By Adele Maurier Design Coordinator A lot of different scenarios can play out before an exhibit arrives at SEE for you to enjoy. Some of our exhibits are built on site in the SEE workshop, other exhibits are purchased from other science centers and others are custom built for us by exhibit design firms. But…
Camp Summer Science
Becky Mayhew Operations & Programs Manager info@see-sciencecenter.org Summer is coming faster than we realize and that means I am getting ready for summer camp here at the SEE Science Center! Although it ranks right up there as two of my most tiring weeks of the year, they are also a contenders for my two favorite…
SEE Celebrates
By Douglas Heuser Executive Director This past October, one of our young employees agreed to speak at the SEE Celebrates event held at the home of our founder, Dean Kamen. She is studying to be an archaeologist and spoke about how SEE inspired her love of science. She has been coming to SEE since she…
The Giving Season
By Peter Gustafson The SEE Science Center has numerous partners in the Greater Manchester community and as we look to them for support of our programs and events, they look to us for support as well. We have given family memberships as gifts to help support the fundraising efforts of such groups as the Manchester…
Introducing Manchester’s first Science Café: Science on Tap
By: Chad Campbell, Client Development Associate I love the concept of Science on Tap, Manchester’s new Science Café, for a few reasons; science, beer, and bar food. I’m also a huge fan of how Manchester organizations are helping lead the charge with promoting science for everyone (from K-12 programs at The SEE Science Center, college…
New York City Marathon
Hello SEE Science Center Community, The staff at SEE asked me to share my NYC marathon experience. I’m Craig and have been on the SEE Science Center Board of Directors for a decade. There is a lot of science surrounding marathon running, but rather than diving into that, I’ll focus on the events of the…
Why Science on Tap?
The SEE Science Center and science centers in general want to encourage engaging, lifelong informal science learning. Science Cafés, with their casual atmosphere in the community and open dialog format, fit naturally with this goal. (And we love to head out to a bar and discuss science as much as anybody.) So SEE decided to…
Guest Blog by SEE volunteer Richard Maurier
There’s a lot of behind the scenes work needed to keep exhibit breakdowns at bay. When I see the great joy children get out of a fun learning experience it motivates me to help keep the exhibits up and running. Whenever I tackle a breakdown I always look to find the cause as well as…
SEE Science Center Annual September Cleaning
SEE is closed….what? That’s disappointing I know. But why is SEE closed every year around the same time? Well it’s time to clean things up, fix anything that may be broken or sometimes even add something new. With thousands of families and hundreds of school groups visiting SEE every year things can get a little…
Camp Summer Science Week One comes to an end…
By Becky Mayhew Education & Program Manager Another busy, hands-on, exhausting, science filled camp week has come to an end. Last week was filled with great activities – dismantling a variety of electronic items, exploring flight and air pressure, creating toys that demonstrated scientific principles – and even more great memories. One camper came to…