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Logos for the Allen Institute, Pacific Science Center, and Brain Fest 2024; main graphic is multicolored dots arranged to look like the human brain on an all black background

Partner Highlight: BrainFest: A Cerebral Celebration with Pacific Science Center & the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA

Claire Weichselbaum, PhD, Allen Institute

Pacific Science Center celebrated Brain Awareness Week with BrainFest: A Cerebral Celebration on March 16, 2024. Scientists from the Allen Institute and students from the University of Washington hosted activity stations throughout the science center, which included resources from the NISE Network's Changing Brains kit.

Marbles Kids Museum Webb Space Telescope Event visitors using Orbiting Objects activity

Partner Highlight: Visitors at Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC learn about the James Webb Space Telescope

January 27, 2022

Hardin Engelhardt, Marbles Kids Museum, Raleigh, NC

Marbles Kids Museum held an out of this world space weekend event filled with activities exploring our universe and the James Webb Space Telescope that recently launched on December 25th, 2021.

NanoDays 2015 Digital Kit

Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.

Image of child standing in front of a poster reading "High Five for the Future"

Sustainability Solutions Festival Family Day

On February 16, Arizona State University's Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives hosted its third annual Sustainability Solutions Festival Family Day at Arizona Science Center . During this event, prototype activities from the sustainABLE hands-on activity kit were tested. The kits are...

NanoDays 2012 Digital Kit

Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.

NanoDays 2011 Digital Kit

Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.

Educator featured in training video for NanoDays activity

NanoDays 2015 Training Videos are now available!

January 15, 2015

Catherine McCarthy

These short videos are perfect for NanoDays 2015 staff and volunteer training. Please feel free to distribute these links to people volunteering at your NanoDays event. All of these videos may be downloaded from Vimeo simply by creating a free...

Let it snow: nano structures and self-assembly

December 7, 2009

Designer snowflake video courtesy Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, www.snowcrystals.com Between the snow we got on the east coast this weekend and Winter officially beginning on December 21st, it seems like a good time to break out some of our snowflake...

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Classroom Nano: Middle School Workshop

January 25, 2010

Many of our partners have indicated that they do classroom activities of some type, so I'm going to be highlighting a few examples of partners incorporating nano into classroom programs. Please let us know what you've been doing with NISE...

Pensacola Mess Hall in Florida event with a child looking through telescope to observe the Moon

Partner Highlight: Pensacola MESS Hall Observes the Moon and More for International Observe the Moon Night

November 2, 2022

Christina Leavell

Pensacola MESS Hall hosts an Observe the Moon-themed "Curiosity Day" full of events in collaboration with the Escambia Amateur Astronomy Association.

The Leonardo

Partner Highlight: Girls Full STEAM Ahead! at the Leonardo

Erika DuRoss, The Leonardo Museum

We’re all familiar with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) — it’s a buzzword that continues to build momentum in education. There are dozens of studies on how to improve STEM education at all levels. But what happens when you...

NanoDays 2014 Digital Kit

Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.

Sci-Port Discovery Center

Partner Highlight: Explore Science and Bars without Barriers in Shreveport, Louisiana

January 29, 2017

By: Alan Brown, Sci-Port Discovery Center

In July 2015, with funding from the Beaird Family Foundation, Sci-Port Discovery Center began a joint venture with the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Workforce Re-entry Facility. While that re-entry program provides job training and skills, our Bars without Barriers program provides...

NISE Network Year in Review 2020

January 6, 2021

Rae Ostman, Arizona State University

National Informal STEM Education Network Year in Review 2020

Let’s Do Chemistry Train-the-Trainer Online Workshop

ChemAttitudes, a collaborative project between the NISE Network and American Chemical Society, used a design-based research approach to develop a learning framework and a kit of hands-on informal educational activities to stimulate interest, a sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy.

NanoGagliato

Partner Highlight: NanoGagliato, Italy: Where Science Meets the Public

August 23, 2016

Paola Ferrari, NanoGagliato

NanoPiccola – a junior academy established to educate and inspire youth in nanoscience The Eighth Edition of NanoPiccola , the junior academy of nanosciences based in Gagliato, Calabria, Italy, took place at the end of July 2016. Gagliato is a...

Museum of Science Building with Biology event 2016

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at the Museum of Science in Boston

Caroline Lowenthal, Museum of Science

The Museum of Science in Boston hosted its Building with Biology event on Sunday, June 26. It was open to all museum visitors, and included the hands-on activities from the kit, a few hands-on activities from the pilot year, a...

NanoDays 2014 Training Videos now available!

December 18, 2013

Catherine McCarthy

These short videos are perfect for NanoDays 2014 staff and volunteer training. Please feel free to distribute these links to people volunteering at your NanoDays event. All of these videos may be downloaded from Vimeo simply by creating a free...

Partner Highlight: CNSE at the University of Albany

Many NISE Net partners planned great NanoDays events at their museums or research centers, but a few went a little further afield. For instance, as part of a comprehensive line-up of events for NanoDays, the College of Nanoscale Science and...

2010 Kavli Price in Nanoscience

The Kavli Prize recently announced their 2010 winners, and Don Eigler of IBM's Almaden Research Centre and Nadrian Seeman of New York University won in the nanoscience category. Eigler was the first person to move an individual atom in a...

Kickoff for NanoDays 2010

February 5, 2010

The NanoDays kits have been shipped and the digital resources are ready for downloading. Now it's time to get busy thinking about what you actually want to DO with all this stuff! Whether this is your first time creating a...

Annual Meeting Photos!

October 5, 2009

NISE Net members prototyped a new twister-style game about scale at our recent Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We'll have it at the ASTC Conference so you can test your knowledge of macro, micro, and nano scales as well as...

Introducing NanoDays: Visualized

Institutions reporting as of April 23, 2009: 50 Beck Tench , here, your friendly NISE Net Online Community Manager. I'll be blogging NanoDays report results as they come in over the next couple of months and visualizing that data so...

DragonflyTV Nano

Jasmine and Melinda beneath a nasturtium leaf umbrella DragonflyTV , the PBS science show for 'tweens, recently finished six new episodes of DragonflyTV Nano . The season, featuring real kids conducting inquiry-based investigations, was filmed at a number of NISE...

NanoDays 2010 Digital Kit

Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.