Schenectady Museum
 
Schenectady Museum Newsletter
   
July 2010
 
 
Our Mission: to inspire a sense of wonder about extraordinary scientific and technological developments: past, present, and future.
In This Issue
Museum Newsletter Goes Green
Invention Convention 2010
Museum Historic Films on Time Warner Cable
Volunteers Honored
Museum Gala: Starry, Starry Night Under the Parisian Sky
Recent Grants
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Program Profile
Just a Phase

 
 (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.
Schenectady Museum SciWorld Camp
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.
Science of Baseball

Science of Baseball
 with Tri-City ValleyCats
 
Saturday, August 21
11AM - 1:30PM
 
Little Wonders: Great Snakes

Little Wonders of Science:
 
Thursday & Saturday,  August 19 & 21 @ 10:30AM
Planetarium Shows
Schenectady Museum's Suits-Bueche Planetarium

Suits-Bueche Planetarium Shows Tues.-Fri, 2PM
 Sat., 1, 2 & 3PM
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
Invention Convention 2010
"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.
Schenectady Museum Archives
 
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.
Schenectady Museum Volunteers
 
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.
 
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.
Schenectady Museum 2010 Gala
 
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.  
Schenectady Museum Archives
 
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.