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NISE Net at the ASTC Annual Conference
August 27, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference is coming up at the end of October and the NISE Net will have a bunch of stuff going on there. Here's a preliminary list of what's happening: Welcome Reception Meet us for...
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NISE Net ASTC Sessions
August 27, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Here's a full list of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference sessions that will be featuring NISE Net work or findings from our work, sorted by date and time. Please keep in mind that session descriptions are taken from...
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2009 Annual Meeting Sessions
DAY 1, MONDAY, SEPT. 14 WHAT'S GOING ON...
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Nano Haiku: Star Trek and Nanites
August 12, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Vicki Coats of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry recently wrote her first nano haiku, inspired by a Star Trek episode that featured nanites: Before Borg attack Make nanites ahead of time Locutus will fail Here's the clip:
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Nano Bite: August 2009
Welcome to the August Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new in the Network? → Sunblock! Now that the weather has gotten a bit more summer-like on the east coast, I've
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More Nano Haikus: Surface Area
August 4, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Untitled 1 By Keith Ostfeld of the Children's Museum of Houston Nano, oh nano With surface area so Small, but big impact And here's an activity about surface area: Exploring Properties: Surface Area
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Nano Poetry Boundaries Broken!
August 4, 2009
Vrylena Olney
I knew the NISE Net was special. But even I did not expect this. Only one day after the Nano Bite e-newsletter went out, I am happy to announce that we have our first ever nano sestina. I am verklempt...
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First Ever Nano Limerick!
August 3, 2009
Vrylena Olney
As promised in the August Nano Bite e-newsletter, the First Ever Nano Limerick by Anders Liljeholm of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry : There once was a science named Nano, which led to new products by Wham-O. It's...
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Washington DC Nano News - Learning Informal Science in Congress: People, Places, and Policy
July 27, 2009
Margaret Glass
authored by Margaret Glass The National Academies report Learning Science in Informal Environments can provide our field a more identifiable and meaningful place at the table of education policy - if we learn how to use it for that purpose...
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Changes Afoot at NIH - More $$$ for Science Education?
July 27, 2009
Carol Lynn Alpert
The National Institutes of Health maintains a 30 billion dollar portfolio of health and biomedical research, a yearly budget that roundly trumps that of the National Science Foundation (about 7 billion) and the National Nanotechnology Initiative (1.6 billion). Although NIH...
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