We are pleased to announce that RIMOSA has been awarded an NSF funded physical kit, with all of the materials and instructions to deliver high-quality hands-on activities to engage the pubic in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology! Check it out on the NISE Network! We plan to host at least one, and ideally more, programs with [...]
Please consider donating your old video camera, computer or other technology to RIMOSA’s outreach programs. It will have a very useful life with us, and it will provide a a tax deduction for you! For our Animation program, we need Sony (or similar) digital camcorders, tripods for camcorders, projectors which can project movies from video camcorders, laptops which can [...]
We recently developed our first outreach program! It’s a hands-on experience (of course) designed to illustrate (pun intended) the science and art of animation. Students learned about “persistence of vision”, made thaumatropes, and worked in teams to come up with plots, characters and create their own stop-motion animations! We ran our first outreach program at the Wheeler [...]
I had a good meeting with Dr. Mary Rapien (biologist with a strong interest in outreach and education) and Kathleen Shanks Rehder (6 years running a chemistry/physical science outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison). We have decades of experience in outreaches among us, have the scientific, educational and administrative ability and are excited to [...]
I’ve been thinking about Art/Science outreach programs, and here are some ideas – which I will flesh out later. 1. Polymers 2. Tessellations/crystals 3.Fun with flour (papier mache, playdough, cookies) 4.Pigments and color
I had a terrific meeting with Rachel Atlas, a curator at The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab (RISD). One of the things she mentioned (which others had as well, but this was in some sense the comment that tipped the balance) is that I should have programs to do in the schools. So look in the [...]
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