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Be a Scientist! Curriculum
Iridescent delivers one, five-week family science workshop (FSW) to each of its eight partner schools in Los Angeles every Spring. Iridescent-Los Angeles continued its collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, who acted as a host site. Iridescent-New York offered its annual FSW at the New York Hall of Science with participants from two schools.
Spring 2013 Courses
We had a total of 275 children and 197 parents participate in our FSWs.
Topics and elementary schools include:
- Norwood: Medieval Engineering
- 32nd Street: The Life of Water
- Vermont Avenue: Green Room: Engineering Musical Instruments
- Frank Del Olmo/National History Museum: Turning Dinosaurs into Birds
- Betty Plasencia: Build Big!
- Synergy Charter: Engineering of Action Sports
- Quincy Jones: Submarines – The Navy Ninjas
- Western Avenue: Constructing a Man Made World
- New York City: Electrical Engineering through Sustainable Design
Spring 2012 Courses
We had a total of 510 participants, 449 from Los Angeles and 61 participants from New York City. Topics and elementary schools include:
- Norwood: Flight Aerodynamics
- 32nd Street: Fluid Dynamics
- Vermont Avenue: Nanotechnology
- Frank Del Olmo: Biomechanics of Dinosaurs
- Betty Plasencia: Space Travel
- Synergy Charter: Underwater Engineering
- Quincy Jones: Racecar Engineering
- Western Avenue/National History Museum: Biomechanics of Dinosaurs
- New York City: Electrical Engineering through Sustainable Design
FALL 2011 COURSES
In Fall 2011, we ran one, five-week family science workshop (FSW) for each of our eight partner schools in Los Angeles. Seven of the programs were run at the schools, while one was run at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (NHM). NHM served as a school- host site and content partner with the Biomechanics of Dinosaurs course. We had a total of 863 participants.
Schools and topics included:
- Norwood: Optics
- 32nd Street: Nanotechnology– Video: How to build a nanomicroscope; How to build a catapult
- Vermont Avenue: Aerodynamics– Video: How to build a bird
- Frank Del Olmo: Renewable Energy– Video: How to make an insulator
- Betty Plasencia: Robotics– Video: How to build a robot
- Synergy Charter/Natural History Museum: Biomechanics of Dinosaurs
- Quincy Jones: Cardiovascular Mechanics– Video: How to build an electric circuit
- Western Avenue: Cardiovascular Mechanics– Video: How to build an electric circuit
SPRING 2011 COURSES
Schools and topics included:
- Norwood: Transportation
- 32nd Street: Amusement Parks
- Frank Del Olmo: Physics of Sailing
- Synergy Charter: Space Travel
- Western Ave: Automotive Engineering