Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her previous posts here. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks! It’s SAT weekend for high school juniors (good luck to all you wonderful high schoolers who are taking them!) and it’s [...]
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Big Plans Ahead!
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Beeswax Candles are good for all of us!
What’s the difference between 100% natural beeswax candles and “regular” candles? Paraffin candles, the most common type available, are made from petroleum, the same crude oil that is refined to make the fuel for our cars, lawn mowers, and airplanes. When you burn a paraffin candle, you release some of the same compounds found in auto [...]
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Polishing a Project
Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her first post here. It’s mid-term week at USM, which means I’m in the dregs of research and outlines for papers. Personally, I think the best part about doing a presentation, or [...]
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Snowflakes and Thought Drops
Normally, as a college student, I welcome any snow day so that I can forget my academic responsibilities, remain in my pajamas, drink hot cocoa, and just enjoy a day’s worth of relaxation. Not so this winter. As the Community Engagement Intern, I found myself wishing that the snow would stop showing up on Tuesdays [...]
Meet Galen Richmond: SmartArtist-in-Residence!
Galen is our artist in residence, and will be spending time weekly at the Museum prototyping and testing out ideas for a series of works that he will be installing in SmartArt, our current science exhibit. He’ll install the first piece today at 4:00. As an artist in residence, he’ll be spending a lot of [...]
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Introducing…Theatre Camps!
Summertime is coming up, and I am really excited that our theatre is going to stay alive and active all summer long! A lot of theatres go black in the summertime and don’t offer any productions for audiences or opportunities for actors. Not us! Summertime is maybe our busiest time at the Children’s Museum & [...]
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Introducing…More Summer Camps!
Here in the Education office, we’re excited about our new camp offerings for this coming season. We’re going to kick off the summer series with a unique educational camp geared toward older kids called “Science Safari”. Using the creatures and critters from our Ranger Station (like our new turtles), our Tidepool Touch Tank, and our [...]
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Introducing…Science Camps!
This August we will be offering two science camps for kids ages 4 to 5. I’m having so much fun planning “Slimy, Squishy, Slick, and Slippery,” which is a week of experiencing textures. Every day, we’ll make a new type of clay or slime from scratch using simple ingredients, making and then testing predictions about [...]
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Introducing… New Camps!
Spring in Maine can be tough. As my umbrella turned inside-out on my walk to work the other day, I wistfully remembered the flip-flop weather bestowed upon us just a week ago. But April showers bring May flowers, and here at the Museum & Theatre, May flowers bring… Summer Camps! Our Education team is so [...]
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Introducing…Where Science Meets Art
The interaction between art and science is a multifarious one, and seemingly most fluid in the minds of youth. The idea of visualizing imagined worlds is often the first step in an artistic or scientific process. The labors of both fields rely heavily on interpretation of the natural world; observation, interpretation and rendering nature. In [...]
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