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Final Presentation by #scienceFTW

Ruth Sherman is a new intern at the AMNH, from NYU’s Program in Digital Media Design for Learning. She assisted in the last month of programming for #scienceFTW program and graciously offered to write up the exciting final program session, … Continue reading

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The 3rd Month of #scienceFTW: Pterosaurs!

When I last posted about our first two months #scienceFTW (October and November) I broke it down by session. Now I will shift our focus to the discrete monthly projects, with December focusing on the exciting development of a card … Continue reading

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The 3rd Month of #scienceFTW: Pterosaurs!

When I last posted about our first two months #scienceFTW (October and November) I broke it down by session. Now I will shift our focus to the discrete monthly projects, with December focusing on the exciting development of a card … Continue reading

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The 2nd Month of #scienceFTW: Bones, Stars, Scat, & Biodiversity

When I last posted about our first month of #scienceFTW, our new science card game program led by Julia Zichello (Manager of AMNH’s Sackler Educational Laboratory), Nick Fortugno (Co-Founder/CCO of Playmatics), with support from J. Shepard Ramsay (NYU intern extraordinaire), … Continue reading

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The 1st Month of #scienceFTW: Parasites & Koi Koi

This month we launched a new program, #scienceFTW, in which teenagers are learning all about science through science-based card games and will eventually co-develop two different Pokemon-style card games. (photos from the month can be seen here) The first session … Continue reading

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#scienceFTW Watch Us Play #2: Bone Wars

Today we held the second of 20 sessions in our new #scienceFTW program. I will occasionally post here about the program and often post “homework” for the participants, as with this post (feel free to follow along at home): In … Continue reading

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#scienceFTW Watch Us Play #1: Koi Koi

Yesterday we held the first of 20 sessions in our new #scienceFTW program. I will occasionally post here about the program, share images like the one below, and often post “homework” for the participants, as with this post (feel free … Continue reading

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Launch of #scienceFTW: Building Card Games at The American Museum of Natural History

Today I am delighted to launch not just the new Minecraft@Museum program but also the super-awesome #scienceFTW: Building Card Games program. In #scienceFTW youth will collaborate with game designers and Museum staff to build two new games about pterosaurs and … Continue reading

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How I Helped Turn Dreams Into Reality at AMNH

In my almost six years at the Museum, from fall of 2012 until now, I have held the same title, but sat at five desks in four offices and reported to three supervisors in three different departments. As you might … Continue reading

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Game Night Gone Wild @AMNH

Do games belong in museums? Well, the 500 attendees at last night’s sold out event – Game Night Gone Wild – answered with their feet: “Hell, yes! (and pass the dice…)” This is not the first time the Museum has … Continue reading

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