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…
Lets talk events with the Social Media Intern at SEE!
By Leah Federico, Social Media Intern As Social Media Intern at the SEE Science Center, I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with such inspiring individuals. On my journey so far, I have been to a couple of events in and around the Manchester Area. These events not only brought together a community, but…
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…
Up and Running
By Peter Gustafson Development Coordinator One of the challenges (and joys) of providing a hands-on science center is keeping the exhibits up and running. Our robotic arm (produced by the MRISAR Institute), a very popular exhibit here at SEE, recently needed some attention and it turned out to be a re-occurring problem related to the…