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Miami Science Museum’s Amazon Voyage
Nearly 1.5 million visitors throughout the U.S. and Canada have enjoyed the Museum’s touring exhibition: Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches. Launched in 2005, with competitive funding from the National Science Foundation, the exhibition is currently at the Don … Continue reading
Art + Science + Engineering = Fun + Learning
How closely related are science, art, and engineering? The Museum recently held a workshop for representatives of its GirlsRISE nationwide network of museums and science centers related to this question. It focused on program models that use art and science … Continue reading
Posted in For Teachers, MiaSci at Large, Partnerships
Tagged GirlsRISE, Snap circuits
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Star Gazers “Keep Looking Up” With Live Lunar Eclipse
WPBT2’s Star Gazers will host a Live Lunar Eclipse Event from Reno, Nevada on Saturday, December 10th from 4:00-7:00 a.m. (PST) and 7:00-10:00 a.m. (EST). To view the eclipse and join the conversation, visit http://www.wpbt2.org/lunareclipse Star Gazers, a production of … Continue reading
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Tagged Lunar Eclipse, Miami Science Museum, Star Gazers, WPBT2
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ECHOS of the Future
Children are born to be scientists – both scientists and children spend a lot of their time asking, or wondering, “why?” So the Museum is collaborating with the University of Miami on a research study to understand the effectiveness of … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, For Teachers, In the Community, Partnerships
Tagged ECHOS, University of Miami
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Wonderful World of Wizard Science
During teacher workdays, the Museum offers exciting and educational one-day camps that are sure to appeal to the scientist in everyone. Last Friday, a group of lucky kids entered Miami Science Museum’s World of Wizards to discover the science behind … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, For Teachers, In the Museum
Tagged Magic Pepper Experiment, Miami Science Museum, MiniCamp, Science, Wizard Science
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Discover NEEMO
Where on Earth could you really prepare for the challenges of space? As it turns out, it’s right in our back yard. NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project) sends NASA employees to live in Aquarius – an underwater laboratory … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, For Teachers, In the Museum
Tagged APEX, Aquarius, Digital Wave, NEEMO, NEO, Upward Bound Math & Science
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Buzzzzzzzz
If you really think about what makes a scientist, you’d have to agree that every young child is a scientist. Just like scientists, little ones are always asking that little one-word question: “WHY?” The Museum’s ECHOS program (Early Childhood Hands-On … Continue reading
GECO: Girls Engineering Competition Open
On May 21, 2011, the Miami Science Museum hosted an electrical engineering tournament for Miami-Dade County middle schools titled GECO (Girls Engineering Competition Open). The GECO program, which is funded by the Kennedy Family Foundation, addresses the need to increase … Continue reading
Using Virtual Worlds to Inspire Youth in STEM
The Girls RISE Museum Network (http://girlsrisenet.org/ works to strengthen the professional capacity of informal science educators to engage and motivate minority girls to explore and pursue science and engineering careers. On May 6-7, teams from the California Academy of Sciences, COSI, … Continue reading
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Tagged avatar, Girls RISE, Joanna Haigh, Virtual World
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The Waggle Dance
It’s like a movie set, but better, because it involved pre-schoolers imitating a bee dance. This was for one of our sessions where we recorded a teacher leading a science lesson with pre-school kids. She was part of our professional … Continue reading


