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Newsletter: March 2021

NETWORK NEWS 2021/2022 Sustainability Fellowship Opportunity The application deadline for the NISE Network 2021/2022 Sustainability Fellowship has been extended, applications are now due, March 15 . With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services staff from 90 museums
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Partner Highlight: Museums Nationwide Celebrate NASA Mars Perseverance Landing!

March 3, 2021
Dean Frias, Arizona State University
Museums all over the United States celebrated the NASA Perseverance mission and landing with a variety of public engagement programs both in-person and online. Programs covered a variety of content focused on the science behind the mission, the engineering to land the mission, and past and future exploration on Mars.
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Partner Highlight: Virtual Outreach Best Practices from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Virtual Astronomy Days

March 2, 2021
Kari Wouk - North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh NC
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC held its 30th annual Astronomy Days event this January…virtually! Typically, Astronomy Days draws 14K-16K visitors over the two-day weekend event. With the pandemic, such a large event was an impossibility...
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Partner Highlight: tag! Children's Museum in St. Augustine, FL engages children through online videos

March 2, 2021
Michele Wiles, tag! Children's Museum, St. Augustine FL
Talk About Genius! At Home in a Digital World of Play and Learning In March of 2020 we faced the realities and challenges of the COVID Pandemic and its impact on our programming for children and families. We took stock...
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Newsletter: February 2021

NETWORK NEWS 2021/2022 Sustainability Fellowship opportunity Applications are now being accepted for the 2021-2022 NISE Network Sustainability Fellowship professional development program, with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Staff from 90 museums will participate in a series
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Newsletter: January 2021

NETWORK NEWS The year 2020 was challenging for many of us individually, as well as for our organizations and our communities. One bright spot in a tough year was our network community, which came together to offer each other support
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Partner Highlight: WOW! Children's Museum virtual programming and ELPASO collaboration

January 7, 2021
Gini Philipp, WOW! Children's Museum
Like so many museums and institutions around the country who have been impacted by COVID-19, WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette, CO had to temporarily closed our doors in Spring 2020 and make the quick pivot to providing virtual education programs...
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NISE Network Year in Review 2020

January 6, 2021
Rae Ostman, Arizona State University
National Informal STEM Education Network Year in Review 2020
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New Improvements to the nisenet.org website

January 5, 2021
Catherine McCarthy
Have you explored the nisenet.org website lately? Just in time to kickoff 2021, the website has a fresh new look, more intuitive navigation, and many technical upgrades. We’ve been listening to partner feedback and we think you’ll like what you...
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Partner Highlight: Carnegie Science Center hosts Space Out Astronomy Weekend

December 16, 2020
Brad Peroney, Carnegie Science Center
Space Out Astronomy Weekend is Carnegie Science Center’s annual celebration of all things astronomy.
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Explore Science: Earth & Space 2020 physical toolkit - Part B shipping to 350 partners across the United States!

December 16, 2020
Ali Jackson, Sciencenter
Part B NISE Network’s 2020 Explore Science: Earth & Space physical toolkit, including the *new* Moon Adventure Game is in the process of shipping!
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Newsletter: December 2020

Check out this month's NISE Network newsletter for the latest project and professional development opportunities, upcoming events, community announcements, science news, and much more.
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The 2021 Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities project application is now open!

November 27, 2020
Sara Benson, Museum of Science
Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) 2021 project and stipend announcement to support public forums in climate hazards and resilience planning.
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Mars Habitat Project

Build a Human Habitat on Mars is a hands-on exhibit designed to inspire, engage, and educate the next generation of explorers about human exploration on Mars; 52 copies will be designed and fabricated as an addition to the 52 copies of the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition located throughout the United States.
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Partner Highlight: NISE Network Activities Add More Learning Opportunities to a Rural Central Pennsylvania Children’s Museum

November 3, 2020
Lisa Ditty, Lykens Valley Children's Museum
Lykens Valley Children’s Museum’s (LVCM) “Launch Into Learning” space inspired exhibition debuted with new exhibits, and a space shuttle, for children to explore and new STEM stations from the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Network) for even more hands-on learning about space.
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Science-To-Civics: Building Community Resilience to Climate Hazards Through Citizen Science and Public Deliberation

November 2, 2020
Sara Benson, Museum of Science
The Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) project engages public participants in active learning about climate hazards through citizen science, also known as community science, deliberative forums and resilience planning. Learn more about this project and upcoming opportunities, including an online workshop on December 1st.
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Touched by an Asteroid: At-home Resources for NASA’s Latest Asteroid Mission

October 29, 2020
NISE Network
NASA celebrated a major accomplishment in October when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched an ancient asteroid known as Bennu–currently more than 200 million miles away from Earth! OSIRIS-REx’s interplanetary encounter with Bennu lasted just long enough for the spacecraft to...
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Partner Highlight: Finding Success in Virtual Sustainability Programming

October 7, 2020
Nich Weller, Arizona State University
Efforts to incorporate and promote sustainability in the age of COVID might look a bit different than they did last year, but that hasn’t slowed the progress and ideas of some dedicated museum professionals. In September, the third cohort of NISE Network's Sustainability Fellowship Program shared their progress implementing a sustainability project at their museums.
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The Moon Adventure Game - An All New Interactive Experience

October 6, 2020
Christina Leavell
​​​​​​​If you received the NISE Network’s 2020 Explore Science: Earth and Space toolkit Part A earlier this year, then you have recently been contacted about receiving Part B of this year’s toolkit in the coming months. These messages mention the inclusion of a “collaborative Moon game” with this toolkit, but just what is a collaborative Moon Game? The Moon Adventure Game is a hands-on collaborative experience for STEM learning in museums and planetariums.
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Partner Highlight: Hawaii Science and Technology Museum Working Hard to Bring STEM and NISE to the Big Island of Hawaii in Challenging Times!

September 2, 2020
Christian Wong, Executive Director, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum
The Hawaii Science and Technology Museum wanted to share our current and upcoming activities with all of you. Needless to say this is going to be an incredibly challenging school year as we deal with the effects of COVID-19 and how it has affected our society, economy, and educational infrastructure. We feel a duty to continue to serve Hawaii Island as best we can through our various educational and research programs and partnerships.
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National Chemistry Week 2020

October 18, 2020 - October 25, 2020
This year's National Chemistry Week's theme is "Sticking with Chemistry." National Chemistry Week (NCW) is a public awareness campaign that promotes the value of chemistry in everyday life.
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Partner Highlight: The Lawrence Hall of Science Pauses for Racial Justice

June 30, 2020
<p>Rena Dorph, Ph.D., Director; Frank Kusiak, NISE West Regional Coordinator; Kalie Sacco, MPA, Chief of Staff, Director's Office</p>
These are indeed difficult times. We have been challenged by a series of racist killings by police that once again have laid bare the systemic institutional racism that persists in the United States. The Lawrence Hall of Science is the University of California, Berkeley’s public science center and much of our work in science education is motivated by our values of equity and social justice as well as our hope for a better future. However, recent events led us to realize that we had yet to do enough and that we need to take further and immediate action.
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Moon Adventure Game Extensions

Extending the Moon Game Experience before or after the game allows players to go further in depth with Moon content. Lists of resources include hands-on activities to play before or after the game, imagery, visualizations, audio to add to the game experience.
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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.
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Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 Physical Toolkits SHIPPING to 350 partners across the United States!

February 28, 2019
Ali Jackson
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 physical toolkit have shipped out to 350 institutions nationwide!
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