[Thursday] 2019 planning

[Craig Moody]

Hi Randy,


A nice color brochure of the New England Wireless & Steam Museum could be
created and made available to schools, teachers, administrators (and the
community) showing how we are able to address the Common Core State
Standards. With this connection to education made clear in print,
administrators will be more inclined to authorize field trips to the museum
for their students.


Chris and Brown had been discussing the idea of creating a workbench area
in the side room of the Wireless building that would be beneficial not only
to the volunteer crew but also to small visiting groups for hands-on
demonstrations about the basics of electromagnetism and how they relate to
telegraphy and radio.  I believe this would be very much worth the effort
to build.


Talk to you soon,

Craig





On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:55 PM Randall Snow via Thursday <
thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Happy 2019!  I hope everyone had a great Christmas and all and are eager
> to dive into a new year!
>
> I was able to speak with a few people at the museum today but wanted to
> reach out to the entire group to try and get some planning underway for the
> upcoming year. The winter months, when your feet are likely to freeze to
> the floor of the wireless building, seem like a great time to actually get
> some plans and goals in place for the upcoming year.  I hope I can bring
> some organization to that effort.  Goals seem a lot easier to achieve if we
> all know what they are!
>
> Tops on my priority list for the year are to get the wheels turning toward
> our educational aspirations.  The museum was founded partially to serve an
> educational purpose, and I would say we're not fulfilling that to any
> appreciable extent.  It's also my feeling that by engaging with school-age
> children we can help build a new audience in a new generation, and
> hopefully interest them in tangible things they might not otherwise ever be
> exposed to.  I'm hoping to work with the educators we had come by a couple
> of years ago and others to start building an outline of exactly what we
> need to have in place to receive school groups.  We can then start filling
> in those pieces in the coming years.
>
> Dave Caldwell had a great idea today that will serve as an excellent
> foundation or stepping stone along this educational road.  With out
> existing connection to the local boy scouts, we could develop some
> educational modules that would help them earn merit badges and continue to
> engage them, and other troops, with the museum further.  The exercise of
> building these modules will be be great practice for developing similar
> modules for educational groups and complying with current standards.
>
> Beyond this of course there are the ongoing projects, the requisite
> maintenance, and lots of ideas that we've all been discussing.  If you
> could all send me your lists of projects or goals you each might have in
> mind I think it would be helpful in prioritizing and developing a real
> plan.  We accomplished a lot last year, and I think we can accomplish more
> this year if we're all on the same page.
>
> Thanks and best wishes for the year ahead,
>
> --
> Randy Snow
>
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