Oh Wow! Trumbull County ESC is doing something new -- join us for a unique learning opportunity. They’ve partnered with OH WOW!, Defined STEM, and NASA to provide teachers with a morning full of hands-on STEM activities. Teachers will leave with resources to bring STEM to life in the classroom. The day will be packed with tools and experiences to help you enhance your 21st Century skills and make literacy connections. Participants will receive four professional development contact hours.
For more information on this conference, please visit TCESC's Adventures in STEM page. You can download the flyer here, and the registration form here.
Last week we had our first Member Monday, and as part of that, we surveyed members to see what perks that would most enjoy. We are accepting responses until Friday, January 27, but here are the results as they currently stand.
1. What time of day would you and your family visit OH WOW! on a Monday? (Multiple answers allowed.)
16.7% visit mornings (10-12)
44.4% visit afternoon (12-4)
44.4% visit evenings (4-6)
2. What sort of perk best suits your lifestyle and needs as an OH WOW! member? (Multiple answers allowed.)
50% discounts on guest admissions
33.3% members-only events
5.6% discounts on gift memberships
50% membership renewal benefits
16.7% exclusive previews of new exhibits
5.6% inside e-newsletter
5.6% other
3. What interests or hobbies do you have that you would like to see represented at OH WOW! through member-only STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs?
science experiment programming
paleontology
geology
electrical theory
photography
trains
food science
automobiles
trains
math-related activities
biology
architecture
Lego events
engineering (bridge building and capacity loading)
genetics
human physiology
If you as a member want your say in shaping what membership means at OH WOW!, click this link to complete our short five-question survey. If you don’t have your membership card handy, email info@ohwowkids.org or call 330-744-5914 and we can look up your membership number in our database.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Today is our very first Member Monday here at OH WOW! Member
Monday is a fortnightly event here, and as the name might
indicate, it is a day when members can expect special treatment. What
kind of treatment? That's what we want you to tell us! What sort of
special perk should be available to members - and members only - on
Member Mondays?
Click this link to answer five short questions to tell us what you think. You have a unique opportunity to define what membership means at OH WOW!
by Caitlin Driscoll, Education Coordinator
Parents everywhere know that something flushed does not simply vanish forever. In some ways, that’s good, because maybe you needed that cell phone or plastic dinosaur or diamond engagement ring back. However, with some items, out of sight means out of mind… until it creates a problem.
Plumbers and public health officials state that only two items should go down a toilet: human waste and toilet paper. Toilets and related sewage systems have been designed to specifically to handle these things. Unfortunately, there are many items that wind up down drains and pipes that have no business being there. Share your experience by emailing info@ohwowkids.org , or on Facebook or Twitter.
Early in November, my sister flushed the downstairs toilet, and water bubbled up from the drain in the kitchen sink. When she tried to the do dishes, the toilet overfilled and overflowed. Water began seeping into the basement, and that’s when she called in the calvary, and by “calvary” I mean a professional with an auger.
I cheerfully assisted the pro as he accessed the main pipe through the kitchen sink, flushing toilets and mopping up spills as needed. He happily shared interesting details about water and plumbing. For example, water will come out at the lowest elevation since it likes to flow down. So when our toilet overflowed, it was because there was no place lower that the water could get out. (At OH WOW, our overflow occurred on the 1st floor: can you think of why?)
Recently we’ve experienced a similar issue at OH WOW! Like at my home, we first noticed the issue because of water coming up and out of our floor drains - somewhere it shouldn’t. The issue became so serious that we had to stop using our restrooms, causing us to close to the public until we resolved the issue.
In light of this, we’re going to ask our guests to follow a New Year’s resolution: Please only flush human waste and toilet paper. Dispose of all other items like baby wipes, diapers, bandages, tissues, feminine hygiene products, paper towels, etc., via the trash can. If you have any other ideas or suggestions, please email me at info@ohwowkids.org, or post on our Facebook or Twitter.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, OH WOW! will be closed the evening of December 31, 2011. We will be closed January 1, 2012, for the New Year holiday. For our status on January 2, 2012, please check our Facebook page, which will be kept updated by our social media staffer.
UPDATE: We are closed January 2, 2012.
Our New Year's resolution here at OH WOW! is to get kids interested in STEM, anywhere and everywhere. To this end, Madonna Chism Pinkard of WFMJ's Community Connection is giving over a few minutes of her Sunday program to OH WOW! Moments.
What is an OH WOW! Moment? An OH WOW! Moment is an educational epiphany. Here at OH WOW!, kids and grownups can explore our hands-on, interactive exhibits to reach some of those moments. But you can have your own OH WOW! Moments at home, and OH WOW! and Community Connection are going to show you how.
Community Connection airs 7:00a.m. Sundays on 21 WFMJ. Our first OH WOW! Moment debuts this upcoming Sunday, January 1, 2012.
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