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Tag Archives: Digital Wave
Digital WAVE: Student Movie Showcase
Making Movies. Creating and scripting 3-D animations. Navigating in virtual worlds. Customizing your own avatars. Learning about climate change and its effects on South Florida. Designing structures to withstand hurricanes. Combine all of these elements, and you get the Museum’s … Continue reading
What is Sclerochronology?
Most everyone was told growing up about how when a tree is cut down, you can look at the tree rings to figure out the tree’s age, and also how much the tree grew each year. Dendrochronology deals with this … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, Partnerships
Tagged Digital Wave, Kevin Helmle, NOAA AOML, RSMAS
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If a Mosquito Can Make a Difference, So Can We
There is a saying that goes: if you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito. When it comes to the subject of climate change, it seems unbelievable that we … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, In the Museum
Tagged Amy Clement, Digital Wave, RSMAS, sea level rise
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Thank You Astronaut Leland Melvin!
We just had an amazing, inspiring talk with Astronaut Leland Melvin in Second Life. Almost 100 students from the Museum’s youth development programs participated. Here are a few shots from in-world… Video clips are coming soon. We truly appreciate the … Continue reading
Posted in For Students, In the Museum
Tagged astronaut, Digital Wave, Leland Melvin, Second Life, Upward Bound Math & Science, Youth Expo
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Avatar Meets Superman
Astronaut Leland Melvin’s avatar prepares to meet with Students in Second Life. Leland D. Melvin, NASA Associate Administrator for Education, will meet and talk with museum-mentored high school students in a computer-generated, 3-D environment created by students on the Miami … Continue reading
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Tagged astronaut, avatar, Digital Wave, Leland Melvin, NASA, NFL, Upward Bound Math & Science, Youth Expo
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Canoeing at Biscayne National Park
What better way to learn about the ecology of coastal Florida than by canoe? The Digital WAVE students went to Biscayne National Park to go canoeing and meet with a Park Ranger to talk about south Florida coastal environments and … Continue reading


