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We have limited space in the following week of our Summer SciWorld Camps:
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Program Profile |
(Grades 3-8) Explore the Moon with a hands-on activity designed to show students the Moon phases through a 28-day cycle. Taking group reservations now. Call 518.382.7890 x 224 for more information or to register. |
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A Schenectady Museum SciWorld Summer Camper looks through the high-powered telescope on a field trip to Union College's Observatory as part of SciWorld Camp: Exploring the Milky Way, July 6-9. |
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Science of Baseball
with Tri-City ValleyCats
Saturday, August 21
11AM - 1:30PM
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Little Wonders of Science:
Thursday & Saturday, August 19 & 21 @ 10:30AM |
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Museum Newsletter Goes Green
Welcome to the Museum's new email newsletter. Our move to this format allows us to save over $7,000 annually in design, printing, and mailing costs, in addition to reducing our use of paper and fuel. The new format also allows us to communicate once a month, three times more frequently than we issued the print version. |
Invention Convention 2010
2010 Invention Convention Finalists |
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science."
R. W. Emerson
Invention Convention is an annual program through which we inspire wonder and nurture the seed of science while preparing youth to meet the complex challenges of tomorrow. A reception and awards ceremony for Invention Convention 2010 was held May 27 at the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium. 100 student inventors were recognized as regional semi-finalists, and 25 students were announced as state finalists from more than 1,400 student submissions.
Invention Convention 2010 partners:
Innovator - GE Volunteers; Inventors - MVP Healthcare, Time Warner Cable; Problem Solvers - Capital Region Living Magazine, First Niagara Bank - Mentoring Matters, M&T Bank; Tinkerers - Berkshire Bank, Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association, 1st Playable Productions LLC, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., Hoffman Warnick LLC, New York State United Teachers, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation, Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP. |
Museum Historic Films on Time Warner Cable
A GE Engineer works with an experimental talking motion picture projector. |
Time Warner Cable viewers can now use the new On Demand feature to watch old films from the Schenectady Museum's Archives. These films celebrate the contributions of General Electric and other Capital Region companies. Fourteen historic films dating from 1915 to 1961 are now available for viewing locally on Time Warner Cable 1009 Local On Demand.
The films are a selection of some of the most historically significant movies from the Schenectady Museum's collection of over 1,000 motion picture films. The films, which date back as far as 1915, document the history of GE and the electrical industry. The films were designed as educational movies, teaching the basics of electricity or atomic power, or as promotional advertising films. Read more. |
Volunteers Honored
Schenectady Museum volunteers at a brunch reception at the Museum in June. |
The Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium honored its volunteers with a reception June 14 at the Museum. Museum volunteers provide thousands of hours of service throughout the year, some providing critical assistance weekly in the Museum's Archives, Education, Development or other departments, and others volunteering at Museum special events like Invention Convention and ZOOM Into Science. Museum volunteers represent a wide variety of ages and backgrounds - from area high school students to retired scientists.
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Museum Gala: Starry, Starry Night Under the Parisian Sky
Executive Director Kerry Orlyk, Board Co-Presidents Denise Gonick and Jane Golub at the Museum's Gala in May. |
The annual gala to benefit the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium was held May 14 at the Museum. Everyone enjoyed an evening of amazing food by Mansion Catering, music by Sonny & Perley, and a great silent auction. Thank you to Gala Chairwoman Jane Golub and her committee for an amazing event which raised nearly $40,000 for the Museum.
2010 Gala Sponsors:
Eiffel Tower: Fenimore Asset Management, Inc., Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, LLP, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation; Arc de Triomphe: DeCrescente Distributing Co., GreenbergTraurig, Wells Fargo Advisors; Champs Elysees: The Bonadio Group, Capital Bauer, First Niagara Benefits Consulting, Fortitech, Keybank, Langan Motor Car, NBT Bank; Louvre: NY Oncology Hematology, Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP; Event Supporters: Adriondack Beverages, CapitalCare Medical Group, LLC; Media Sponor: Times Union, Catering Sponsor, Mansion Catering. |
Recent Grants
The Museum will use a $10K Center for History of Physics grant to preserve archival photos like this one of Irving Langmuir holding a pliotron tube, c. 1920. |
Special thanks to the following for their generous support:
The Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics has awarded a grant for $9,920.76 to the Schenectady Museum for use in preserving archival photographs.
The IEEE Life Members Committee has awarded a grant for $13,133 to the Schenectady Museum for use in preserving a significant collection of 16mm films from the General Electric Corporation. Read more.
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region's Marjorie Rockwell Fund for the Disabled has awarded a grant for $550 to the Schenectady Museum to increase accessibility to the Museum's FETCH! Lab by wheelchair bound and temporarily disabled students.
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