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Participants
from 15 countries attended a June 2004 RAP about mobile
exhibits hosted by Technopolis, the Flemish Science
Center, Belgium
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ASTC RAPs (Roundtables for Advancing
the Professions) were held at five science centers in 2004.
February 27–28
IT, the next generation
Orlando Science Center, Orlando, Florida
Increasingly, science centers and museums count on information
technology (IT) to do everything from back-office support to database
mining. Discussion topics at this RAP included open-source software,
e-commerce, ticketing, Linux operating systems, interactive kiosks,
wireless networks, and other uses of IT on the exhibit floor.
Contact: Brian Tonner, CEO, 407/514-2012
March 12–13
Designing and sustaining a fee-based afterschool program
Exploris, Raleigh, North Carolina
RAP participants observed Exploris’s afterschool program
for middle school students and discussed budgets, staffing, programming
for different age groups, food, marketing, and community involvement.
Contact: Robin White, Afterschool Coordinator,
919/857-1044; and Jamilyn Cole, Camp Experiences
Coordinator, 919/857-1062
June 1–2
Science on the move:
mobile exhibit projects (MEPs)
Technopolis, the Flemish Science Center, Mechelen, Belgium
This first European RAP, co-sponsored by ECSITE, focused on outreach
that uses easy-to-transport exhibits carried in science trucks,
science vans, science buses, and even science boats. Participants
shared experiences with launching an MEP, staffing and budgets,
and marketing and target groups, and traded ideas about benefits
of MEPs, evaluations, and what makes for a successful project.
Contact: Patricia Verheyden, Manager of Exhibits
June 10–11
Exhibits and expansion in the 21st century
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey
How do new philosophies of management, technology, and mission
influence the way we think about exhibits and change our process
for planning facility expansions? Participants discussed the new
interplay of exhibit development, design, and implementation with
other expansion efforts, such as architecture, construction, infrastructure,
facility closures, education, marketing, and fund-raising. Session
leaders from three institutions in the New Jersey/New York City
area, each at a different phase in the expansion process, shared
recent events and lessons.
Contact: Wayne LaBar, Vice President, Exhibitions
and Theaters, 201/451-0006 x347
October 1–2
Successful summer camp experiences
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York
RMSC’s summer camp programs have not only served the community
well, but been a reliable revenue source. Topics of this RAP included
institutional buy-in, programming, staff recruitment, marketing,
and assessment. Participants shared stories, photographs, marketing
materials, and schedules.
Contact: Jennifer Cellura, Camp Director, (585)271-4552
x388
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