's Museum of Brownsville

Partner Highlight: The Universe Unfolds at the Children's Museum of Brownsville

June 3, 2019
Felipe Pena, Executive Director, Children's Museum of Brownsville
The Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition has been a great addition to the Children’s Museum of Brownsville ! Although there was an initial challenge of how to fit it into our existing space, which is a bit odd in dimension, the...
OMSI

Partner Highlight: Sustainable Decision Making Framework for Exhibits

June 3, 2019
Dave Laubenthal, Director of Creative Services, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
Like most hands-on museums, OMSI ends up with a backlog of older exhibits that still have value but don’t have a current place in our galleries. As a result, they languish in dark corners, outbuildings, closets, rented storage spaces, and...
Kids 'N' Stuff Children's Museum in Albion Michigan

Partner Highlight: Earth & Space 2019 Events Across the Country

June 1, 2019
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
Many partners have shared images of their Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 events and activities on social networking. Many of these activities were incorporated into Earth Day, Earth Week, and Chemists Celebrate Earth Week events. We have gathered just...
Teen Cosmos

Partner Highlight: Teen Cosmos Collective: Building Science Literacy and Identity using Universe of Learning and NISE Network Tools

April 30, 2019
Max Cawley, Museum of Life and Science
In the fall of 2018, the Museum of Life and Science ran a pilot afterschool program called Teen Cosmos Collective; a series aimed at building science communication skills, space content knowledge, and science literacy and identity. This 10-week program recruited...
NanoDays 2019

Partner Highlight: Celebrating NanoDays 2019 Events Across the Country

April 19, 2019
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
Many NISE Network partners have shared images of their NanoDays 2019 events on social networking. We have gathered just a few of many images shared by partners highlighting the different ways partners continue to use NanoDays kits and resources to engage the public.
Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry

Partner Highlight: Supporting Positive Attitudes Toward Learning Chemistry Through National Let's Do Chemistry Events

March 29, 2019
Kayla Berry, Museum of Science
Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry kits were distributed to 250 Network partners across the country for hosting public events last fall, reaching over 210,000 people, receiving many positive reactions! Read more for event highlights,
Nanostructures: Nature vs. Engineering and the Nano Exhibit

Partner Highlight: NANOMonth: The Museum of Life and Science goes big on things that are really small

February 28, 2019
Brad Herring, Museum of Life and Science
On certain Saturdays throughout the year the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC, hosts local scientists in The Lab to show off some of their most recent research. For the entire month of February we partnered with Dr...
SD Discovery Center

Partner Highlight: A Journey through chemistry from Pierre, South Dakota to the ocean to outer space

February 4, 2019
Dr. Rhea Waldman, SD Discovery Center
What does Central South Dakota have to do with the Ocean and Outer Space? Knowing how everything is connected is essential to understand our changing world, and so is empowering kids to realize everyone can make an impact – no...
Let's Do Chemistry partner event

Thanks for Participating in National Chemistry Week 2018!

January 3, 2019
David C. Horwitz, American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society (ACS) hosted its 31st annual celebration of chemistry during National Chemistry Week (NCW) from October 21-27, 2018, whose mission of the NCW campaign is to motivate ACS members and other science enthusiasts to teach the public about the value of chemistry in everyday life. This year, more than 90% (169/185) of ACS local sections hosted activities for NCW, which is ACS’s highest level of engagement in the campaign in ten years.
LaVenture Middle School students

Partner Highlight: Integrating the NISE Net’s “Let’s Do Chemistry" Kit into a National Chemistry Week Outreach Program Targeted at Middle School Students

December 4, 2018
Dr. Roxi Smith, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
When you ask college students to spend a day volunteering in a middle school classroom, they typically cringe. Who can blame them? After all, very few of us look back on our middle school years with fond memories. Yet every...