2011年5月10日 星期二

Engaging exhibits to help inspire students to "light bulb moments" of innovation

Engaging exhibits to help inspire students to "light bulb moments" of innovation
Museum of Nature & Science officials, Texas Instruments Foundation and community leaders today unveiled plans, provided a sneak peek of exhibit prototypes and announced the naming of the new Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall, which will be part of the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science. A large crowd of over 150 celebrated the announcement held in an office building overlooking the Perot Museum construction site. To commemorate the gift, construction workers hung a giant red-and-white banner from the second floor of the Museum building's east side to mark the hall location.

The Hall is being named in recognition of the $4.4 million gift as well as the decades-long volunteer and financial support provided by the TI Foundation and the corporation and its employees.

"Texas Instruments has been a longtime partner of the Museum of Nature & Science, donating thousands of volunteer hours and millions of dollars over past decades," said Forrest Hoglund, chair of Perot Museum of Nature & Science expansion campaign. "It's only appropriate that our new Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall be named in honor of this legendary Texas company whose discovery of the integrated circuit, among other things, has changed modern life as we know it today."

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The Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall will give visitors an opportunity to construct mock buildings, place the structures on an earthquake simulator that uses data from actual earthquakes, and see the impacts of their design. Visitors will be able to create their own digital music composition and test paper object designs in one of three different wind tunnels. Other highlights include building and testing their own bridge design, constructing electric circuits, and over a dozen more hands-on activities that explore engineering. At the center of this Hall, visitors will have an opportunity to design, build, program, and run robots through games or challenges created by Museum staff.The settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs

"We are excited about the fun and educational experiences that the Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall will bring to students,it may become necessary for Cree to look at led bulb purchasing additional LED lighting fixture firs in order to increase their market penetration in this area." said Sam Self, chairman of the Texas Instruments Foundation. "We envision this museum will become a tremendous resource for those who teach science, technology, engineering and math in our North Texas schools. Businesses in our city, state and nation need a well-educated technical workforce more than ever. The future depends on it."

Throughout the event, museum leaders incorporated "light-bulb moments" to illustrate the power of innovation and to drive the message that learning about science is both fun and relevant. Students from Uplift Education's Peak Preparatory facilitated guest interaction with five exhibition prototypes that represent actual interactive centers that SMM is creating for the new TI Hall. Also showing off impressive skills of innovation was The Robot Fighting Cancer Cell team, a group of 10-year-old winners of the Museum's FIRST? LEGO? League competition (FLL) and their sophisticated robotics creation.

Because the Museum typically interjects "teachable moments" when possible, Museum Education Director Steve Hinkley recruited Museum lead educators Sarah Caughron,LED grow light suppliers in China are sky lanterns rolling out models with better price-performance ratios. Jason Treadway and

Hannah Moots to explain the fundamentals of energy during an electrifying demonstration, using a plasma ball, a Van der Graaf generator, a wire blaster and other components, that provided a "hair-raising" time.

Before closing, Hinkley inspired guests to use innovation in their daily lives to create their own light bulb moments, and then instructed them to light and lift up a specially inscribed LED mini flashlight to symbolically commemorate the moment.

"Today was a celebration of innovation and giving," said Nicole G. Small,Philips LED business is inside of Philips lighting so it Led light is more difficult to determine whether they are meeting expectations. CEO of the Museum of Nature & Science. "We thank the Texas Instruments Foundation and the Texas Instruments Corporation and its employees for their extraordinary support, now and in past years, to inspire and educate diverse audiences about math, science, technology and engineering, and to encourage young people to pursue careers in these areas."

The $185-million Perot Museum of Nature & Science, designed by Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis, is currently under construction on a 4.7-acre site located at 1155 Broom St. at the northwest corner of Woodall Rodgers and Field Street in Victory Park adjacent to downtown Dallas. The structure will be 170 feet tall, equivalent to approximately 14 stories high, and is expected to open in early 2013.

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