space odyssey
10.17.14 volunteer update
http://spaceodyssey.dmns.org/
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Storytelling with Uniview
Trainings and Meetings
Space Science Lectures & Events
Volunteer Enrichment Committee (VEC) Events
Museum News and Lectures
space odyssey news
HELP NEEDED: OCTOBER 24th LOCKHEED MARTIN HOLIDAY PARTY
We are all set for this event, thanks so much to everyone for helping with this event!
HELP NEEDED: SPACE ODYSSEY SHARE FAIR ON NOVEMBER 10
Would you like to share what you know about a particular station or area in Space Odyssey? We could use your help. Please let me know if you'd like to facilitate something to help out this night. Event details are below under "Trainings."
LASER POINTERS IN SPACE ODYSSEY
Samantha has purchased more laser pointers, let the dancing in the streets commence! Thanks Sam!
URBAN ADVANTAGE SPECIAL SHOWS IN SPACE O SUNDAY
This Sunday is Urban Advantage Family Day and they have requested a special schedule in SO for the day:
AOS at 10:15 and 3, Superchill at 11:30 and 1:30 and Cruisin' the Cosmos at 12:30.
They will also have a bilingual staff or volunteer or student nearby to help translate/answer questions for our bilingual audiences on that day. For the AOS, they will hang out near the astronaut assistant.
ECLIPSE VIEWING NEXT WEEK 10.23.14
Next Thursday, 10/23, for the partial solar eclipse, we'll have the West doors open that afternoon so guests can view things as well as telescopes up on the Sky Terrace and a bunch of special solar glasses for guests to use to view the action. The eclipse runs from about 3:30, peaks at about 4:40 and ends at 5:45, though the Museum will be closing at its normal time that day. Thanks to all for helping out with this event!
For more info about this eclipse,
click here.
ROCK N ROLL MARATHON SUNDAY
If you're working this Sunday, please note that the Rock n Roll marathon is taking place and may impact your to commute to work. The full marathon course runs through the west side of City Park, and while we don't expect it to impact parking since the race won't be starting and ending here, trying to get across town from the west side will be a challenge. Please take a look at the website and plan accordingly, leaving yourself enough time for detours and traffic.
http://cdn.runrocknroll.competitor.com/files/2014/10/DEN_14_courseMap_CE1.pdf
SEND YOUR NAME TO MARS!
http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/orion-first-flight/
FINDING OUT ABOUT WEST ATRIUM EVENTS
If you're ever wondering what event(s) is happening in the West Atrium when those doors are closed, feel free to contact Subpost and ask them as they should have a list of events for the day.
PLANETARIUM ISSUES?
If you have an issue where guests seem to be waiting an overly long time for a planetarium show, know that the planetarium staff are purposely starting shows two minutes late to allow for latecomers. If you need to get a hold of the planetarium usher, feel free to call them at 6030. I've also posted this number in the 2003 storage room.
NEW SOS DATASETS
http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/list.php?category=All&type=&sort=DateAdded&order=DESC
AWESOME CASSINI PICS
http://news.discovery.com/space/the-solar-system/cassinis-10th-year-recent-saturn-mind-blowers-photos-140707.htm
COLORADO FIRST ROBOTICS SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
http://fll.coloradofirst.org/volunteer
SCFD COMMUNITY FREE DAYS
As part of the Museum's agreement to receive funds from SCFD, which account for a significant portion of the Museum's operating budget, the Museum offers "community free days" throughout the year to allow those who can't afford admission the privilege to visit DMNS. Below are the dates for the 2014 free days.
The Museum is offering 12 Community Free Days in 2014, made possible by the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District. For more information, click here.
·  Monday, October 27
·  Monday, December 1
storytelling with uniview
by Dr. Ka Chun Yu, PhD Curator of Space Science DMNS
You can read all of Ka Chun's previous columns on the Portal Training page under Storytelling with Uniview: http://spaceodyssey.dmns.org/mgg-training.aspx
NOTE: If you're having issues viewing this column in Firefox, try using Safari or Explorer as those seem to show the column in the best quality. I'm not sure about Chrome.
trainings and meetings
NEW SPACE ODYSSEY VOLUNTEER TRAINING
Monday October 20th, 6 PM to 8 PM
Galaxy Stage Space Odyssey
Food and drink provided
Please RSVP to Dave Blumenstock
This fun and enlightening training is hosted by Samantha Richards, our lead educator for space science, and Dave Cuomo, our assistant space science educator and yours truly, Dave Blumenstock. We'll be doing an overview of the exhibit and all the different tools you can use to teach space science to the public plus we'll go on a trip to "Mars" to give you a behind-the-scenes look at working on the Martian surface. This training is required for all new Space Odyssey volunteers. Please let me know if you can make it.
SCIENCE ON A SPHERE USER GROUP MEETING
Tuesday October 21
5:30 to 7:30
Galaxy Stage
Food and drink provided
RSVP to Dave Blumenstock
Here's the agenda for the meeting:
·  SoSCore Team update (add description)
·  NewSoS database
·  Search tips
·  Browsing theLibrary
·  Fewer "Load Playlists"
·  Web Links, how to report corrections
·  DynamicLayering
·  SoSdevelopment,curatorial, and testingprocess: Matt Brownell, Samantha Richards
·  Task Teammeeting schedules
·  See The People Bob Raynolds
·  Climate Change Ken Burke
·  Human MigrationMike Hitchcock
·  Evolution of Life & Mass Extinctions
·  Air Quality Oriole Hart
SPACE ODYSSEY SHARE FAIR
Monday November 10th, 6 PM to 8 PM
Space Odyssey
Food and drink provided
Please RSVP to Dave Blumenstock
These trainings are a great way to learn from each other and are a ton of fun. On this night, we ask volunteers to share what they know about different stations with the rest of the SO team. It's a great night to teach and learn. If you'd like to share your knowledge about the Oribits Table, Barany Chair, SOS, Meteorite Cart, Infrared area or any other exhibit, station or demonstration in the exhibit with other volunteers, we'd love to have you help out. So, please let me know if you'd like to teach something as well as if you'd like to attend. Thanks!
space science lectures & events
FISKE PLANETARIUM IN BOULDER HOSTS SOS EVENT
Wednesday October 22
5:30 PM
Event info can be found here:
https://fiske.colorado.edu/beta/events?id=67
Digital Earth: Human Migration and Modernization
Gates Planetarium
Thursday October 23
7 PM
Tickets: $8 member, $10 non-member
Where have we come from and where are we going? Using immersive global satellite images, geologist Bob Raynolds and space scientist Ka Chun Yu take you to the Rift Valley in East Africa. Our ancestors grew up here in lush lands, then left Africa and wandered widely, ending up concentrated by rivers, with major civilizations developing along the Nile, the Tigris, and the Indus rivers. Discuss how today we are once again concentrating, now along the "energy rivers," where we are urbanizing and developing into digital natives.
Image courtesy of NASA
60 Minutes in Space
Phipps IMAX Theater
Wednesday October 29
7 PM
FREE
Go "behind the stories" in space science using the best images and animation available to help understand new developments. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Please note that the program will be held in Phipps IMAX Theater. Please use the IMAX Evening entrance on the east side of the Museum.
The next 60 Minutes in Space will be on Wednesday, November 19 (one week early).
RESERVATION INFO
Volunteers have the opportunity to attend most After Hours programs priced at the $8 member/ $10 nonmember rate for free on a space-available basis! Volunteers always receive the member rate for all other Adult Programs. As of May 12, please call Guest Services at 303.370.6000 to make a reservation.
Guest Services is open daily, 9:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Admission to 60 Minutes in Space is free and is on a first come, first seated basis.
On the evening of the program, please enter through the same entrance as our guests and pick up your ticket from the will-call cashier. Thank you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm for Adult Programs!
volunteer enrichment committee
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Field Trip
Thursday, November 6, 2014
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Meet in the Volunteer Lounge at 8:15AM
Sign up sheets in the Lounge or email
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! REPEAT OF OUR AUGUST FIELD TRIP!
Come join us for a unique and interesting tour of the NOAA research, data collection, information dissemination and forecasting facility for the Earth's atmospheric and space environment in Boulder. We will go behind the scenes at NOAA with a knowledgeable individual. This will also include a tour of the National Weather Service, Space Weather Prediction Center and the Earth Systems Research Laboratories.
Please note: All participants will need a picture ID and any foreign
nationals must be cleared ahead of time.
This is a field trip that will require minimal exertion.
A field trip waiver form is required for this field trip!
You can download a waiver for this field trip from the Volunteer Portal:
http://volunteers.dmns.org/media/14057/vec_field_trip_noaa_2.pdf
Click here for more information about VEC events:
http://volunteers.dmns.org/events/
Or see the bulletin board in the Volunteer Lounge for more info.
museum news and events
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND
On Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19, we will be hosting the first of our three Corporate Member Days. There will be a "Corporate Member Lounge" in the VIP Room, and we will provide refreshments and family-friendly activities for corporate members. They will be able to take select snacks to IMAX or Planetarium, or enjoy them in VIP. There will be signs directing them to VIP and buttons for staff and volunteers to wear, identifying them as able to help especially with wayfinding to VIP. The next two corporate member day weekends will be November 15/16 and December 20/21.
This coming Sunday, October 19, the Museum will be hosting Urban Advantage Family Science Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event invites the 7th grade students participating in the Urban Advantage program and their families to explore the Museum and also participate in special activities that encourage them to think and act like scientists. We are hoping to have about 500 attendees. They will be entering through the school entrance and we will have signage placed around the building to direct them there. If there are folks that enter through the main entrance, please direct them to the Science Atrium for check in. They will likely have the orange section of their invite in hand. Anyone with this invitation should also be directed to the Science Atrium.
Also on Saturday, we'll have the "live bats" event happening in Ricketson during the day.
The Museum embraces opportunities todiversify our audiences by becoming increasingly inclusive, aware, and accountable to our community at large. As part of a Museum-wide effort,we will be hosting a LGBT Family Day on Sunday, November 2nd. We have partnered with The Center, a local organization that supports the Denver LGBT community, to plan a day of fun, family-friendly activities to extend a special welcome to this community.As with all community events, your welcoming spirit will be an important part of this day.
MUSEUM HOSTING LGBT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
The Museum LGBT project team has organized learning opportunities to help us meet the needs of this community. In particular, attendees of a training session will;
·  Gain insight into what every day experiences are like for LGBT families in a world that assumes everyone is heterosexual.
·  Get a better understanding of how LGBT families define themselves.
·  Learn more about how to create the best experience possible for LGBT Museum visitors.
·  Practice using new vocabulary in a safe and supportive environment.
·  Practice responding to situations that may arise in the Museum during LGBT Family Day.
To participate in a training experience, please join us either Sunday, October 26th 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. or Wednesday, October 29th, 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Both will be held at the Museum in Studios 102/103 on level 1 of the Morgridge Family Exploration Center.
About the trainer: Heather Crate is currently the Program Coordinator of Boulder County Public Health's OASOS program, a program that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and adults. She also works as a consultant with organizations looking to increase cultural responsiveness and inclusion in working with LGBTQ communities. She has over six years of experience working in and advocating for the LGBTQ community. She holds a Master's in Social Work degree.
For more information about LGBT Language and Terminology please visit the following pages on the DMNS Volunteer Portal:
·  Vocabulary List http://volunteers.dmns.org/media/14445/language_and_terminology.pdf
·  Making Everyday Conversations More Inclusive http://volunteers.dmns.org/media/14442/making_everyday_conversations_more_inclusive.pdf
Building deeper and more significant relationships within our community is critical to delivering on the Museum's mission and vision. We sincerely value your hard work and dedication to welcoming all visitors to the Museum. Thank you for volunteering and making the Museum a great place for everyone!
COOL NEW ADDITIONS OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM
There is now a beautiful totem pole on the South side of the Museum and the bear statue has been moved to the Southwest corner and all the fencing around the new landscaping on the South side has been dismantled. Along these lines, Kent Ullberg, the sculptor behind the lovely new mastodon sculpture on the Northwest side of the Museum will be featured in this program on PBS:http://s590918421.t.en25.com/e/es?s=590918421&e=36811&elq=811518fd0434498ea6c3c23970464659
CONSTRUCTION IN WEST ATRIUM NEXT WEEK
Beginning on Monday 13 October, level one of the Leprino Family Atrium (West Atrium) will be cordoned off for a construction and carpeting project. Access through the atrium will be provided during construction to Ricketson Auditorium, level one restrooms and level one elevators. Levels two and three of the atrium will be open as usual. The construction and carpet replacement are scheduled to be completed by Friday 24 October.
The construction project will remove the level one portions of rings that reflect the summer and winter solstice sunset positions. We will also reconfigure the stainless steel railing to fit underneath the stair to level two. The carpet will be replaced with new material. This construction will remove a potential point of injury where the rings have been bent into sharp angles and also provide additional circulation space for catered events in the area.