NISE Network Blog

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.

Partner Highlight: A Mammoth Production - Storming the Castle Museum Theater Script Now Available for Download

November 17, 2021

Christina Leavell, Science Museum of Minnesota

During the NISE Network’s Building with Biology project, the Science Museum of Minnesota developed a stage presentation with just this opportunity in mind. “Storming the Castle” is a museum theater show that introduces audiences to the field of synthetic biology and presents facts while representing the views of an ambitious scientist and a concerned member of the community.

Partner Highlight: Sierra Vista, Arizona Celebrates Webb Space Telescope for All

November 1, 2021

Frank Kusiak, Lawrence Hall of Science

The community of Sierra Vista, Arizona is hosting numerous outreach and public engagement programs this fall to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Elizabeth Wrozek, curator for the Henry F. Hauser Museum, Ted Forte from the Patterson Observatory, and the Huachuca Astronomy Club of Southeastern Arizona collaborated to bring space science and astronomy education resources to Sierra Vista’s wider community including neuro-diverse adults and children.

Westchester Childrens Museum Planets Solar System model hanging from ceiling

Partner Highlight: It’s a bird, it’s a plane... It’s the Solar System! Westchester Children’s Museum in Rye, NY Celebrates the James Webb Space Telescope Launch in a Big Way

October 29, 2021

Alyssa Johnson, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY and Leta Wong, Westchester Children’s Museum, Rye, NY

In celebration of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope launch, Westchester Children’s Museum, located in Rye, NY, will explore the wonders of the universe with special programming and activities on November 13th! Chosen as one of NASA's 500 celebration partners, the Museum is highlighting new and existing exhibits and programs that explore all things space.

Wallops NASA Virtual field trip classroom image

Partner Highlight: NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center in Virginia offers virtual field trips to students around the world!

October 28, 2021

Amy Barra, Elizabeth Hall, and Dana Wright, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center, Wallops Island, VA

Staff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center created a series of virtual field trips with guided hands-on activities from the Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits for students all across the US.

Photo of a group of people discussing Human Genome Editing at a public forum

Partner Highlight: A public gene editing forum in Phoenix Arizona from the eyes of a novice facilitator

October 4, 2021

Dean Frias

October Partner Highlight from Dean Frias, depicting the first time facilitating a public forum in Arizona.

Sublimation Bubbles - Eastern Oregon University

Partner Highlight: NISE Network Partners Celebrate National Chemistry Week 2021 - "Fast or slow...Chemistry makes it go!"

September 29, 2021

Christina Leavell

NISE Net partners celebrate National Chemistry Week in a variety of ways.

Partner Highlight: Creating Virtual Field Trip videos for a virtual audience- Canyon Country Discovery Center, Monticello, UT

September 9, 2021

Ben Muhlestein

Canyon Country Discovery Center engages with local community during the COVID-19 pandemic through innovative and educational videos posted to social media.

Partner Highlight: Out of this World Programming - Science Central, Fort Wayne, IN “Mission to Mars” Summer Camp 2021

September 3, 2021

Christina Leavell

Science Central's “Mission to Mars” program features activities that engaged campers in everything from launching into space to working on the surface of Mars.

Behind the scenes image of the 2021 MoS Train-the-Trainer filming

Diving deep into the “Let’s Do Chemistry” framework through train-the-trainer workshops

August 4, 2021

Emily Hostetler, Museum of Science, Boston

The Museum of Science in Boston and the American Chemical Society hosted online train-the-trainer workshops for chemistry outreach professionals in fall 2020 - winter 2021 to dive deep into the Explore Science: Let’s Do Chemistry framework to learn how to increase the impact of their hands-on chemistry activities.