In The Community

MiaSci is dedicated to serving all members of our community. One of the ways we do this is by going out into the community to deliver programming, from schools and parks to shopping malls and street festivals, ensuring that everyone can enjoy a memorable science moment. Whether it’s meeting one of the animals from our Wildlife Clinic, sampling some solar cooking or catching a science demo, the chance to take part in some live science learning may be right around your corner. Check out our Calendar of Events to see when we might be in your area.

Illuminating the Planetarium

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

When the new Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Science is completed downtown, external illumination of the planetarium sphere will make it a sight to be seen, day or night. Last week, Museum staff met with a team from Electrosonic, … Continue reading →

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ASPIRE!

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

Students and facilitators of the Upward Bound Program, President and CEO of the Miami Science Museum Gillian Thomas, and Vice President of Education Dr. Judy Brown accept the AT&T ASPIRE Program Award check from AT&T Executive, JC Flores to support … Continue reading →

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Beep Beep! Special Delivery!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by admin

Let ECHOS Year 2 begin! In the second week of September, just in time for back to school, ECHOS staff delivered 38 material kit sets to 38 classrooms at 21 Head Start childcare centers. Teachers of local Head Start centers … Continue reading →

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A New Year for ECHOS

Posted on August 22, 2012 by admin

A week before children headed back to school, Head Start teachers were already getting re-energized for ECHOS at the first workshop of the year. The Museum’s Early Childhood Hands-On Science (ECHOS) initiative, in collaboration with the University of Miami’s Department … Continue reading →

Posted in For Teachers, In the Community, Partnerships | Tagged Department of Education, early childhood education, ECHOS, Head Start, Institue for Education Sciences, University of Miami Department of Psychology | Leave a comment

Go Green!

Posted on August 13, 2012 by admin

There are only so many hours in the day, but still, students in the second session of Digital WAVE this summer managed to build an entire 3D house in a virtual world in just 2 weeks. The goal was to … Continue reading →

Posted in For Students, In the Community, In the Museum | Tagged blue carbon, Digital Wave, Fernando Bretos, green energy, Mark Spalding, Ocean Foundation, OceanGate, Oleta River State Park, Reclamation Project, solar chimney, solar panel, water turbine, wind turbine | Leave a comment

5, 4, 3, 2, 1….. Blast Off!

Posted on July 31, 2012 by admin

This summer, young people from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade are doing all kinds of things at the Miami Science Museum’s Summer Camp. From Kitchen Chemistry and Icky Sticky Goopy Glop, from Amusement Park Physics to Superhero Science, they are designing video games, investigating … Continue reading →

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Tell Us What YOU Want to Know about the New Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science!

Posted on July 18, 2012 by admin

The new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, opening in 2015 in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park, will be counted among the world’s most innovative and sustainable science museums. The building itself will harness energy from water, the Sun, wind, … Continue reading →

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ROVs Boldly Go Where Students Can’t Go

Posted on July 6, 2012 by admin

Underwater exploration is difficult for some obvious reasons, but it’s so important to understand marine environments. How does pollution affect marine life near the shore? What effect does temperature and salt levels have on the growth of seaweed? Does the … Continue reading →

Posted in For Students, In the Community, MiaSci at Large | Tagged Erica Moulton, MATE Center, Upward Bound Math & Science | Leave a comment

Restoring Mangroves on Virginia Key

Posted on June 29, 2012 by admin

Being in south Florida, we are literally surrounded by precious natural environments – the ocean, the coral reefs, mangroves, the Everglades, to name a few. That means we are in a position to negatively affect our surroundings if we don’t … Continue reading →

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Miami Youth Offer Scenarios for Global Sustainability

Posted on June 21, 2012 by admin

Scientists gather all the time at conferences and meetings to share ideas, research, and discoveries. But how often do high school students get to actively participate in these meetings – especially ones with global consequences? This week, scientists and world leaders … Continue reading →

Posted in For Students, In the Community, In the Museum, MiaSci at Large, Partnerships | Tagged ASTC, Chabot Observatory, Experimentarium, Fiocruz Foundation, Kankhomba Secondary School, Macau Science Center, Madatech, Maloka, MIDE, Museo della Scienza, Museu de Vida, Questacon, Rio+20, SCEnaRioS, Science Center Singapore, SciPort, TechnoMuses, UNESCO | Leave a comment

In the Community