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MSCOPE

MSCOPE. University - Museum Collaboration Grad Student Trainship Program – Informal presentation of science. MSCOPE. One year Internship program (since 2001) We bring together graduate students from both the Physical and the Social Sciences

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MSCOPE

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  1. MSCOPE University - Museum Collaboration Grad Student Trainship Program – Informal presentation of science

  2. MSCOPE One year Internship program (since 2001) • We bring together graduate students from both the Physical and the Social Sciences • We work closely with museum professionals who guide us through the process of exhibit/project design. • Develop new exhibits and demos, reach out to public with (university) science

  3. Collaboration • SciTech Hands-On Museum • Museum of Science and Industry • Adler Planetarium • The University of Chicago

  4. What do we do? • The first few months are spent learning about museum practices (interpretation, evaluations, delivering demonstrations) • The rest of the year we work on developing our own science demos and exhibits.

  5. We spend a lot of time learning from the museums & try to help them out, labels evals demos

  6. And then we have to develop our own projects…

  7. Challenges: • Interaction challenge: Balancing the needs of the museums, with our abilities & interests, finding common language, social science/phys sci/museum professional • University Challenge: Convincing experts to reach out to the public first, utilizing social science students,Presenting advanced topics in an accessible and fun way • Sometimes it works, other times we fail, we learn from mistakes • Importance of research is self evident for scientists, demos to advanced & dry • The opposite: dumb down everything confine to only basic science, rehash already done things

  8. Two examples:Self-Assembly & Supernovae • Mention: • Basic setup of demo and audience • Reduce the basic idea • Connections to university science • Particular difficulties: • Higher expectations from public (experts deeply involved) • Get non-experts excited & informed • Reduce the basic idea of demo • Find fun way for presentation • Sell it to the museums

  9. Two examples:

  10. Two examples:

  11. Thank you & People involved in MSCOPE: Previous years: Jim Sweitzer Debby Mir Anshu Dubey Leo Irakliotis SciTech: Ronen Mir Shawn Carlson Carina Ted Adler: Mark S Karen Leo Kadanoff (PI) Morrie Fred (co-PI) Brenda Lopez Silva Panos Oikonomou MSI: Bryan Wunar (co-PI) Brett Nicholas Bridget Basta Erin Erin Tod Gieske

  12. Our Interns:

  13. FIN

  14. To do • Show labels/evaluations • Self-Assembly pictures (eval) • Astro (Meet Nathan for snapshots) • One more pic of Jim • Pictures Adler • Bryan Brett, MSI peeps

  15. Labels

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