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this fall Nova is making more stuff in a
new four-part series premiering in
October on PBS levitating trains Ultra
fast sailboats bomb sniffing plants
swarms of flying robots what will the
stuff of the future be made of New York
Times technology correspondent and
best-selling author David POG returns to
guide viewers through stories of
cuttingedge engineering Solutions and
new materials that are shaping our
future by making stuff faster colder
safer and
Wilder beyond the broadcast Nova's
Education team is kicking off an
Outreach campaign to bring opportunities
for children ages 12 and up to play
design create build and make stuff at 75
sites
nationally so who should consider being
a making stuff Outreach site are you a
museum or a science center with a maker
space looking for programming ideas and
materials perhaps you're a community
hacker space and are interested in
engaging younger audiences maybe a
library or university Department looking
for outreach opportunities in
engineering and Material Science if any
of these sound like you then we hope you
will consider joining The Making Stuff
Outreach
Community 75 applicants will be selected
to be an official making stuff Outreach
site each of these sites will receive a
collection of of maker style projects
containing all the activities and design
challenges you need to get started a
project box of physical materials needed
to facilitate the projects and
promotional materials including a banner
t-shirt tattoos and more so what does a
site have to do official making stuff
Outreach sites are required to offer
making stuff programming within the time
frame of January through March 2014
think engine Year's week or Nano days
display the making stuff Banner during
that time period have at least one
representative of your site join and
participate in our making stuff Outreach
community on Google+ preferably those
who are facilitating the programs and
finally participate in our evaluation
upon the completion of the
project okay okay so we had you at hello
if you are interested in applying to
become a making stuff Outreach site all
you have to do is fill out our online
application form at the URL on the
screen by September 27th we will notify
you of your application status by early
October completing the application does
not mean that you have been accepted as
an Outreach site nor does it require
that you accept if you are chosen as a
site major funding for making stuff is
provided by the National Science
Foundation additional funding is
provided by the US Department of
Energy's office of science to find out
more ways to get involved with making
stuff check out Nova's making stuff
Outreach page and we look forward to
making stuff with
you