NanoDays

If you're a researcher, there's a big difference between talking about nano with fellow classmates, colleagues, or professors, and talking about nano with hundreds of Museum of Science visitors on a Saturday afternoon. NanoDays at our institution generally means lots of help from a cadre of graduate students. As smart and enthusiastic as our volunteers are, they're also often new to doing demonstrations and activities with public audiences.

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 public event about nano or you are a NanoDays veteran, it helps to start planning your activities and contacting collaborators early.

NanoDays is next month, and the NISE Net has a number of training materials that might be useful for those new to presenting nano content to public audiences:

For this installment of the NanoDays Blog, I want you to answer the question: How did you plan and schedule your NanoDays event?

NanoDays 2009 at Maryland Science Center

Sylvia Algire, Assistant Manager of the Field Trips department at the Exploratorium just emailed a comment about her experience with NanoDays 2009.

How did you explain NanoDays to your PR team?

First, thanks to the folks who've contributed examples to the Kit Activities vs. Non-Kit Activities post.

NanoDays at Da Vinci Science Center (See more pictures on Facebook)

Tabletop Activities and Cart Demos for NanoDays 2009: (Click for full-sized version)

There are currently 124 pictures from 19 institutions participating in our Flickr NanoDays 2009 pool (opens in a new window). If you have photos from your event, please add yours.

Frank Kusiak of the Lawrence Hall of Science took a NanoDays road trip to southern California and sent me a bunch of information about his travels! Read on for details and photos.

San Diego Science Festival