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Newsletter: December 2017

NETWORK NEWS Celebrating Network partners year of Earth and space events It's nearing the end of the year and the NISE Network would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our partners for all the great work you've
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Newsletter: November 2017

COMMUNITY NEWS Training videos filmed for 2018 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit Throughout September and October, NISE Network project staff have been filming a total of 21 videos to accompany the hands-on activities in the 2018 Explore Science: Earth
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Newsletter: October 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community. COMMUNITY NEWS November 1st deadline to submit application for free Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018 toolkit Will the Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018
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Moon Adventure Game logos

Promotional materials for Moon Adventure Game including logos in multiple formats.
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Online Workshop Recording: Nano Brown-Bag: Nanotechnology and Pseudoscience

Online professional development workshop recording (2015).
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a young learner uses the Nanomedicine Exhibit, where a video plays on a computer monitor

Nanomedicine Explorer Kiosk exhibit

An exhibit that was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition that is an interactive, updateable multimedia kiosk and media package, that is also available as a component of the Nanomedicine Exhibition.
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Space Guess Quest Game Board

Revised Custom Graphics for Space Guess Quest game in the 2019 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit

March 8, 2019
Ali Jackson
2019 Explore Science: Earth & Space physical toolkit recipients: *NEW* physical copies of the Space Guess Quest game cards and game boards have been shipped so partners should be receiving these revised materials soon!
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Moon Adventure Game Summative Evaluation Report 2023 July cover

Moon Adventure Game summative evaluation reveals game players are more interested in Moon and space science and have a stronger science identity

September 19, 2023
Catherine McCarthy, Arizona State University
The Moon Adventure Game Summative Evaluation reveals game players are more more interested in Moon science and space exploration and have a stronger sense of science identity.
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Moon Adventure Game - Introduction

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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Moon Adventrue Game Twitch

Partner Highlight: Moon Adventure Game gets the Twitch Treatment in Durham, NC

November 22, 2021
Max Cawley, Museum of Life and Science
About a year since its release, and after months of play by elementary and middle schoolers on the Museum floor, the Moon Adventure Game underwent a new kind of test: a trial run featuring experienced escape room designers streamed live for the public on Twitch.
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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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Moon Game at Bootheel Youth Museum-Challenge 5

Partner Highlight: To the Moon and Back – The Moon Adventure Game at Bootheel Youth Museum, Malden, Missouri

May 27, 2021
Christina Leavell, Science Museum of Minnesota
Bootheel Youth Museum uses the Moon Adventure Game along with its many other space science programs and exhibits
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Partner Highlight: Connecting the Neuro Futures Card Game with Science Fiction at the Museum of Science, Boston

June 28, 2023
Christina Leavell, Arizona State University
Partner Highlight offering a list of sci-fi connections to the Neuro Futures Card Game that was created by Susan Heilman from the Museum of Science, Boston.
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Adult Learners Sit Having Discussion While Engaging with the Neuro Futures Card Game

Partner Highlight: Arizona State University Engages Learners with the Neuro Futures Card Game During Emerging Technologies Experience

February 9, 2024
Christina Leavell, Arizona State University
Partner Highlight about ASU staff using the Neuro Futures Card game during January 2024 Annual Winter School Event on Emerging Technologies.
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First Page of the German Translation of Cards for Humanity from Games for the Future

Partner Highlight: Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe, Germany Translates the NISE Network's "Games for the Future" Activities

March 5, 2024
Christina Leavell, Arizona State University
A German translation of the NISE Network's "Games for the Future" activities is now available!
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Partner Highlight: Arizona Science Center Introduces Scale and Nano-Medicine in Mobile Game

October 1, 2014
Frank Kusiak, The Lawrence Hall of Science
"The game, ‘ Doctor Know ,’ introduces the general public, students and teachers to current biomedical research encouraged by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ (NIH) Roadmap. In addition to basic medical research, it aims to highlight the processes...
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Facilitator and Learner arrange blocks on a Lunar crater map

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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NanoVenture game about nanotechnology and society

June 18, 2009
Vrylena Olney
It's not a NISE Net product, but our partners at the University of Wisconsin - Madison MRSEC just finished their NanoVenture game! The game explores connections between science (specifically nanotechnology) and society. Greta Zenner , the Director of the Interdisciplinary...
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miSci Schenectady NY visitor playing the Moon Adventure Game

Partner Highlight: Celebrating Birthdays at miSci in Schenectady, NY with the Moon Adventure Game!

January 28, 2022
Krysia Kornecki, Schenectady Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) and Ali Jackson, Sciencenter
At the Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) in Schenectady, New York, space-themed birthday parties have been a hit. The space themed birthday program includes free time to explore the museum, a thirty-minute activity, party room time, and a customized live sky show in the Suits-Bueche planetarium of the birthday person’s night sky on the day they were born.
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Seven New NanoDays Activities for 2011

December 9, 2010
Vrylena Olney
NanoDays will be celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and the kit's gotten a bit of an update in honor of that birthday. In particular, this year's kit includes seven brand-new activities. All the materials to run the activities are...
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The Leonardo

Partner Highlight: The Leonardo Conducts Team-Based Inquiry on their All-Girls Nano-Themed Summer Camp!

November 3, 2014
Brooke McNaughton, The Leonardo
If you want to do something big, you’ve got to think small! Yes, you read that right—we’re talking atomic level tiny. Female scientists and engineers lead this all-girls camp into the amazing world of nanoscience using art, technology, and even games. Campers also developed their own activity to share with their friends and family at home. STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) is what we are all about here at The Leonardo!
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Twenty Years of Nanotechnology! Opportunity to engage your community with NanoDays activities

August 14, 2023
Catherine McCarthy, Arizona State University
This year the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) community will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, which authorized the creation and funding of the NNI. In 2003, the United States made the long-term commitment to be a world leader in nanoscale science and technology through the passage of this law. This October, around National Nanotechnology Day (October 9), we will mark this milestone with a series of events that reflect on NNI advances and applications that have enabled the nanotechnology revolution and envision our promising future. We invite the U.S. nanotechnology community to join this celebration! Details will be forthcoming on nano.gov."
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Society for Neuroscience 2023 conference Neuro Futures card game displayed on table

Changing Brains activities and poster at Society for Neuroscience conference

December 13, 2023
Catherine McCarthy, Arizona State University
A poster about the Changing Brains project entitled “New Tools for Neuroethics Engagement: Mutual Learning through Card Games & More,” was presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference Neuroscience 2023 held in Washington DC. Claire Weichselbaum and Jayatri Das also facilitated the Changing Brains activities, including the Neuro Futures card game, with conference attendees at the Dana Foundation reception.
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Partner Highlight: Mission: Nano

June 19, 2014
Aaron Guerro, Children's Museum of Houston and Ennio Tasciotti, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to play the Mission: Nano game. Funded by a NISE Network mini-grant , the Houston Methodist Research Institute ( HMRI ) and Rice University's Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning...
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Logos for the Allen Institute, Pacific Science Center, and Brain Fest 2024; main graphic is multicolored dots arranged to look like the human brain on an all black background

Partner Highlight: BrainFest: A Cerebral Celebration with Pacific Science Center & the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA

April 26, 2024
Claire Weichselbaum, PhD, Allen Institute
Pacific Science Center celebrated Brain Awareness Week with BrainFest: A Cerebral Celebration on March 16, 2024. Scientists from the Allen Institute and students from the University of Washington hosted activity stations throughout the science center, which included resources from the NISE Network's Changing Brains kit.
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