Google Expedition: Virtual Learning
Google expedition is a virtual reality teaching tool that lets teachers lead or join immersive virtual trips all over the world. It allows students to get up close to historical landmarks, dive underwater and visit outer space! Teachers act as a “guide” to lead classroom-sized groups of “explorers” through collections of 360-degree 3D images while […]
International Festivall: “A Taste of Iberia”
During this festival, students and members of the community will have the opportunity to engage and become acquainted with culturally diverse practices and products of Spain and Portugal. Cultural displays, live music, food and authentic dance will combine to create engaging activities for students and community members.
Stage Floor Up Grade
Over the past several years, with the help of the NPEF, the lighting console, upgraded sound system and overhead rigging have all dramatically improved the technical capabilities of our auditorium. This current proposal will remove the existing floor panels and replace them with all new flooring on and off stage.
Biomedical Engineering at the Liberty Science Center
From a theatre at LSC, students gaze through a video conference “window” into the operating room and converse with doctors from the first incision to the last suture. During this time, LSC facilitators move among students in the theatre-shaping conversation, structuring questions and passing around models of human organs under discussion.
Putting an ‘A’ into the STEM of Biomedical Engineering
The purchase of 15 Scribbler 3D pens exposes students in the engineering design process and the integral part prototyping plays in this process. These pens introduce students to the concepts of tissue engineering and synthetic organs. They also allow students to design their own solutions to biomedical engineering problems.