I'm happy to announce that the Cal Academy will be participating in an exciting session at the 2014 Association of Science and Technology Centers annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina this October. We are calling it, "Youth-proof Your Program!" How good do you think your digital youth program at your museum or science center is? …
One of my favorite finds at the Walt Disney Family Museum yesterday was this flow chart of a Disney animated film, created in 1943 as part of an employee handbook for their Burbank studios. I love how it details the relationships among all the of the hundreds of people involved in a film production, from …
Today I finally got a chance to spend some quality time at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Situated in a stately building that was originally an army barracks in the Presidio, the Disney Family Museum is dedicated to the life and legacy of Walt Disney. As a long-time Disneypark nerd — I’ve …
In my department, we just found out that we carry these adorable mini-plushie tardigrades (water bears) in our store. A bunch of us immediately ran down and bought out the sets that were on display, which confused the store clerks. "We've been carrying these for months," one of them explained. Tardigrades are of course much, …
Here's the second in a series of three videos created by teens in the 2014 Science in Action Summer Intensive at the California Academy of Sciences. This one is targeted straight for all the dog lovers out there. So cute and informative! Created by Bay Area teens Ginger Chen, Marcus Weiss and Chloe David.
Attention all educators, artists, scientist, facilitators, and otherwise generally awesome people. The California Academy of Sciences’ Youth Programs is looking for the perfect person to help lead our Teen Advocates for Science Communication (affectionately known as the TASC Force) program as the new Assistant Manager. What is the TASC Force? Well, TASC is one of …
Sophia is a promising young person who I had the pleasure of working with last summer in our "Science in Action" science filmmaking program. She had such a blast learning video production that she asked if there were opportunities for her to keep doing it at the Academy. This resulted in our visualization studio …
Tonight was the second annual "Teen Science Night" at the California Academy of Sciences, what we believe is the largest teen-led celebration of science in a museum in the country. We welcomed more than 1,000 young people to take over the museum for the night, doing cool science demos, showing off awesome tech toys, dancing …
Here is the first of three awesome videos created by a group of teens who participated in the California Academy of Sciences' "Science in Action Summer Intensive" this July. This video "Collections: A Window Into the Past" was created over just a couple of weeks by Kirby, Toby, Aimee and Roman. Enjoy! More about the …
I'm excited to share the news that the California Academy of Sciences will be hosting the second annual Teen Science Night on Friday, August 15th 2014, for Bay Area teens to engage with the fascinating world of science. Teens (13-18 years old) are invited to join us from 6:30-9:00pm at the Academy in Golden Gate …