The digital publication of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)
Dimensions, March/April 2019—The Power of Small
IN THIS ISSUE
March/April 2019
It’s generally easy to notice big things, but it’s the small things that often have a profound effect on our lives. As best-selling author Mary Roach points out in the Q&A interview, the things she couldn’t see while traveling recently in India—bacteria and viruses—were much more likely to take her down than the massive elephants she was repeatedly warned about.
In this issue, we take a moment to focus our attention on the smaller institutions or programs among us. Small, but mighty.
The following features focus on the positive power of small. These institutions or programs may have small budgets, small facilities, or no facilities at all, but they have all found ways to embrace—and even capitalize on—being small. From passionate science educators with a vision to start-up museums operating in non-traditional venues to a large museum deploying small trucks, the following features tell compelling stories of pluck, resourcefulness, and vision.
Features
Amazonian Ideas on a Small Budget, by Renata Moretti and Ennio Candotti
Science Circus Africa: Where Small Is Big, by Charlie Trautmann
Small Beginnings, Big Ambition: KID Museum, by Emma Sussman Starr
Small Is Fabulous, by Curt Gabrielson
Small Museums, Big Role: Powering the NISE Network, by Rae Ostman
Small on Wheels: Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Try It Truck, by Joanna Kauffmann
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
