What exactly does it take to make a NanoDays kit? Oh, only 650 personhours, 3,600 boxes, over a mile of reinforced tape (6,000ft!), and a lot of love.
See the whole process here!
(Don't worry, it won't take you hundreds of hours to watch.....we sped it up.)
Our apologies for not communicating this better, but the sieves for the Ball Sorter activity (NanoDays 2012) will be shipped in the same box as the nano gold. The sieves did not arrive at the warehouse in time to pack them in the large box. So, in an effort to avoid sending all of you yet another separate box, we did some troubleshooting and decided to pack them with the gold.
We would like to welcome the science center Laberinto de las Ciencias y las Artes (Labyrinth of Science and Art, by its name in Spanish) as a NISE Net international member.
The Arizona Science Center, a NISE Net Partner since 2009, has been a model partner to those of us in the Southwest Region. With a lot of help from staff like Rei Cameron, Laura Martin, Joshua Sheehan, and Sari Neumeyer, they have thoroughly incorporated nano into their museum practice. They present NISE Net tabletop activities year round.
Unfortunately, this is not a story about a man named Jed, who could barely keep his family fed; who became a millionaire and subsequently moved away from there. No, this is a story about a solution of nano gold and why it’s being protected from the cold. It will be shipped separately from the main NanoDays kit, only to keep it from getting frost-bit. Ok, no more rhyming. It’s starting to get confining. (ok, seriously…)
The Imaginarium of South Texas in Laredo, TX has been an involved member of the NISE Network since 2008 when they first started hosting NanoDays events. This past year they took their programming to a new level by adopting the “Alice in Nanoland” children's book and making it all their own.
NanoDays kits will be shipped in early January, 2012. Please note that the kit will come in three separate boxes this year:
Regional hub leaders are contacting NanoDays physical kit applicants individually regarding awards. As always, making decisions was a difficult process with only 225 physical kits to award. We encourage all those who were not awarded a physical kit to utilize the digital materials in their ongoing education efforts. The new digital kit will be posted here by January 15th: http://www.nisenet.org/nanodays/kit/digital
Day 2 of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantee Conference in DC on December 6 had a signficant focus on education. As a discussant following one of the panels, Bob Chang, Director of the Nanotechnology Center for Learning and Teaching, made a compelling presentation on the need for nano education.
NanoDays
Vrylena Olney
Clark Miller
Larry Bell
Carol Lynn Alpert
Rashmi Nanjundaswamy
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0532536 and 0940143
