Blog: Partner Highlights

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...
The Leonardo

Partner Highlight: Girls Full STEAM Ahead! at the Leonardo

June 9, 2014
Erika DuRoss, The Leonardo Museum
We’re all familiar with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) — it’s a buzzword that continues to build momentum in education. There are dozens of studies on how to improve STEM education at all levels. But what happens when you...

Partner Highlight: Nano Beyond NanoDays! Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC)

May 1, 2014
Ali Jackson
Like many communities around the country Rochester, New York goes all out celebrating NanoDays . Visitors to the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) joined museum staff and volunteers as well as staff and students from the Rochester Institute of...

Partner Highlight: The Power of HI-Nano, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawai'i

February 26, 2014
Frank Kusiak
Coauthored by: Ahia Dye from 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i If you ever find yourself on Hawai'i, aka The Big Island, make your way to Hilo and the beautiful and engaging 'Imiloa Astronomy Center . 'Imiloa is the premier learning...

Partner Highlight: Marbles Kids Museum Exposes Students and Teachers to the Mysteries of the Unseen World

February 1, 2014
Brad Herring
Author credit: Hardin Engelhardt, Marbles Kids Museum Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC is exposing students to worlds too fast, too slow, too small, too vast and simply invisible through National Geographic’s new documentary Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D...

Partner Highlight: TBI at the Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia

November 26, 2013
Jayatri Das
Team-based inquiry (TBI) is the NISE Network’s practical approach to evaluation focused around an ongoing cycle of inquiry: question, investigate, reflect, and improve. This month, we’re sharing a story of TBI at work from the Children’s Discovery Museum of West...

Partner Highlight: University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

August 30, 2013
Frank Kusiak
The University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC-CEIN), based at UCLA, does a great job of reaching broad audiences and fostering collaborations. In order to reach broad audiences outside of academia, the UC-CEIN partners with Cal Poly...

Partner Highlight: Nano Extravaganza in New York’s Capital Region!

June 4, 2013
Ali Jackson
In February of 2013, longtime NISE Net children’s museum partner, the Children’s Museum of Science and Technology in Troy, NY (CMOST) , announced that it will become part of SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) . Under CNSE's...

Partner Highlight: BIG nano Experiences at the South Dakota Discovery Center

April 25, 2013
Christina Akers
The South Dakota Discovery Center (SDDC) has always promoted cutting edge science and supported youth in their community. Currently touring the Nano mini-exhibit to schools and libraries throughout the Dakotas, SDDC works hard to bring their programming to students in...

Partner Highlight: Arkansas Discovery Network

March 18, 2013
Aaron Guerrero
The NISE Net hosted a series of 4 Nano & Society workshops this past fall that focused on preparing museum educators to engage the public in conversations about the relationship between nanotechnology and society. In addition to learning new hands-on...