Transcript MSCOPE - University of Chicago

MSCOPE
University - Museum Collaboration
Grad Student Trainship Program – Informal
presentation of science
MSCOPE
One year Internship program (since 2001)
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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
Collaboration
• SciTech Hands-On Museum
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Adler Planetarium
• The University of Chicago
What do we do?
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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.
We spend a lot of time
learning from the museums
& try to help them out,
labels evals demos
And then we have to develop our
own projects…
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
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
Two examples:
Two examples:
Thank you
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People involved in MSCOPE:
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
SciTech:
Ronen Mir
Shawn Carlson
Carina
Ted
Adler:
Mark S
Karen
Previous years:
Jim Sweitzer
Debby Mir
Anshu Dubey
Leo Irakliotis
Our Interns:
FIN
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
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