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Museum Workshop Highlights Wallops Science and Engineering Missions

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Patrick A. Black

Aug 25, 2015
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Museum educators from seven states participated in a Small- to-Medium-Sized Museum Workshop at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 19-21. 

Two women on oppsoite sides of the image, both in blue t-shirts, look at each other while discussing at the Wallops Museum Workshop. The woman on the left has her hair up and is holding a pen, and the woman on the right has her hair down. People in the background are speaking and pointing from a platform with a presentation behind them, inbetween the women and the presenters are guests listening to the presenters.
Museum educators from seven states participated in a Small-to-Medium-Sized Museum Workshop at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 19-21. 
Credit: NASA

The program is designed to provide museums access to the latest NASA science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) content.

Participants received a $2,000 honorarium to develop new and enhanced exhibits to share Goddard Space Flight Center’s unique science and engineering programs, focusing on middle school students and families. In addition, participants toured the Wallops Visitors Center and engaged in site visits with Wallops scientists and engineers at the Sounding Rocket, Scientific Balloon, and Aircraft offices, as well as the Range Control Center. 

“Wallops is an excellent location for showcasing Goddard’s latest accomplishments in engineering and science because it shows how engineering is integral to Goddard’s missions and projects,” said Amanda Harvey, workshop project manager for Goddard.  

Small group activities with education and public outreach experts in heliophysics, planetary science, earth science and engineering from Goddard’s Greenbelt campus and Wallops provided workshop participants the opportunity to explore new ideas for NASA-themed exhibit design and program development

The follow-up phase of the program includes group webinars in September and October and completion of an individual final plan for a new NASA exhibit or program.

Participants were: 

  • American Helicopter Museum and Educational Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania
  • American Littoral Society/Ocean Institute, Highlands, New Jersey
  • Chincoteague Bay Field Station, Wallops Island, Virginia
  • Delmarva Discovery Center and Museum, Pocomoke City, Maryland
  • Emerald Coast Science Center, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
  • Museum of Natural History, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Northwoods Children’s Museum, Eagle River, Wisconsin
  • Palmyra Cove Nature Park and Environmental Discovery Center, Palmyra, New Jersey
  • Science Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia
  • Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Anne Garcia
757-824-1298
anne.l.garcia@nasa.gov