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| The energy team and our new exhibit! |
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| EnergyNet rain garden. |
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| House with a rain barrel. |
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| EnergyNet cake! |
Showing posts with label Exhibit Opening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibit Opening. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Spring 2014: Exhibit Opening!!
Today was the opening for the Energy Net exhibit at the Carnegie Museum! Our exhibit is called, "Water Wise: Give Rain a Home." The exhibit explains ways to soak up and slow down polluted runoff.
The exhibit includes a diorama of a ran garden, complete with native plants.
We also had a house with a rain barrel attached to the gutter that stores rain water.
At the end of the day, we celebrated our amazing work with a delicious cake decorated to look like our exhibit! Great work everyone!!!!
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Last Day! Putting the Exhibit Together
We did a lot of organizing and shifting of materials in order to get ready for the exhibit that opens on Sunday (April 13, by the way!)
The students took all of the materials up to the exhibit space and putt all of the big parts together. The only things we have left are a few signs and the big opening!
The students also participated in some experiments and then decided on their favorite so we could have it set up for opening day.
Check out what we have so far but come see the final product on Sunday!
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| The rain garden group with their final product! |
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| A teen in the playhouse, demonstrating what the kids will do. |
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| Transporting some materials. |
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| Cameron doing experiments with students. |
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| Kaleen and Nadin hanging up some signs. |
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Pollution Solutions Exhibit Opening Today!
Today is the opening day for Energy Net's Pollution Solutions exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History! The teens will be on hand to show off their exhibit to family and friends from 1-4 pm.
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| The Energy Net Crew. |
The teens will walk visitors through their two activities; Water Flows and Goes and Turn the Grey to Green.
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| The exhibit space |
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| Sustainable city game. |
Saturday, August 31, 2013
EXHIBIT OPENING DAY
The Energy-Net Summer Session comes to a close with the opening of the team's new exhibit,
"The Energy Water Nexus: Watt About It?"
Friday, May 17, 2013
Make Choices Market: Exhibit Opening !
Our exhibit that we had been working very had on opened at the museum on April 20th! We spent the morning setting all of our items up for the exhibit before it officially opened at noon.
With our exhibit, we wanted to show museum visitors the energy involved in bringing the food they typically eat to their table. To do this we set our space up like a cafeteria where visitors could pick their meal.
When visitors entered the exhibit, they picked up a tray and walked through the line and picked up cards with pictures of food items on them to chose their "meal". Once they had their meal, they could sit down at one of our tables and look at their choices. On the back of the cards were graphs showing how healthy their food choices were and how much processing was done to the food. There was also a chart on the table comparing all of the food choices so visitors could see how their choices rated amongst the others. While talking with visitors, we explained a food that was more heavily processed required more energy to make than one that was less processed. We had a chart the traced the energy used in food from the time it was grown on the farm until the time it reached your dining table. Some of the food choices, such as an apple, only went through some of the process depicted on the chart. However, a rice crispy treat had to go through the entire process depicted on the chart and required more energy than the apple.
After visitors discovered some of the energy behind their meals, they could take one of our to-go menus with them. On these menus were ideas for more sustainable eating tips and local farmers markets to buy fresh produce. Websites for local environmental organizations were also included.
Because this was our very first run at an exhibit, we were very interested in visitor feedback! We created a feedback board where visitors could post their thoughts. In general, our exhibit was well recepted. The best feedback, we thought, were the comments about how nice everyone was! WE had a great time showcasing all of our hard work to family, friends, and museum patrons. Stay tuned for some changes we will make to the exhibit based on the feedback we received. If you happen to be in the Pittsburgh area, come check out Make Choices Market!
The entire album of photos from our exhibit opening can be viewed here
With our exhibit, we wanted to show museum visitors the energy involved in bringing the food they typically eat to their table. To do this we set our space up like a cafeteria where visitors could pick their meal.
When visitors entered the exhibit, they picked up a tray and walked through the line and picked up cards with pictures of food items on them to chose their "meal". Once they had their meal, they could sit down at one of our tables and look at their choices. On the back of the cards were graphs showing how healthy their food choices were and how much processing was done to the food. There was also a chart on the table comparing all of the food choices so visitors could see how their choices rated amongst the others. While talking with visitors, we explained a food that was more heavily processed required more energy to make than one that was less processed. We had a chart the traced the energy used in food from the time it was grown on the farm until the time it reached your dining table. Some of the food choices, such as an apple, only went through some of the process depicted on the chart. However, a rice crispy treat had to go through the entire process depicted on the chart and required more energy than the apple.
After visitors discovered some of the energy behind their meals, they could take one of our to-go menus with them. On these menus were ideas for more sustainable eating tips and local farmers markets to buy fresh produce. Websites for local environmental organizations were also included.
Because this was our very first run at an exhibit, we were very interested in visitor feedback! We created a feedback board where visitors could post their thoughts. In general, our exhibit was well recepted. The best feedback, we thought, were the comments about how nice everyone was! WE had a great time showcasing all of our hard work to family, friends, and museum patrons. Stay tuned for some changes we will make to the exhibit based on the feedback we received. If you happen to be in the Pittsburgh area, come check out Make Choices Market!
The entire album of photos from our exhibit opening can be viewed here
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